Modern Wood Porcelain Tiles

Antique Wood Porcelain Tiles

wood porcelain tiles

Porcelain wood tiles are now offered in two stunning designs “Modern” and “Antique”. Modern has a grained surface that you can really feel and see and is offered in a range of wood colour shades. Antique is so unbelievably real looking, you can see knots and grains in wood colours that look like they have aged with the course of time. Please contact us for real photos and samples 01279 306309

wood effect porcelain tiles

Rayner Italian tiles provide fine tile & flooring products for our customers for many years. Our company is committed to find the latest trends in architectural products. The recent developments of the tile flooring industry have been incredible. Porcelain tiles have moved closer and closer towards natural products such as marble, travertine stone and hardwood. Porcelain wood tiles today can provide the look and feel of equivalent natural products without the concerns that are associated with many of them. The fastest growing flooring product has been the porcelain wood look tiles.

While the porcelain wood looks and feels convincingly like natural wood, they have some superior attributes, that makes them ideal for uses at homes or commercial buildings, for example they can be used outside in wet areas, they do not fade with sunlight and they are not damaged by heels and general wear and tear. In order to give you the best possible quality, selection & price, we have focused our business to offer the very best wood effect porcelain tiles.

We source the finest quality tile manufacturers and collect their wood look tile products into our website so that you can be sure you are choosing from the most complete and finest selection available on the market today, saving you all the hard work of endless searching, as ever there are cheaper ceramic wood tiles available but you will not get the same quality and long lasting finish that is achieved with porcelain wood tiles.

Wood effect porcelain tiles are becoming ever more popular, Available in many different wood colour shades options they provide the beautiful look of natural wood combined with all the benefits of porcelain tiles. Advantages over natural wood are the resistance to wear and damage, the ease of cleaning and with no maintenance it is a great flooring finish for hallways and kitchens. The long plank style tiles can be laid in a staggered fashion, which highlights the look of floorboards. We recently supplied the dark wood tiles to a residential project, the joints were grouted with a dark charcoal grey grout, the effect was stunning. The tile surface is grained with a light sheen, the staggered plank format provided a fairly non slip surface. The look of natural wood is stunning, enhanced by the performance of porcelain tiles you have the look which will last a lifetime. esives & Grouts

All our porcelain wood effect tiles can be supplied with adhesives and grouts to suit any application and environment, the visual look of wood tiles is enhanced by the grout colour, we can supply a wide range of coloured grouts. Our ranges of exclusive contemporary wood tiles are Italian made and are of the highest quality. All our porcelain wood tile ranges can be delivered directly to you on a nationwide service.cela
in Tiles Are Made

Types of Tiles

Most tiles made of clay or clay mixture are ceramic tiles. Within that classification, there are porcelain and non-porcelain tiles. Porcelain tile uses dust pressed under high pressure and other special techniques that differ from ceramic tiles. These methods make porcelain more durable, finer grained and less absorptive than its non-porcelain counterpart, normally called ceramic tile. Porcelain tile starts with a combination of quartz or silica, clay and feldspar or flint. The clay contains a minimal amount of impurities and has an ample amount of kaolinite. The major difference is the water absorbing ability when finished. It must be less than 0.5 percent.

Crushing

The manufacturers select the combination of the primary ingredients and use the proportions they need for the green, unfired mixtures to get the qualities they want in the final product. The materials are crushed using several machines. The jaw crusher has metal jaws which swing to crush the bigger pieces. Those pieces then go to a hammer mill that reduces them to less than 0.1 inch by pounding them with a succession of moving steel hammers. The final grinding stage uses the ball mill that grinds the particles inside a rotating cylinder.

Washing

While the machines crush most of the rocks finely, it doesn't do them all or remove impurities. In order to remove larger pieces and undersized pieces, the material gets a shaking. The ground rocks are put on a series of sloped screens which mechanically vibrate to shake the smaller particles out and leave the larger ones on the screens. Other mixers remove any excess iron from the dry powder.

Forming

The most accepted method for creating porcelain tile from the crushed material is pressing. The machine presses and shapes the tile into flexible molds or rigid die. There are uniaxial pressers that create pressure from one direction or isostaic pressers that keep the pressure equal on all sides.

Bisque Firing and Glaze

Bisque firing occurs first if the porcelain is to receive a glaze. It fires the porcelain at lower temperature and vaporizes the contaminants. It also reduces any shrinkage later. The next step involves the application of a glaze, which is normally a combination of silica, alumina and calcia. For a matte glaze, the silica is decreased and the alumina increased. If the porcelain is unglazed, the manufacturer omits these steps.

Final Firing

The porcelain then travels through a long tunnel kiln. There are temperature zones throughout so that it first preheats the ceramic tile and then moves it to the main firing area where it burns out impurities and the materials bond. The last area of the kiln is the area where the tile cools before it's packaged.

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