Kitchen floor tiles.. Matching services?

philstanbridge · 28 Jan 2013 at 15:08

I'm desperately trying to find a match to our kitchen floor tiles. I've been told by the store we got them 5 years ago that they are discontinued. Even though the guy couldn't tell us what they were called he said that he thought he remembered them and they are no longer stocked/supplied or manufactured. So where does that leave us? We only need 3 tiles at most and we can't justify a complete new floor. We've tried the usual suspects plus some tile clearance places. I've also had a look online to see if there are matching services but most of these are for bespoke jobs and not a few offcuts.

GinG · 28 Jan 2013 at 16:31

Do you live in a new build (or what was)?
Have you any pictures of said tiles?

Martytoon · 28 Jan 2013 at 17:24

A bit of a long shot, but you could try posting a wanted add on Freecycle. (If you haven't used it before its a method of trying to keep stuff out of landfill - so rather than taking unwanted stuff to the local dump, it gets offered on Freecycle - just google Freecycle

I mention it because last year I was clearing garage out and came across 12 ceramic floor tiles. I Freecycled them and the were taken by a bloke in a similar position to yourself.

tom_e · 28 Jan 2013 at 17:28

Not much use to you now, but as a tip for anyone else buying tiles this is why you always buy extra and stash them away.

philstanbridge · 28 Jan 2013 at 18:23

GinG said:
Do you live in a new build (or what was)?
Have you any pictures of said tiles?

Yep it is a newish build. 10 years old now. The thing is, we are having a new kitchen but we've been quoted a silly price for a new tiled floor, and we like what we've already got. So we are keeping it. We presumed the tiles went up to the wall, but they don't in one place. Typical that the place is where we are moving units around, so a gap will show. We only need 3 or so. We'll have to comprimise as best we can otherwise but I think it will be a disaster.

Not the best photo I have but its' the only one to hand at the moment.

philstanbridge · 28 Jan 2013 at 18:24

tom_e said:
Not much use to you now, but as a tip for anyone else buying tiles this is why you always buy extra and stash them away.

I know. It's typical isn't it. The guys that did these also stuck them straight on to the concrete which is wrong apparently.

The_blue · 28 Jan 2013 at 18:26

Email you photo to the indie places. We have quite a few round here including the very helpful Croc-a-tile

philstanbridge · 28 Jan 2013 at 19:37

The_blue said:
Email you photo to the indie places. We have quite a few round here including the very helpful Croc-a-tile

I popped in to the croc-a-tile at the weekend

bazaarboy · 28 Jan 2013 at 19:46

it looks like an old Porcelanosa style, usually sold in large quantities to house building firms
take a good photo and email to Porcelanosa, they might be able to ID it

edit: can you carefully remove 3 existing tiles to cover the newly formed gap?