Topps - better quality than online, or just shop costs?

[rcd1976]

Am doing my bathroom and it's going to be very tiny so thought I'd try to make it a bit classier with some natural stone tiles on floor and in shower.

Topps Tiles do a cappuccino marble that's quite nice but they won't come down under 40 quid a square metre for the 305x450ish mm ones. There are online places doing it for about 32-33 quid a sqm inc VAT. Has anyone ever used:
http://www.stonetrader.co.uk
http://www.stonesuperstore.co.uk
http://www.stonetilemarket.co.uk
Have got a couple of samples and they look fine, but should I worry about durability or cracking while cutting and drilling?

Topps warned me against buying natural stone on the internet, theirs better quality from deeper in the mountain etcetera. Is this just standard sales guff? Is the price difference because Topps have the cost of running shops? If those online places are dodg, where do pros go for natural stone tiles?

Ta,
Chris

 

[tpt]

complete and utter sales guff. There is some crap out there, but you'll get it online or in a shop, and believe me - topps sell it too, some of the trav i've seen them hawking recently beggars belief.

get a sample (you already have) and if that's fine go for it. if it arrives and its rubbish you have 7 days to return it - distance selling regs.

i'd be pointing you to my online shop but we dont have a capuccino marble a the mo.