which one will you choose for a living and dining area of 500sft:

1) 2X2 tiles arround $3600,
2) Ipoh Pink broken marble $5200,
3) Ipoh Pink 2X2 marble $7500.

all include instalation and polish job for the marble.

For longer term maintenance, tiles will be easier, as marble will be relatively porous and tend to absorb spillage and colours easily, unless your contractor do another impregnator coating on top of the marble.

Just my 2 cents

At almost 50% more expensive, I think I rather choose tiles. Marble seems outdated anyway

The marble is cheap as already with installed and polishing. Where u get it ? Can pm me contact.

Marble, it won't go out date.

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Added on July 15, 2012, 8:25 amWhat tiles you get, for that price include installation don't look like good brand like Niro or grocera.


This post has been edited by weikee: Jul 15 2012, 08:25 AM

Tile usually more costly than marble.
Bear in mind, tiles do not need any maintenance and marble need to be polish after years.

That depend what tiles you get. And how often you see people polish marbles?

Also depend on wat marble, marble cost range from few ringgit to hundred ringgit per sqft. Example: commercial grade creamma mafill cost rm 25/sqft, not include installation

This post has been edited by skng03: Jul 15 2012, 11:21 AM

Marble usually are more costly!

I bought a second hand unit and am actually spending money to remove the pink broken marble which I felt looked kinda 70's. One man's meat is another man's poison I guess

Marble can have very big piece, can be very very costly. And need specialized skill people to install. you see some of the 5 stats hotel floor are so nice, and hardly need any repolish with the kind of traffic.

Stone marble ! Cooling and any Scratches nextime can repolished .

you r right, its a house brand tiles from Super Ceramic, made in China, $16 per piece.

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Added on July 15, 2012, 11:26 pmi get the quote from a marble factory at Simpang Pulai, Ipoh.

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Added on July 15, 2012, 11:34 pmi don't share the view that broken marble is outdated. however i agreed that 1 man's meat is another man's poison.

2X2 marble is always my favorite, but after much searching and went back to the factory to place deposit, they told me cannot get the price anymore... my cost rises for more than 1.5k, and when i search around for bathroom and kitchen tiles, i found a tiles which is cheap and nice too, hence the dilemma.

This post has been edited by orientaliew: Jul 15 2012, 11:34 PM

If budget allow maybe stretch and install marbles. Is nicer.

After install marble or tiles you can not avoid scratches totally, so be prepared. Its a floor after all. But marble has "coolong" effect.

i'd go for marbles if you tend to stay in that property for a long time. good thing about marbles is you can polish it after, lets say 5-10 years and it will look ass good as new.

Bro,

Is the marbles company name = ES Marble.

If not kindly PM me the contact. FYI i m looking for the pink marble as well but the latest pink
marble is not as good as last time. It has more grains than previous one.

I put in tiles for my living, dining area and store room.

Total area 587.5 sq ft.

I bought Feruni Garnet YE04NN 60x60cm tiles at RM11.99 each from Feruni directly at one of the HomeDec or some other show at PWTC.

184 tiles = RM2,286.16 (RM80 is for delivery). Inclusive of side skirting. Still have a few tiles left over for spare.

Experienced installer is really a must. They laid it all out with very narrow gaps and looks really nice.

At the end of the day, no more money for marble flooring. haha. My feet can feel the difference though; as phoenix69 said, marble has the cooling effect. Tiles are not so cooling.

This post has been edited by kamion: Jul 16 2012, 03:12 PM

I personally prefer marble. Tiles tend to be sticky very fast.

your Feruni tiles very cheap, cause i remember one of the tiles with the grain of travertine priced at more than $40 a piece and its looks exactly like Iranian beige marble.
how much the installation cost you?