Floor for new build house, Limestone or Porcelain?

[Exfarmer]

Depends on the stone, natural limestones and marbles will be attacked by many floor cleaners.
But I wonder if the architect really means stone. When we bought our house, the floor was sold to us as stone, but it is not , however the finish is every bit as good and cleaning is 100n %v better. Have you looked at the tiles from a good retailer, just bewware of the very high anti slip ones as we have fitted in our Orangery ( we knew it would be wet at times ) the floor is difficult to mop as the mop will not pass over it

 

[Farmer 83563]

Porcelain everytime for me....easy to clean, natural stones must be difficult to mind.....there’s some beautiful porcelain tiles that are an image of natural stone anyway....I’ve just laid over 60m2 in our kitchen and sunroom of 1200x600 porcelain

They look really nice. Are they Azuma from Imola Ceramica?

 

[Ormond]

They look really nice. Are they Azuma from Imola Ceramica?

Amalfi grey from full circle ceramics, they’re a rectified tile

 

[Farmer 83563]

Amalfi grey from full circle ceramics, they’re a rectified tile

Haven't started on ours yet, still putting the job off!! These are the tiles we went for - concrete effect ceramic.

 

[Ormond]

Haven't started on ours yet, still putting the job off!! These are the tiles we went for - concrete effect ceramic.

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Lovely build , really like the wall with the lime pointing....is that a concrete based screed? Any underfloor heating?

 

[Farmer 83563]

Thank you, it was an old barn and we've tried to build around it as much as we can. It's just a normal screed with underfloor heating. Not looking forward to cutting the tiles to the shape of the stone wall!!

 

[suffolksmallholder]

The main thing to consider is the porosity of your finish plus its durability.
Not porous and wipe clean is good. Slippery is not. Natural stone is much better visually. Porcelain is a pleasant finish but IMO rather boring.
I have a porch with a porcelain floor where boots/footwear is removed and then one moves on into the rest of the house. This is a wipe clean surface helped by a wash-down runner which keeps the dirt out of the rest of the house as much as possible.
The main building has low porous natural stone as its finish.
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[bobk]

Under floor heating is a must for tile or stone flooring I would have thought

 

[suffolksmallholder]

Under floor heating is a must for tile or stone flooring I would have thought

Ah, yes. The best!
Wet or electric mat.
No radiators, nasty clunky things.
I was so confident in my re-built Victotian dairy barn I never installed any heating on the first floor. I wasn’t wrong
SS

 

[bobk]

Ah, yes. The best!
Wet or electric mat.
No radiators, nasty clunky things.
I was so confident in my re-built Victotian dairy barn I never installed any heating on the first floor. I wasn’t wrong
SS

We've got a now an antique french limestone floor across the water , covered it in lammy , not keen on rigormortice