porcelain tiles .... how hard wearing are they?

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we used to have ceramic tiles which chipped every time we dropped a plate etc.

the man in the tile shop said to get porcelain cos they are virtually unchippable. now is he just trying to sell me the tiles and speeling nonsense or is this actually true?

btw i think i just made a couple of words up.

on the floor? very hard on the feet and everything will break when dropped. need frequent cleaning. not for me.

there are some very nice laminates around, not funny plastic shiny ones and they're water resistant. b&q have lots. or a wooden floor?

much more hard wearing than ceramic and if you do somehow manage to chip one then it should be the same colour all the way through (unlike ceramic).

We have tiles in the kitchen (not sure which type) and I would never have tiles again. They keep breaking and because we have electric underfloor heating (an absolute necessity with tiled floors) the grout and adhesive keeps breaking down and the tiles move about. At the moment we have one patch which we have to walk across constantly which is all cracked and broken and moving about and I hate it. Apparently we need some sort of specialist flexible grout but the people who laid the floor apparently didn't know this.
We are thinking of getting the whole lot taken up and replaced with wood/wood effect flooring.

I don't understand the attraction of tiles. Very hard, very cold, break things

cos they are more hard wearing and don't stain as much as wood, laminate, lino etc.

does lino stain easily?

i've had laminate (grey slate) for nearly 3 years and it def doesn't stain, doesn't need cleaning all the time and looks really good.

vinyl stains i think, but not proper lino. that's what i origianlly wanted but couldn't afford. glad now, the laminate really is good.

we used to have lino. i knocked over a can of tomatoes and never got the stain out

we also have laminate and proper parquet flooring which has millions of scratches in it.