In dealing with today's demands for living, it is often a major consideration to get the floor finishing right!
There are an abundance of wooden, ceramic, stone, vinyl carpets etc etc to choose from, and ultimately we all want good value for money (cheap to most people), stylish, and durable. With technology advancing some carpets are really improving in being more durable for floors, and some vinyl tiles such as Amtico look great and more durable, but having use Amtico in the past, and been really please with how they look, but with a dog and two little ones, at main access points such as the back door, whilst the appearance wasn't really effected - the surface did get scratched.
So to get what we really wanted, we went back to ceramic, porcelain or stone. One of the best ranges not only in styles, but in price we found on the Tileclick Web Site www.tileclick.co.uk. We went to their floor tile range of tiles pretty easily and had a really good look around. We were able to get a pretty good idea of what was available just from the images. We ordered two lots of samples, 3 tiles per sample order that only cost £4.99 inc vat, which were delivered by a courier company a couple of days later.
We were then able to lay the sample floor tiles out on the floor of our kitchen and hallway, and then through to the bathroom. One advantage we found that this gave us was we could leave them trough the day and night and really get a good perspective of their appearance in natural light and artificial light, and one of the floor tiles really showed up differently in different light.
We moved all the floor tiles around into different parts of the room to get the best variation of light shadings within the room, and two days later were ready to make our choice.
Back to the web and to tileclick's website, which I must say is probably one of the best website i have actually purchased from - easy to use, great selection of floor tiles, aswell as bathroom tiles, kitchen tiles, tiles by designers such as Laura Ashley and Wayne Hemingway that I didnt even know existed. 5 minutes later we had bought and paid for our tiles, and 3 days later they were here. We are just waiting for the kithcen fitters to arrive, and cant wait to get the job done.
