Buying ceramic tiles is a "must" during the decoration process. Even if the whole house is covered with floors, there are always some spaces that need to be laid with ceramic tiles, such as kitchens, bathrooms and other places that are frequently used and prone to harbor dirt and evil, because laying ceramic tiles will make daily maintenance easier.
When most people decorate, they usually ask a decoration company to design a decoration plan. After the plan is finalized, the materials are purchased. The decoration company will tell you what size, color and style of tiles to buy based on your home's decoration style, paving area and other actual conditions. At this point, you have two options: one is to get information online by yourself and then go to a physical store to select tiles; the other is for the designer to take you to the selection.
If you are buying ceramic tiles by yourself, then at this time, most people, especially young people, will go online to do homework, supplement their ceramic tile knowledge, check out which ceramic tile brands are available, and see how others choose. After some inquiries, you have basically determined the ceramic tile requirements for your home - type, size, color, etc. The next step is to go to offline home furnishing stores and building materials markets to compare and select.
How to choose ceramic tiles? What issues should we pay attention to? Zhongtaojun summarized 5 points, keep it in mind and you can start immediately after reading it to buy good ceramic tiles!
Select a brand
When most people first choose ceramic tiles, the first thing they pay attention to is the brand. Currently, there are thousands of ceramic tile brands on the market. Generally, the industry will default to classify ceramic tile brands into first, second, third and fourth tier brands, top ten brands, etc. based on popularity, product quality, user reputation, etc. Here we divide the first, second, third and fourth tier brands according to their brand awareness.
First-tier brands: high reputation, everyone has heard of it more or less, brand premium is high, and the price is naturally more expensive; second-tier brands: have a certain popularity, product positioning is mid-to-high-end, with good quality, and the price is slightly higher; third-tier brands : The brand is less well-known and has been established for a shorter period of time than the first- and second-tier brands, but the quality is good and the price-performance ratio is good; the fourth-tier brand: It is completely unknown, the price is cheap, and the quality is hard to say.
For most people, second- and third-tier brands are the best choices, with reliable quality and high cost performance.
However, it should be noted that the above division is not absolute. Well-known first- and second-tier brands also have ordinary affordable products. First-tier brands cannot be directly put into "death row". Choosing ceramic tiles requires multiple comparisons and multiple considerations.
Select type
According to different classification standards, ceramic tiles can be divided into manyTypes, such as marble tiles, polished tiles, glazed tiles, matte tiles, antique tiles, etc. Zhongtaojun is here to briefly introduce some types of ceramic tiles that are often heard on the market.
Marble tiles: a type of tiles with realistic texture and color of natural marble; glazed tiles: there is a layer of transparent glaze on the surface of the tiles, which is hard and wear-resistant; antique tiles: a type of glazed tiles, which can create a classical and nostalgic atmosphere And non-slip and wear-resistant; matte bricks: non-glossy bricks, which can avoid light pollution but are relatively easy to get dirty; full-body bricks: the front and back sides have the same material and color, and are wear-resistant.
Due to space limitations, Zhongtaojun will not go into details here. If you are interested, you can check out the article "The most detailed ceramic tile classification manual, a must-have for "ceramic tile novices" | Ceramic Encyclopedia". Note that after understanding the types of ceramic tiles, you can work backwards to select the appropriate brand based on the type of ceramic tiles you need. For example, if you want to buy marble tiles, you can check which brands of marble tiles are good, and then filter them based on the second- and third-tier brands selected earlier.
Choose origin
There are imported and domestic ceramic tiles. If you choose an imported ceramic tile brand, you will basically filter out most brands. Zhongtaojun will focus on the domestic origin here.
The main domestic production areas of ceramic tiles are Guangdong, Shandong, Fujian, Jiangxi, and Sichuan. Among them, the most famous and most recognized product quality is Guangdong bricks. This is because Guangdong is one of the birthplaces of China's ceramic wall and floor tiles, with a huge annual output. It ranks first among all major production areas in terms of production scale, technical level, product support, corporate management, talent training, and brand management. Therefore, Guangdong bricks are highly recognized by people. If you want to save trouble, you can directly choose Guangdong bricks.
However, this does not mean that ceramic tiles produced in other places are not worth choosing. Each production area has its own representative brands, and the quality of the ceramic tiles of these brands is not necessarily worse than Guangdong bricks. As long as it is a reliable brand, you can choose directly regardless of the place of origin.
Choose a ceramic tile group/company
Many people may wonder, why do we need to choose a group/company after choosing a brand? This is because in the ceramic tile industry, many times brand ≠ group/company. Some brands may not be eye-catching, but the company they belong to is quite famous. In the ceramic tile industry, each ceramic tile group/company has brands with different positioning for high, middle and low grades. However, as long as the ceramic tiles are from the same group/company, even if the brands are different, they may be from the same industry.Factory made. In other words, if you buy ceramic tiles from second- and third-tier brands under the same group/company, their production technology and product quality will not be much worse than those from first-tier brands from the same group/company. Therefore, when choosing ceramic tiles, you can pay attention to such brands.
Choose ceramic tile quality parameters
The parameters of ceramic tiles determine the quality of ceramic tiles. The main parameters are size, water absorption, flatness, wear resistance, antifouling, flexural strength, anti-skid, etc. Understanding these professional knowledge in the field of product quality testing will be of great help to us in selecting ceramic tiles. Because in home decoration, the parameters of ceramic tiles used in different spaces may be different. For example, the bathroom needs tiles with strong slip resistance and low water absorption, the living room needs tiles with good wear resistance, and the kitchen needs tiles with strong stain resistance (for detailed tile parameters, please refer to "Professional Tile Quality Parameters, 90% of People Metropolitan Collection｜Ceramic Encyclopedia").
Normally, as long as the brand of ceramic tiles you choose is reliable, the basic parameters of these ceramic tiles are generally not too bad.
After reading the above 5 points, you can basically choose the tiles that are suitable for your home. If you still can't choose the right one or you have "choice phobia" and can't make a decision, then Zhongtao Jun has the last universal magic weapon, which is to choose what you like. As the saying goes, it's hard to buy a good idea. The house is decorated for you to live in. What you like is the most suitable.
Which brand of ceramic tiles did you use for your home decoration? Welcome to comment and share! If you have different opinions on the above content, you are also welcome to make complaints.
