With the best will in the world, you pay for what you get. If you pay a low price, you're generally going to get a fairly poor tile. The quality issues include size calibration, thickness of glaze, qualityof glaze/print and whether it goes to the edge of the tile.
When you say 50p per tile, the actual price depends on the tile size so it's difficult to compare price. This is a trick usually used by places like B&Q to make them look cheap when in actual fact they aren't. Always look at the price per square metre.
Avoid Topps/B&Q and similar shops and go to an independent retailer who will be able to offer you professional advice but may also have some proper bargains/genuine discounts on end of line product rather than just selling cheap and nasty tiles cheaply. I don't really know the area where you live but look in the yellow pages, ring round a few and ask them if they have any end of line/discontinued stock they're selling off.
do as Nelly says
independent retailer .....
an the rule is by the square metre.......
*get a fairly poor tile. The quality issues include size calibration, thickness of glaze, qualityof glaze/print and whether it goes to the edge of the tile*
+ the widths/thickness can be all different ..
so with a thinbed mud mix you can get the odd tile shallower than the rest , lol
the cheaper /nastier tiles can be a pig to cut /lay for a diyer...
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