Glass tiles are pieces of glass formed into consistent shapes. Glass was used in mosaics as early as 2500 BC, but it took until the 3rd Century BC before innovative artisans in Greece, Persia and India created glass tiles.Whereas clay tiles are dated as early as 8,000 BC, there were significant barriers to the development [...]

Right now we’re receiving a fair bit of email relating to the cloudy haze and appearance of porcelain tiles, especially those sourced from countries like China. Here’s one of the latest: Question: “We have had porcelain tiles laid and there is a very distinctive cloudy appearance all over the tiles. We have tried many tile [...]

We’ve talked about this wonder-product NanoScrub before but we thought it would be helpful to literally see it in action with a series of pictures. So, the following shows how it can successfully remove protective wax coatings from porcelain tiles – an increasingly common problem:

Here’s a question we received just the other day: “Hi, I have shiny black porcelain tiles in the kitchen which we have put a tile sealer on. We have the same porcelain tiles in our toilet with no sealer on. When I clean the toilet tiles they shine after just a mop however when I [...]