Giant tiles laying - only a few can do it!

Very few tile layers know today the correct installation techniques and tricks to lay large format tiles without damaging them, those tiles that have dimensions from a minimum of 1 meter by 3 meters by 6 mm or more. I do not mean Kerlite, the 3 mm one which now seems to be a little outdated.

Tilers and contractors of construction indulge themselves to call them in the most different ways

Giant tiles

Large format tiles

Large-format or giant plates

Extra large tiles

and so on and so forth.

The fact remains that today this material is on the market, producing companies promote it and architects include it in their projects, but the drama remains on finding installers who can place them seriously with guaranteed results.

Being a new product, few have had the opportunity to learn how to lay it and almost nobody has the suitable tile cutters for cutting and handling these huge and very expensive tiles.

Those who currently pose with the famous “Italian technique”, use an angle grinder as a tile cutter to do everything, including damaging tiles.

With this type of tile which can cost more than 500 dollars each, one is not allowed to play and if you don't rely on a professional and experienced tile layer it's easy to throw hundreds of dollars from the window.

The improvised tile layer says that the tile is defective or impossible to cut but that's not the truth.

Anyway, this pose is (finally) making a selection between Sunday tilers and the serious ones.

The producers, on their hand, are attempting to rapidly train layers using the right tile cutters, but we all know this is a process that takes time. Let's wait and see.

What is certain is that in terms of aesthetics and practicality, these giants tiles are changing the world of architecture and indirectly also the world of tile-laying, which is our own.