subject: Advantage of Natural Marble Tiles and Slabs [print this page] Author: Anushakti Singh Author: Anushakti Singh
Nothing can at par the glory of natural stone but nowadays artificial tiles and slabs are also widely used as flooring material. However, artificial slabs and tiles are available in assorted colors and ranges but they havent challenged the grandeur of natural stones until now. This is due to numerous benefits of natural marble tiles and slabs over artificial substitute of them. Lets know more about the advantages of natural stone tiles and slabs -
Re-polish-able Though artificial tiles and slabs are made of using best technologies yet natural stone tiles and slabs are considered better, as natural stone flooring materials can be polished again and again if they fade but this is not possible with artificial flooring materials.
Unhealthy Aspects of Artificial Stones Artificial stone and slabs may look as exquisite as Natural Stones are but unlike natural stones, they are very unhealthy for humans. One would never get harmed physically if walking bare foot on natural stone tiles but if done same on vitrified flooring, you may suffer from numerous physical problems. It is due to the presence of harmful chemicals in it.
Natural Stone is Long- Lasting Natural stones are much more long lasting than artificial stones, as if natural stones get scratched they can be re-used after re-polishing while in case of artificial tiles and slabs, you get no option other than changing them and using new tiles.
Size quotient Size makes a major difference when it comes to measurement of quality ratio of natural flooring tiles and artificial flooring tiles. Natural marble tiles and slabs can be available in extra large sizes while their vitrified substitutes are available in limited sizes and commonly smaller sizes.
Colors Nonetheless, technology has been evolved to a greater extent and beautiful artificial stones are designed to replace natural stone flooring materials but due to exceptional beauty and numerous unexplored patterns, marble tiles and slabs are still reigning as flooring material.
Patterns of artificial tiles assure for similarity it offers and deride natural variation in marble. But such natural variations add to the beauty of floorings which monotonous nature of artificial tiles can never perform.
About the Author:
Anu Shakti is an expert adviser about Natural Stone like Marbles and Granite Tiles and Slabs. Her articles provide best information about Marble slabs and tiles, Granite Tiles and slabs.
