may i know which one suitable for kitchen top?

yesterday the contractor install the median vitrified tile (made for china, AA grade, polished black color with gold and silver dot) for kitchen top which tile provided by the contractor...most the corner are broken and peel (not sure whether bad workmanship) and got scratches on tile...confirm is not tile malfunction coz the scratches is continous with another tile...

i told contrator, i cannot accept this job...i'm not yet use, already scratch, later i use broken tile and scratch it with knife, screw driver, etc.....no scratch at all, got also those fine line...but the scratches made by the contractor are quite deep with white color line...

may i know which type of tile really suitable for kitchen top? what is nano coating?

what i want is scratch resistance or not easy to scratch, heat resistance and watermark resistance?

How about granite, lumi quartz stone, synthetic marble stone, or marble?

This post has been edited by J1@l_ l_l l\l: Aug 31 2011, 02:48 AM

may i know is this homogenous tile?










i checked my sister's tile, the color on the side is same but mine is got 2 different color tone although is black...top look darker than the bottom...

i checked my tile box, is made from china, vitrified tile....

This post has been edited by xSean: Aug 31 2011, 10:14 AM

It's a matter of personal preference, but I would not recommend polished tiles for kitchen top, unless it's only for light use. Reason is that polished tiles will show up scratches easily. I'm using matt surfaced tiles for my wet kitchen top, and planning to put granite or quartz on my dry kitchen top.

Homogeneous means the same colour through the body of the tile, so your tile in the pictures above appear to be non-homogeneous.

yeah, i also got think...feel it scratch easily...

i found this from google...do u know what is this type of tile? look a bit polished and matte...



This post has been edited by xSean: Aug 31 2011, 03:32 PM

I need to come up with a decision soon between granite and quartz, but can't make up my mind and still hesitating between this two types of material for the kitchen top. Any comment and suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

From my limited knowledge
Homogeneous Tile = Porcelein Tile, The material are the same fron top to the bottom.
Full Bodied/Half Bodied = The top colour material are the same Full or only Half in to the tile body.

From your picture does not look like homogeneous.

why not ask the shop? They will able to provide more information. But from what know only China have black with Gold...
I also used the similar but didn't care about what tiles as long it not easilly break

Jo_da48, if want black colour i saw feruni have some series with black and white wave lines, and also golden dotted ones..look a bit like galaxy style. but i think the golden dotted ones price is like RM40 per piece. pengsan!

i just bought feruni 2x2 black with gold spot......rm22.xx/pcs

may i know where u bought it? is it a homogeneous tile?

is it this one u bought? http://www.feruni.com/product_bw_aludraBlack.asp

This post has been edited by xSean: Sep 9 2011, 03:22 AM

Personally like granite or marble with granite being the harder of the 2 materials.

You will notice light scratches if you use either of these materials but the can be polished off though I haven't found someone who can do it yet.

RM22 per 600x600mm for the Aludra Black is good price. I bought mine at RM23 per piece. I am using for my toilet counter tops.

just go for granite whenever possible. one of the best material for style, profiling, maintenance and durability.

u mean granite tiles?

slab-cut granite (custom size). there will be less joints.

eh aldura u guys got such a good price?!!! my spectrum white already dunno is 26 or 27 le..