When choosing your floor tiles for home, it is worth while making the decision if you are intending to get a professional tiler in or are going to do it yourself. Even if your room is large, and it may look quite straightforward, check doorways and other other areas around the edge of your room, obstacles such as pipes that may be coming up for radiators or, architrave around doors all need to be thought of.
There are different ways to get around such a problem as skirtings or architraves when tileing your floor, one is you can take them off, and replace or renew them, much easier from a tiling perspective, but obviously more expensive, and then the decorating. Or you can cut the tiles to fit around the architraves, this is possible and most professional tilers are used to doing this, but it is much more tricky for a DIY person. There are also tools that you can use to cut the bottom of the architrave off, this is a good way to do it as you can slide the floor tile underneath the cut piece of architrave making it less important to get an accurate and good quality cut, just make sure you dont take too much off and leave a large gap to fill!
These methods, whether a DIY or professional tiler, are so much easier to do with a ceramic tile over a porcelain tile. Porcelain tiles are often a larger format, and more durable. But to achieve this they are much harder, and normally thicker than a ceramic tile. All well and good, but, just be aware that the cutting and drilling of porcelain tiles is considerably harder, and will most likely require a professional manual cutter such as Rubi or a small electric cutter, and drill bits can be used and burnt up if the correct bits and styles are not used. These tools are available from Tileclick.
