Neshada Tile and Stone in Mississauga and Barrie

Porcelain is the workhorse of any tile job, and it is what most of the Neshada range is. It is denser and less porous than ceramic, which is why it holds up on floors, in wet areas, and in commercial spaces where ceramic would wear or absorb water. The Neshada porcelain line spans the looks people actually ask for: marble visuals, stone and concrete visuals, wood plank visuals, and clean solid colours.

• Marble looks. Porcelain that carries the veining of natural marble without the sealing, staining and softness that come with the real stone. This is how you get a marble bathroom floor that survives a family. Neshada's marble oriented series, including its Statuario and Thassos style looks, sit here.
• Stone and concrete looks. Matte, understated surfaces for a modern bathroom or an open living space, where the point is texture rather than pattern.
• Wood looks. Plank format porcelain that reads as hardwood but goes where hardwood cannot: showers, entryways, over in-floor heat. If you want the look of wood in a wet or below grade room, this is the honest answer.
• Solid colours and decorative series. Flat fields for a full wall, plus decorative and patterned series such as the Erika Decor line for feature areas.

We are not printing the size or finish of any individual series on this page, because those change by production run and a wrong number on a website is worse than no number. Tell us the room and we will pull the actual tile and read you the size, the finish, and the rating printed on the box.

Decision: bathroom floor, shower, or any wet area, porcelain is the correct material and Neshada's marble and stone looks cover most of what people want. See the full porcelain floor and wall category to compare against other brands.

Mosaic is where a kitchen backsplash or a shower niche stops being a surface and becomes a detail. Small format tile on a mesh backed sheet lets you run a feature that a large format tile physically cannot, around a curved wall, into a niche, as a border. Neshada's mosaic line is built for exactly this: backsplashes, feature walls, and accent bands.

The catch with mosaic is that it is more work to install, not less. More grout lines, more edges, more places for a rushed install to show. A backsplash is at eye level, directly behind your stove, lit from under the cabinets. Every flaw is on display at close range for the life of the kitchen. This is the single strongest argument for who holds the trowel.

Decision: kitchen backsplash, shower niche, or a feature band, mosaic earns its place. Full floor or a large wall field, use porcelain and save the mosaic for the accent. Browse the full mosaic range to see formats side by side.

This is the question that decides where a tile can go, and most people never get a straight answer on it. Porcelain is fired denser and absorbs far less water than ceramic. That makes it the material for floors, showers, and anywhere that gets wet or takes traffic. Ceramic is lighter and easier to cut, which suits a dry wall application, but it does not belong on a busy floor.

Neshada's main line is porcelain, which is why it works for the floor and wet area jobs most people are shopping for. If your project is a dry accent wall, ceramic may be the smarter spend, and we carry it. See ceramic wall tile.

In simple terms: floors and wet areas want porcelain. Dry accent walls can take ceramic. A subway tile backsplash should be porcelain or ceramic, never a soft wall only tile pretending to be one.

Any store can hand you a box of tile. The question worth asking is who sets it, because tile is where a bad install shows forever. A lippage edge you can feel with a bare foot, a grout line that wanders, a backsplash that is a quarter inch out of level against the upper cabinets. None of that is the tile's fault, and all of it is permanent.

Squarefoot Flooring runs its own installation crews, residential and commercial, on staff full time. We are not booking a subcontractor and hoping. Before the first tile goes down, that crew checks the substrate, confirms the right setting material and membrane for a wet area, and plans the layout so the cut tiles land where you will not stare at them. For showers and wet rooms that means the correct tile setting materials and waterproofing, not whatever is on the shelf.

We install across Toronto, Mississauga, Etobicoke, Brampton, Port Credit, Erin Mills, Streetsville, Meadowvale and Cooksville from the Mississauga store, and across Barrie, Innisfil, Angus, Orillia, Collingwood, Midland and Simcoe County from the Barrie store. Lead time in the Greater Toronto Area runs about two weeks. Barrie and cottage country jobs from May through September book eight to twelve weeks ahead.

See tile installation, and if the floor has heat underneath it, look at in-floor heating membrane systems before you finalize the order.

Neshada runs a large number of series, and any individual series can change in size, finish, or availability between production runs. We work from the current stock and the box in front of us, not from an archived web listing. If you are matching an existing Neshada tile, bring a spare piece or a photo of the box label. That is faster and far more reliable than a series name alone, because two runs of the same series can vary in shade.

Take a full sheet home, not a chip. Put it on the actual wall or floor, under the light that room actually gets, at the hour you are actually in it. A marble look porcelain that reads bright white under store lighting can read grey against a north facing bathroom window. No photograph solves that, including ours, and a whole sheet tells you far more than a single tile about how the pattern repeats.

Neshada porcelain floor and wall tile and mosaic backsplash tile are on display at both Squarefoot Flooring stores. Bring your room measurements, a note of whether the area is wet or dry, and a photo of the space in daylight.

Mississauga. 700 Dundas St E, Unit 3-4, L4Y 3Y5. Call 905-277-2227. Monday to Friday 9 to 6, Saturday 10 to 5, closed Sunday.

Barrie. 112 Saunders Rd, Units 1-4, L4N 9A8. Call 705-726-2272. Monday, Wednesday and Friday 9 to 6, Tuesday and Thursday 9 to 5, Saturday 10 to 5, closed Sunday.

Walk in with a room plan and walk out with tile you have seen under real light and an install crew that answers to us. Book a store visit, or call and we will tell you in five minutes whether a Neshada porcelain or mosaic is right for your project, including when it is not.