Finished large-format marble-effect porcelain across an open-plan kitchen and dining area, Ascot
Ascot • Berkshire

Large Format Porcelain in Ascot

Oversized porcelain — 1200 × 600 mm through 3200 × 1600 mm slabs — installed with lifting frames, self-levelling adhesive and a lippage-first setting-out approach. The format that transforms a room, done properly.

  • Slabs up to 3200 × 1600 mm
  • Full-Coverage Fixing
  • Lifting Frames & Rail Saws
  • Levelling System on Every Tile

Setting-out · Coverage · Lippage

Why Large-Format Porcelain Needs a Specialist

Large-format porcelain is unforgiving. A 3-metre slab is heavy, brittle in transit, and impossible to hide behind. Every millimetre of substrate deviation, every gap in the adhesive bed and every setting-out error is visible under skirting-height light.

We install these formats every week. We use suction-cup lifting frames, wet rail saws for perfect edges, back-buttered full-coverage fixing, self-levelling C2S1 adhesive and a levelling system on every single tile. The result is a floor that reads as a single continuous surface.

Large-format case studies

Recent Large-Format Installations

Two recent Ascot and Sunningdale projects — the format, the challenge and the setting-out approach we took.

1200 × 600 Kitchen Extension

Sunningdale, Berkshire

Tile size
1200 × 600 mm
Tile type
Rectified grey porcelain
Area installed
Approx. 85 m² across a bi-fold-open extension
Notes
Long light-filled extension with bi-fold openings — the joints had to line through with the glazing modules, cuts around underfloor-heating manifolds had to be invisible, and every tile needed full adhesive coverage and minimal lippage under skirting-height light.
The tiling completely lifted the extension. Deluxe were the calmest, tidiest team we had on the whole project.
Private client, Sunningdale
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900 × 900 Marble-Effect Whole Ground Floor

Ascot, Berkshire

Tile size
900 × 900 mm
Tile type
Polished marble-effect porcelain
Area installed
Approx. 120 m² across kitchen, dining, hallway & lounge
Notes
Continuous flow of oversized polished porcelain across five rooms and a staircase edge — every joint aligned through every doorway, every cut around a bespoke kitchen island executed with a wet rail saw, mitred returns to the stair riser.
The finish is immaculate. Shane planned everything meticulously. Genuinely the best trade we've had on site.
Private client, Ascot
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The difference

Large-Format: Specialist vs Standard Installer

The difference between a large-format porcelain floor that looks like a magazine image and one that fails within a year is entirely on the installer.

Deluxe Tiling

Precision installation

  • Suction-cup lifting frames
  • Self-levelled substrate before day one
  • Back-buttered full adhesive coverage
  • Levelling system on every tile
  • Wet rail saw for clean cuts
  • Rectified joint spacing (2–3 mm)

Typical installation

Average workmanship

  • Two-person carry (chipped edges)
  • Tiles laid over uneven concrete
  • Dot & dab (guaranteed cracks)
  • Visible lippage across the room
  • Angle-grinder chipped edges
  • Inconsistent, wandering grout lines

The word from our large-format clients

What Our Clients Say

5.0/5 · 3 verified reviews
James & Olivia H.

Ascot

The 900mm marble-effect porcelain floor is flawless — you can't feel a single joint underfoot. Shane treated setting out like a science.
Mark P.

Virginia Water

We interviewed four tilers before choosing Deluxe. Only Shane properly understood the setting-out for our 1200 slabs. Zero lippage, perfect result.
Rebecca W.

Sunningdale

Our extension floor is the room's centrepiece. Deluxe were meticulous — even the trims and the transition into the hallway line up perfectly.

Answers

Large-Format Porcelain — FAQs

  • Anything from 600 × 600 mm rectified porcelain through to 3200 × 1600 mm slab formats. We have the lifting frames, rail saw, suction handles and levelling systems needed for oversized formats — and, importantly, the setting-out experience they demand.

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