Double loading porcelain floor tiles, generally known as Double Loading.
Tiles, is an upgrade to the glazed porcelain tile in terms of the durability and crazing resistance, although full body porcelain tiles and industrial tiles can be considered in the higher durable category than double loading tiles..
Double loading tiles have higher durability because of the technique used in its manufacturing. The double loading tiles have two layers of clay. The base layer is the basic colour and the second upper layer consists of the coloured raw materials, which are provided to the feeder (the machine before the tiles are given shaped in a hydraulic press). The colour depth is almost 4.5mm, i.e. 50% of tiles thickness. The manufacturing machine of double loading tiles provide the random designs of the colours and thus every tile manufactured is unique in itself. They look really beautiful on flooring and provide higher durability levels. The water absorption with Double loading porcelain tiles are less than 0.2%.
Double loading vitrified tiles are scratch and frost resistance, the colour and texture of vitrified tiles last a life long and never fade away with time.
Product Overview
Full body vitrified tiles:
As described above, full body vitrified tiles have higher durability and wear resistance than any other tiles. This is mainly because of the uniform colour and design throughout the thickness of tiles body. The colour pigment is in the entire body (thickness) of the tiles. Any damage or scratch is not visible, because of uniform design throughout the thickness of tiles body and gives an ideal choice for high traffic zones, but the production process considerably increases the cost. On other hand uniform designs throughout the body gives the design constraints. That’s why designs in this class of tiles are mainly simple and in one colour. These tiles are best suitable for parking places, garages, terraces/balconies, and for all commercial purposes.
Matt porcelain glazed tiles / glazed vitrified tiles (GVT) :
These are glazed surfaced vitrified tiles. They offer a vast variety of designs, art work and surface textures like wood grain, bamboo, slate or stone. This tile is now printed through digital printing technology.
Polished porcelain glazed tiles / polished glazed vitrified tiles (PGVT) :
They are similar to the GVT tiles in their glossy form, so they have a very glossy surface finish and overall a good finish.
Tiles with different surface finish
Below is the description of composite materials, which are nowadays very modern and trendy. These are alternatives to natural stones, and need zero maintenance after installation.
These composites are environmentally friendly and inexpensive, too. Below are the overviews….