Clearance terrazzo look tiles
The speckled chip look, as a porcelain tile rather than a poured floor. All the pattern, none of the grinding, curing and sealing that real terrazzo involves.
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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 terrazzo look tiles: what actually matters
Terrazzo is the pattern most likely to show a visible repeat
A scattered chip pattern looks random, which is exactly why the eye is so good at spotting when it is not. If a range has only a handful of printed faces, the same distinctive chip cluster reappears across the floor and the illusion collapses. It matters far more here than on a plain colour. Dry lay a decent patch before committing to a large area.
Chip scale changes the room more than the colour does
A fine, dense chip reads almost as a solid speckled colour from standing height and suits a large floor without becoming busy. A large, bold chip reads as pattern and is usually better used on a smaller area: a splashback, a powder room, a feature wall. Judging this from a close-up product photo is how people end up with a very loud living room.
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.