By chance does anyone have any slate tile floors in their house

[Homerboy]

Looking to put some 12" slate tile into our back room. But I have some general questions on installation, maintenance and "feel" of the tile.

If anyone has it installed, or has installed it, let me know please.
Thanks!

 

[ViviTheMage]

woah! This is what I want to get in my kitchen....love the look of slate, and it does not feel to bad to walk on with bare feet.

 

[Homerboy]

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
woah! This is what I want to get in my kitchen....love the look of slate, and it does not feel to bad to walk on with bare feet.

Exactly. I love it too. The pieces I was looking at just seemed SO "bumpy" and uneven I was worried about the "feel" and the clean up (we got unglazed 1" hex tile in our bathroom, per my design and my wife is going to shoot me as its apparently difficult to clean as it tears through mops and such)

This would be used in a 17x15' that was the TV/family room and back entry way into the house.

 

[vi edit]

It's a major PITA to clean. Plus it's not an even surface so getting some objects to sit on it stable can be a burden.

FWIW, my Father does tile and slate flooring for side jobs (full time mason). He just finished up a 1000 sq/ft slate job (entire main living area of a home) and he wouldn't put it in his house if somebody paid him to do it.

Mostly because of the cleaning problem.

 

[Homerboy]

Originally posted by: vi edit
It's a major PITA to clean. Plus it's not an even surface so getting some objects to sit on it stable can be a burden.

FWIW, my Father does tile and slate flooring for side jobs (full time mason). He just finished up a 1000 sq/ft slate job (entire main living area of a home) and he wouldn't put it in his house if somebody paid him to do it.

Mostly because of the cleaning problem.

Hmmm good point(s) on the unevenness of it. I didn't think of that. Especially with chairs, coffee tables, etc etc in the room. Crap. I had a feeling cleaning would be a bitch, but I dont see why a vacuum/broom can't do the job.

Maybe I need to rethink.

 

[amdskip]

Cleaning would have to be done by hand with a rag and down on your hands and knees. I think it looks cool but it's not practical thus the reason I'm laying ceramic tile at my place.

 

[ViviTheMage]

Originally posted by: Homerboy

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
woah! This is what I want to get in my kitchen....love the look of slate, and it does not feel to bad to walk on with bare feet.

Exactly. I love it too. The pieces I was looking at just seemed SO "bumpy" and uneven I was worried about the "feel" and the clean up (we got unglazed 1" hex tile in our bathroom, per my design and my wife is going to shoot me as its apparently difficult to clean as it tears through mops and such)

This would be used in a 17x15' that was the TV/family room and back entry way into the house.

In the midwest we have a place called the Tile Shop and they had a lot of displays set up so we could walk on it and see how it looked installed. The stuff we looked at was not bumpy or awkward looking by any means. Some installers may be shotty, and it might be angled pretty bad, I have seen that done on home improvement shows, unappealing imo, but if installed correctly it looks 'sick' !


Let em add I live in a Condo, so our kitchen is not 1000square feet by any means, maybe 100, so cleaning is not an issue.

 

[BurnItDwn]

What you want is 70s shag carpeting. Everybody loves shag carpet.

 

[iamwiz82]

In my working with slate tile I have found it to be very brittle.

 

[Homerboy]

Originally posted by: amdskip
Cleaning would have to be done by hand with a rag and down on your hands and knees. I think it looks cool but it's not practical thus the reason I'm laying ceramic tile at my place.

Yeah I have a wife That's exactly what she has to do now in the aforementioned bathroom and she curses my name when she does it.

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage

Originally posted by: Homerboy

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
woah! This is what I want to get in my kitchen....love the look of slate, and it does not feel to bad to walk on with bare feet.

Exactly. I love it too. The pieces I was looking at just seemed SO "bumpy" and uneven I was worried about the "feel" and the clean up (we got unglazed 1" hex tile in our bathroom, per my design and my wife is going to shoot me as its apparently difficult to clean as it tears through mops and such)

This would be used in a 17x15' that was the TV/family room and back entry way into the house.

In the midwest we have a place called the Tile Shop and they had a lot of displays set up so we could walk on it and see how it looked installed. The stuff we looked at was not bumpy or awkward looking by any means. Some installers may be shotty, and it might be angled pretty bad, I have seen that done on home improvement shows, unappealing imo, but if installed correctly it looks 'sick' !


Let em add I live in a Condo, so our kitchen is not 1000square feet by any means, maybe 100, so cleaning is not an issue.

not that they would ever purposefully hand-pick the tile on display for the best look and feel possible....

 

[Homerboy]

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage

Originally posted by: Homerboy

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
woah! This is what I want to get in my kitchen....love the look of slate, and it does not feel to bad to walk on with bare feet.

Exactly. I love it too. The pieces I was looking at just seemed SO "bumpy" and uneven I was worried about the "feel" and the clean up (we got unglazed 1" hex tile in our bathroom, per my design and my wife is going to shoot me as its apparently difficult to clean as it tears through mops and such)

This would be used in a 17x15' that was the TV/family room and back entry way into the house.

In the midwest we have a place called the Tile Shop and they had a lot of displays set up so we could walk on it and see how it looked installed. The stuff we looked at was not bumpy or awkward looking by any means. Some installers may be shotty, and it might be angled pretty bad, I have seen that done on home improvement shows, unappealing imo, but if installed correctly it looks 'sick' !

The stuff I was looking at the other day had varying thicknesses around the edges. Maybe there are finer and rougher versions of slate too (would make sense).

I'll have to do more research I guess.

FYI I'd be installing.


Let em add I live in a Condo, so our kitchen is not 1000square feet by any means, maybe 100, so cleaning is not an issue.