Clearance Floor Tiles

Work out the area before anything else

On every other clearance list the tile can be chosen first and the quantity checked after. Here the order reverses.

A room takes what it takes, and a lot that falls short cannot be topped up, because a clearance line is the remainder of something no longer produced. The measured area plus an allowance for cuts is the number to carry into the page rather than the one to work out at the end.

Cuts take more than people expect

A floor generates cut pieces at every wall, every doorway, every cabinet run and around every fixed object.

An irregular plan produces far more of them than a rectangular one, and a diagonal or herringbone layout more again. On a full-price tile that allowance is an inconvenience; on a finite lot it is the difference between finishing the floor and not.

One room at a time

The practical way to use a clearance floor list is to match a lot to a single room rather than to a project.

A powder room, a laundry, a hall, a small bathroom or an entry are all areas a part lot covers comfortably. A kitchen and living room running together as one floor is where a clearance lot usually runs out. Clearance tile is the whole clearance range, wall and floor together.

What is actually on this page

12x24 leads the sizes, then 24x24, 12x12, 4x12, 6x6 and a 2 3/4x5 1/2 brick, with 3/8 inch carrying the thicknesses and a substantial 1/2 inch group behind it.

The half inch pieces are stone, and they are the ones to check at a threshold, since a half inch floor stands higher than the 3/8 inch tile it may be meeting in the next room.

Stone is well represented

The series names here are quarry names: Marfil, Bianco, Tuscany, Jerusalem, Bardiglio, Statuarietto, Mink and a Silver, alongside the fired pieces.

That matters because a stone lot is final in a way a ceramic one is not. A ceramic line stopped being made because somebody decided to stop; a stone lot ended because the block ran out, and no decision brings it back.

Polished and honed lead

Polished and honed sit at the top here, ahead of glossy, textured and matte.

That distribution is the stone half of the page showing through. A clearance floor list weighted toward polished and honed rather than matte is a list weighted toward marble and travertine rather than toward printed porcelain.

Where a clearance floor works

A single room with a measurable area, a floor that does not have to match anything in the next room, and a project where the tile can be chosen after the quantity is known.

It is also the list where the reserve matters most: a replacement piece taken from anywhere else will not match, so whatever is set aside at the time of the order is the only spare that will ever exist. Clearance mosaic and clearance backsplash tile are the lists where a small lot goes furthest.