Clearance natural stone tiles
Quarried stone, not a printed look-alike. Travertine, limestone, marble and granite, sold at clearance because the lot is finite rather than because there is anything wrong with it.
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Clearance stock moves and this one has sold through. New lines land weekly, and the guidance below still applies whenever it comes back.
Buying natural stone tiles: what actually matters
Real stone needs sealing, and the sealing is not optional
Every natural stone on this page is porous to some degree. Travertine and limestone are the most absorbent, marble less so, granite least. Unsealed stone in a kitchen will take a stain from oil or wine that no amount of scrubbing removes, because the stain is inside the material rather than on it. Seal before grouting as well as after: grout haze on unsealed stone is genuinely difficult to get back off. Budget for resealing every few years in wet or high-traffic areas.
Variation is the point, and it means you cannot judge it from one photo
Two pallets of the same limestone from the same quarry will not match, because they are rock and not a manufactured product. Fill, veining and colour shift across a lot. This is why stone is specified with the whole quantity bought at once from the same block run, and it is doubly true on clearance stock where there is no going back for more. Order the entire area in one purchase.
Acid cleaners will destroy it
Anything acidic etches calcium-based stone, which is travertine, limestone and marble. That includes most supermarket bathroom cleaners, vinegar, lemon and many grout haze removers. The damage is a dull patch where the surface has dissolved, and it does not polish out easily. Use a pH-neutral stone cleaner and tell whoever cleans the house.
How much to over-order, and why 10% is usually the wrong number
Ten per cent is the figure everyone repeats and it is only right for a simple rectangular room laid square with a large format tile. Straight lay in a plain room runs closer to 7 to 10%. A diagonal or herringbone lay wastes far more on the perimeter cuts, so 15 to 20% is realistic. Small formats and mosaics waste more again as a proportion. Rooms with lots of edges, a hob, a niche, a stepped floor, push it up. Because this stock does not come back, round up to the next whole box and then add one more: a spare box costs less than the tile and stops a single cracked tile in year three becoming a whole new floor.
Why this stock is cheap, and what the actual catch is
Clearance tiles are not seconds. Everything here is first grade. It is cheap because it is finite: a line an importer is clearing, a colourway a manufacturer has stopped making, or the tail of a container that nobody wants to keep warehousing. The catch is not quality, it is that you cannot get more. On a normal tile you can go back in six weeks for another two boxes. Here you cannot, so the quantity you order is the quantity you will ever have.