Welcome to Atlas Ceramics
Everything you could possibly need to tile your kitchen or bathroom is here at Atlas Ceramics. To make it easier for you to choose, take a look at our comprehensive menu to the left or ‘Search Products’ at the top. Atlas Ceramics has strong links with fantastic tile and mosaic factories from Italy and Spain and we take our time in selecting the best products on the market for you.
Have fun shopping at Atlas Ceramics!
We are often asked questions on how to choose the best tile for the floor. It used to depend a lot on where the tile was to be laid. In the past, ceramic tiles where more delicate and suited the lighter wear of the bathroom over the kitchen. Today ceramic tiles are extremely robust and will measure up to a hard wearing porcelain tile in many cases. Many people like natural stone but now there are some very convincing porcelain tile replicas that are easy to maintain and tend to be harder wearing.
About Underfloor Heating
It would be a pity to admire your newly laid floor and regret not having placed underfloor heating underneath. If you opt for either the mat or the loose wire, your tiler will be able to lay it in a jiffy. With the outstanding offer available on Warmup Underfloor Heating, it has never been a better time to invest in this affodable luxury for your home.
Warmup underfloor heating's running costs are surprisingly low: a 4m2 bathroom with underfloor heating running for 2 hours in the morning and 2 hours in the evening will cost only £19.91 per 6 month Winter time. This is based on the assumption that the wire is laid on 10mm insulation board and has been given its recommended heat up time.
Choosing floor tiles
There are many schools of thought when it comes to selecting the material for your flooring. Floor tiles are beautiful and are hard wearing but they need a bit of consideration before you make your final choice. Here are 3 different materials from which tiles are made, ceramic, porcelain or natural stone, but they need to be handled in different ways to ensure that you enjoy them for many years.
Porcelain tiles are popular because of their incredible robust nature and resilience, due to the extremely high temperatures at which they are fired. They are often the tile of choice as they do absorb less water than ceramic tiles or natural stone tiles. It is for this reason that you would need to be careful when laying them as a flexible adhesive and grout is essential to avoid problems later on, such as cracking.
They also require good calibre cutting equipment, as the hardness of the tile can prove to be very demanding on a tiler’s toolkit.
Porcelain tiles can look almost identical to real stone. Whether matt or polished floor tiles; the stone versions are produced in such a way that it can be difficult to differentiate them from a natural product. Some companies such as Unicom Starker employ a 100% digital system that was developed over the last few years. It enables the technician to use inks and transmit designs directly to the surface of the tile. Take a look at the Quarzite tiles and the Natural Slate Multicolour porcelain tiles and you are sure to be impressed!
This is such a new system that it makes the old screens and rollers look old hat. It is such an amazing invention that unlike traditional screen printed tiles that have a “repeat” pattern cropping up every so often, the new technology can rotate patterns to get fairly close to creating individual tiles.
Tiles made of ceramic are much easier to make. A terracotta tile is glazed and fired. Unfortunately this also makes them moderately vulnerable to knocks and cracks. However there are new processes that render these ceramic tiles very full-bodied and able to survive the day to day traffic and wear that comes with home life.
The look of natural stone is hard to beat, as some stones reveal fossils and crystals that are almost impossible to replicate. But it requires the most after care as in high traffic areas it can become dull over time. But with the correct treatment products you can easily keep its enchantment for many years. Lithofin have a fantastic array of top quality products that will cater for every need, ensuring your floor is maintained to the highest level possible.
You may find many different quarry tiles here,from popular step tiles, to the original limited traditional Dorset red by Pilkingtons. Made by firing extruded clay, these rustic and hard wearing tiles can be used as floor tiles, on window sills and even as pizza stones! Since they are unsealed, their moisture absorbent properties ensure that your pizza base is always nice and crispy!
Quarry tiles are perfect in farmhouse style kitchens where a tough, yet traditional look is required. Most commonly found in shades of red, the brown is a great choice for utility rooms and for dog owners, where the colour and matching grout tends to be more forgiving to the assault of muddy paws! The anti slip properties of quarry tiles make them even more attractive for extra grip underfoot on rainy days.
We are big fans of all the Lithofin products, but see below for an interesting demonstration, showing the ease of use and effectiveness of the increasingly popular Rubi Net Grout cleaner.
Mosaic tiles make fascinating feature walls or if cut into strips, beautiful borders. Mosaic tile sheets make for the most convenient method or laying them and they are easily and quickly laid this way. Available here in every colour, texture, material and mixture imaginable, you will be spoilt for choice.
Glass mosaics will provide sparkle and tend to be among the most popular choices. They are available mixed with metal and natural stone to bring a traditional ancient decorative effect up to date.
Rubi Net Grout Cleaner
This product is specially formulated for descaling and cleaning all types of residue from grout joints in flooring and coverings quickly and efficiently.
We have never seen such a fast acting product, so we thought we would film the process for you. See our very own Glen in action, demonstrating the speed of the remarkable Rubi Net Grout Cleaner in his video debut!
Weber pallet deals available now online!
We have included a selection of popular adhesives and levelling compounds, at highly competitive prices available to the public as well as to traders. As the prices quoted throughout our website are inclusive of VAT, this includes the pallet deals too. Please call us if you require a mixed pallet.
An 780kg pallet (52 tubs!) of weber.fix WR plus 15kg is only £570.96, inclusive of VAT, delivered in 2-3 days!*
Bought individually the price is still only £22.93 inc.vat*
*delivery charges apply.
To help you choose the correct product for your project, we have compiled a comprehensive list of Weber products and a brief description of their properties. Also, we have placed a link to Weber's Product Selector, which will help to narrow down your choices.
Weber product selector and products at a glance
Tile finding service
We can often obtain tiles that we do not stock, so if you know the name and the manufacturer of the tile you need, we can try to source it for you. We have had lots of success over the years of finding tiles, mainly through our range of suppliers and even through other shops that hold our displays. Please feel free to either call or email us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it with your queries.
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You may notice in looking through our site, that we had an extensive range of mosaic tiles. Many of them come from a superb supplier called Art Mosaics, bringing you the finest designs in glass, natural stone, metal and ceramic, or a mix of materials. All at affordable prices.
Dune Mosaics are another of our most popular suppliers and we hope that you find them as appealing as we do. They range from semi precious stone mosaic sheets made of amethyst to simple but beautiful glass mosaic tile sheets.
With the new expansion into giving you the greatest choice of mosaics, we became quite interested in the origins of this fine ancient art form: a fantastic resource for the History of Mosaic tracks its development over centuries.
Atlas Ceramics is a member of the Tile Association and are based in beautiful Hampshire. If you would like to visit our showroom to view all of our beautiful (small, medium, large and extra large!) bathroom, kitchen, mosaic and natural stone tiles... we are easily accessible from any of the following areas and many more!
Aldershot - Alton - Andover - Basingstoke - Blackbushe - Blackwater - Bordon - Bournemouth - Bramley - Brockenhurst - Christchurch - Crawley - Dorset - Eastleigh - Fareham - Farnborough - Fleet - Four Marks - Godalming - Gosport - Hartley Wintney - Hawley - Hayling Island - Headley - Heckfield - Highcliffe - Hook - Langley - Liphook - Liss - Lymington - Lyndhurst - Micheldever - New Forest - New Milton - Petersfield - Poole - Portsmouth - Reading - Ringwood - Ripley - Romsey - South Hayling - Southampton - Southsea - Sway - Wallingford - Wareham - Waterlooville - West End - Weymouth - Whitchurch - Wickham - Winchester - Winchfield
