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stronger product but again that's assuming that we're talking about a product that is certified porcelain and not just a product that's being called a porcelain but doesn't actually meet those requirements so do you need a porcelain tile for your home no generally not if you find a ceramic that you absolutely love there's no reason for you to rule it out strictly because it's a ceramic because a lot of the ceramic products are so much better than what they were 20 years ago and if you go into a store and you're looking at these racks where you have all the cards that you can flip through they'll tell you right on there if they're approved for flooring or if they're approved only for walls and as long as it's showing that it's approved for residential floors you can have complete confidence that installed correctly that's going to do what you need it to do so if you fall in love with ceramic go for it don't be afraid that you are going to have more issues with it because realistically in today's products you're not likely to see the real strong benefits of the porcelain over the ceramic until you start putting in them in specific environments maybe that's high level commercial traffic environments or maybe it's a situation where you wanted to put it outside and that moisture absorption can help protect that product from ever cracking if there was to be freezing temperatures with a lot of moisture in the air that is something that can theoretically happen but those are kind of Off the Wall circumstances so as long as we're talking about putting it in your house find something that you like make sure it's approved for the area that you want to put it on and then go for it and like I said most of that information is going to be provided to you right on the displays so let's take a look at some of that so here we have a product from Daltile and like always I'm not being paid by Daltile I have no Partnerships with them no benefits of any kind I'm just using this as an example for you guys because it does meet the specifications of what we were

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talking about with a porcelain tile but this product here is called trellis Oak and I actually have this product in my own home in a bathroom you can see it installed if you want to go check out one of my other videos that I did where I share my small bathroom remodel I actually have this lattice Mosaic in a shower floor with the larger wood planks in the main part of the bathroom floor and the color that I used was actually Amber I love this product but if we look right here we actually will see the symbol that we want and it's going to be the word certified porcelain I will be shaped like a tile laid on a diagonal and then right underneath it it's going to say 5% or less water absorption so that's the little symbol here that we are looking for for a certified porcelain and if it's really important to you that you know for sure that's what you're getting then look to see this because just because somebody's telling you that a tile is a porcelain doesn't mean that it meets this standard for them to be able to actually put that on here and then if we look at these boards generally they're going to have all the other information that we need they're going to tell us right on here what's the applications that these are supposed to be used for so it'll tell us if it's designed to be put on a floor or if it's a tile that's only designed to be put on a wall because it just doesn't have the strength to be walked on product and you know there are some that are designed as just strictly wall tiles you will find most products that are strictly a wall tile will be a ceramic even if they have a coordinating floor tile that's a porcelain they'll make the wall tile sometimes in different shapes and that same product same color same style will be offered as a wall tile in a ceramic when the floor was a porcelain had an addition to that you're going to have some other characteristics of the product that talk about scratch resistance hardness slip resistance a lot of things that are measured in technical terms where you're not going to really know what they mean nor should you need to I would say it probably the one that's the most common might be the slip resistance if you're putting it in a wet area but just know even products with a lot of texture when they get wet you can easily still hydroplane on them so if that's a concern to you make sure you've got your bath mats and things like that in those wet areas so that you don't risk yourself slipping because even the products that feel rough to the touch can be slick when wet so as I mentioned before the technology and both the porcelains and the Ceramics has dramatically improved over the years and in many cases we now have ceramics that not only are much better than the Ceramics of 10 years ago but a lot of these Ceramics are actually legs beyond what porcelains were 10 to 15 years ago when we start talking at least the kind of Entry by tilesmistri.com.

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hey YouTube it's Robert back with another video for you and in today's video we're going to be talking all about tile put more specifically the difference between ceramic and Porcelain this is one of those areas that people come into our store confused all the time about what the differences between porcelain and ceramic are and which they need and I find people have a lot of misinformation and they're under the wrong Impressions regarding what these products actually are so in today's video I'm really going to try and help cut through the Chase and really help you hopefully game that you have to have a particular type of product and that goes with every product category but today we're going to focus on tile and before we jump into the video I'm going to ask you guys to hit that like button so that YouTube knows you enjoyed it and they spread it to help other people as well if at the end of the video you have any questions hit those down in the comments for me below okay so in my thumbnails up right here I want you to go ahead and take a second tell me which one's the porcelain which one's the ceramic all right this one's the ceramic comment down below if you guessed it right so you can comment down below just by looking at the surface on these products if you're looking at a ceramic or if you're looking at a porcelain because the technology is on both are improving so rapidly the ability for the manufacturers to print the images on create textures use actual digital printing that gives a tremendous amount of depth to the products are improving really well so in terms of looking at the surface we can find great great options in both products what is a ceramic and what is a porcelain well both products are fired Clays so the way that we actually measure it in terms of certifying a tile as a US certified porcelain tile is based off of how much moisture it absorbs how dense the final product is so we start with clay in both instances we're firing them in a kiln to bake them in both instances but how finally the clay is ground and how high the temperatures and consistent to temperatures are in the baking process is what ends up giving us the density required for a tile to be certified by us standards as a porcelain and that's where we want to be really careful when we're looking at products that are being marketed as a porcelain but don't have that us certification that they are truly a porcelain tile by our standards not by the place that was making it cuz they can call it whatever they want but it doesn't mean that it actually meets our criteria for what is a porcelain tile that traditionally we've had some kind of basic ways that we could look and see the difference between ceramic and Porcelain by looking at the back of the tile because most of the time are Ceramics we're kind of this red or brown backed up body of the tile and then it's got the actual glaze on the surface porcelain tiles typically would have a white or a great back of the tile but they're still glazed so this is one of the areas that people have a misconception about I get people that come in constantly that say I need a porcelain because I want to make sure that if I chip it the color still in the body of the tile that is not the case with porcelain porcelain is still a glazed product unless it's specifically says that it is a through body or a color body tile as you can see the back of this product is not the same as the front and if you chip it you are not going to see the color on the top going through this product now even with our color body porcelains if it has a lot of variation or design on the on the top of the tile the overall predominant color may be baked through there but it doesn't mean that the design is literally going all the way through the body of the tile what it does mean is you have a very very dense product so it's going to be hard to chip it but there is not a product out there that isn't capable of shipping under just the right set of circumstances however most of these products installed properly it's harder to chip them than you think you're often times more likely to break what you dropped than you are to chip the tile so like I said the biggest difference between the Ceramics and the porcelains is the level of density that is attained in the finished product and one of the ways that you can actually test this on your own in person is if you grab two tiles that are the same size same dimensions they're the same thickness but one is actually heavier than by tilesmistri.com.

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what's up guys it's Misha with Winnie designs and today I'm going to talk to you guys about tile real quickly I'm not going to get too too far into the details about all the stuff in the temperatures they were cooked at and all that stuff I'm just going to talk about what we as a company see the trend going towards and what I actually think about the tiles we're going to be talking about ceramic tile and glass tile natural stone tile and my favorite it's going to be safe for the last and it's a porcelain pile and I'll tell you why it's the best and you should use it so starting out we have our ceramic tile this is your contractor grade tile it's super cheap if you just trying to let's say sell your house you want to prep your house for sale that's something you would do and you're not trying to invest too much money into it also if you're trying to save some money obviously for yourself that's something you would do if you're a landlord you trying to flip it just to put the you know that's something you would do it's you never put this on the floor it always should go only on the walls because it's very soft also if you get a chip in it you'll have that ugly orange color in the back of it and honestly we try to avoid installing that and if you are though there is ceramic tile that's white on the back so like I would suggest doing that and not the orange crap next we have our glass tile or glass tiles most commonly used on our you know accent strips and things like that for us as a store and as a bathroom Building Company there typically I guess you would use some like this on your backsplashes I think that's still kind of looks cool and that's still going to be around or like in the back of your Niche something like that but Mosaic strips are dying out I would never suggest you guys install any Mosaic strips in your showers moving forward because more and more people hate and more hate more the grout lines people hate grout I don't know what it is it's just the grout Lobby sucks and they're not doing good job of promoting their grout so basically more and more people are moving towards these large format tile 0 next we have natural stone tile natural stone tile is something that you'd install in your house if you don't really care about money you have a whole bunch of money and it's really cool for about 6 to 7 months until you have to start treating it you have to put another coat of sealant over it to make sure that it doesn't get stained typically you'll forget to do that typically you'll just say everything's going to be all right and then two to three years down the road you're going to start seeing like you're why it's white Carrera marble tile now it's starting to look a little bit orange and starting to look faded out especially if you put it on the floor around the toilet now if for some reason it looks yellow well maybe it's cuz the husband's been missing the toilet and it's been peeing on your tile but I guess what I'm trying to say it's it's very it's very annoying in the upkeep of this tile I don't suggest using it it's really not as pretty as it used to be compared to every other tile the porcelain tile weight the porcelain tile laps around this child and they will you know make it look as it comes out and then you know some of them doesn't look as good as the other parts or where in in comparison images in tile entire tile collections whatever so that leads me to also real quick way too expensive your natural stone tile is just way too expensive for the headache that you're going to get with it so stay away from that so that leads me to our best tile that's out there right now and it's your porcelain tiles these things are just straight up beautiful like I mean if you look at this image on this tile it's high gloss polished tile it's very durable there's something that if you ever installing tile outside you're only going to go with porcelain tile because it's so freaking dense that it doesn't the temperature changes

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do you like marble that you're picking up like a countertop so we're trying to avoid that so that is why we suggest for our customers and we suggest for you guys if you doing it like the price of it is really not that bad to really look into those high high HD porcelain tiles HD meaning like the image that they printed on it is just sick so if you guys found this video helpful you want more of videos like this and also you want to learn how to do bathrooms renovate bathrooms install tile things like that from start to finish a lot because we hustle all right so I hope you guys enjoyed that and stay safe so let me do a catchphrase at the end I'll keep right  by tiles mistri .com