Midgley West Quarzi Barge Mosaic Tile 2"x2" - Lappato

Quarzi Barge, 2" x 2", is small enough to follow a slope, which is why sheets like this keep turning up on shower floors and in wet rooms. The lappato finish is part polished, part matte, which gives you some shine without the full slip of a polish. Fired harder and denser than ceramic, porcelain copes with freeze and thaw as well, so a covered porch or a three season room is fair game. The colours in this line are not all rated the same: PEI runs 4 to 5 across them, so check the rating on the one you are actually buying before it goes anywhere busy. Work on 4.84 sq ft a box. That puts a 100 sq ft floor at 23 boxes with ten percent in hand, which is what you want for cuts and breakage. Expect a lot of grout with a sheet this small, so the grout colour will do as much to the finished look as the tile does. Come and see it in Mississauga or Barrie. Tile rarely looks the same in a store as it does on a phone screen.