Choosing Between Porcelain and Ceramic Flooring

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Choosing Between Porcelain and Ceramic Flooring
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When it comes to new floor installation for new
home constructions or even renovation, many
people have always used ceramic flooring and
porcelain flooring interchangeably however, you
only need to talk with experts from flooring
companies and they will show you a host of
differences between the two. If you take the
time to speak to many salespeople, they may not
be able to tell enough reasons to justify the
reason why porcelain flooring tiles are more
expensive however, if you got inkling on the
manufacturing process for both ceramic flooring
tiles and porcelain flooring you will begin to
see the differences in their features and
performance hence the price differences.
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What to choose If you are thinking about a low
stress new floor installation in a place that has
limited exposure to humidity, you will benefit
greatly from the superior features of porcelain
flooring tiles so that in this case it may look
like it is similar to ceramic flooring tiles.
However, when you need a material that requires
the kind of resistance that will not get with
ceramic tiles, porcelain flooring comes in handy
at such a time.
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When you go shopping in preparation for your new
floor installation, you will realize that
porcelain is basically categorized together with
materials that are generally referred to as
ceramics. However, that branding should not
deceive you into believing that whether you take
ceramic or porcelain the difference is the same
nothing could be further from the truth.
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While they may go under the same umbrella name
that is ceramics, porcelain flooring tiles
undergo a more elaborate and intensive finishing
process during its manufacture to give it a
superior edge they are taken through an intense
firing and boiling to make them more resistant to
water, moisture and humidity.
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Once the stringent process for manufacturing
porcelain flooring tiles has been completed, the
tiles are undertaken through a strict test to
determine the water resistance levels they have
achieved depending on the amount of water they
absorb during the boiling stage. If a tile
absorbs anything that is more than 0.5 of its
total weight, it fails the test and is labeled a
ceramic flooring tile otherwise it becomes a
porcelain flooring tile.
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Manufacturers will still use another test to
determine whether a tile falls under the ceramic
or porcelain category based on its purity levels.
Ceramic flooring tiles contain a slightly higher
level of impurities and there is very little that
can be done to make corrections during the
manufacturing process meanwhile, the clay,
quartz and feldspar that are an important
ingredient in porcelain flooring tiles allows
them to be fired to a whole 1400 degrees Celsius.
If you are going to choice between the two, you
can now make an informed decision.
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