Clearance stone and marble look tiles
Porcelain and ceramic tiles that read as stone or marble. Everything on this page is a look-alike, not the real material, which is a distinction we keep deliberately: if you want quarried stone, it has its own page.
20 lines available right now · every one finite · rarely restocked
Fossil Stone Pebble 450x450mm
437.4 m² left · while it lasts
Granite Gloss 200x400mm
178.5 m² left · while it lasts
Cape Hazel Flow Matt 300x800mm
871 m² left · while it lasts
Cape Hazel Matt 300x800mm
534.2 m² left · while it lasts
Cape Ash Matt 300x800mm
776.2 m² left · while it lasts
Maule Beige Matt 170x520mm
120 m² left · while it lasts
Maule Blanco Matt 170x520mm
350 m² left · while it lasts
Tundra Dark Grey Matt 300x600mm
370 m² left · while it lasts
Tundra Dark Grey Matt 75x600mm
87 m² left · while it lasts
Shell White Structured 600x600mm
689 m² left · while it lasts
Shell Antracita Matt 600x600mm
275 m² left · while it lasts
Shell Antracita Structured 600x600mm
335 m² left · while it lasts
Shell Grey Matt 600x600mm
216 m² left · while it lasts
Shell White Lappato 300x600mm
194 m² left · while it lasts
Shell White Matt 600x600mm
25 m² left · while it lasts
KMG Imperial Kmg Imperial Light Grey External 300x600mm
134 m² left · while it lasts
Nordik Stone Charcoal Lappato 296x596mm
403.7 m² left · while it lasts
Nordik Stone Grigio Lappato 296x596mm
602.9 m² left · while it lasts
Sorrento Olive Gloss 300x400mm
230.8 m² left · while it lasts
Stein Perla Matt 600x600mm
104 m² left · while it lasts
Buying stone and marble look tiles: what actually matters
Look-alike or the real thing? They behave completely differently
A marble-look porcelain is a fired ceramic body with the pattern printed and glazed on. It does not etch, it does not stain from a spilled glass of wine, it needs no sealing, and it will outlast real marble in a kitchen by decades. Real marble is porous, reacts to anything acidic, and needs sealing and resealing. Porcelain is the right answer for almost every domestic floor. Real stone is the right answer when you want the depth and variation that printing still cannot quite reach, and you are prepared to maintain it.
Check the number of face variations before you buy a patterned look
Stone and marble look tiles are printed, and a cheap range might only have four or six different printed faces in the whole run. Lay enough of it and the eye starts picking out the repeat, which is the single thing that makes a porcelain floor read as fake. Better ranges run to dozens of faces. If you are covering a large open area, lay a few square metres out dry first and look at it from standing height before you commit.
Batches and dye lots: the thing that catches people out
Tiles are fired in batches and no two batches are exactly the same shade. The difference is usually invisible in the box and obvious across a finished floor in daylight. Where a supplier has told us how many batches make up a line, the product page says so, and it says how big the largest single batch is: that is the largest area you can lay with no shade variation at all. Where they have not told us, the page says nothing rather than guessing. If you are laying one continuous floor, buy within one batch or accept that you are mixing, and if you are mixing, open several boxes at once and lay from all of them rather than box by box, so any variation reads as texture instead of a seam.
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.