Chips Floor Tiles — Terrazzo Chips Flooring in Porcelain

Chips flooring: the Indian name for terrazzo

Walk into an Indian home built in the 1970s, 80s or 90s and there is a good chance the floor is chips flooring — also called mosaic flooring. Marble chips are mixed with white or grey cement and pigment, laid in panels divided by glass or brass strips, then ground flat and polished by machine once the cement has cured. It is durable and cool underfoot, which is why it was the default floor for decades.

It also has well-known drawbacks. Laying takes weeks of wet grinding, the cement matrix develops hairline cracks as the slab moves, and the floor goes dull and needs machine re-polishing every few years. Stains soak into the cement between the chips, and a repair never quite matches the original.

Chips floor tiles reproduce the same look in vitrified porcelain. The chip pattern is pressed or printed into a body that absorbs almost no water, so it does not stain, does not need polishing and does not crack across the room. A damaged tile is simply replaced.

Chips floor design ideas

• Classic white chips on grey — The traditional Indian chips floor look, updated with large-format tiles and fine joints.
• Black and white chips — High-contrast aggregate for kitchens, cafes and bold living rooms.
• Coloured chips on a white ground — Red, green or pastel chips for a playful, contemporary floor.
• Large statement chips — Big irregular aggregate for retail floors and feature areas.
• Fine micro-chip — A subtle speckle that reads almost plain from standing height and hides dust.
• Chips floor with brass-look strips — Plain tiles or thin metal-look inserts that echo the dividing strips of old chips flooring.
• Chips floor and wall — Floor and a bathroom or kitchen wall in the same terrazzo for a continuous look.

Chips floor tiles vs traditional chips flooring

Poured terrazzo and the porcelain version

Real terrazzo is marble, granite or glass chips set into a cement or resin binder, poured in place, then ground and polished flat once cured. It is seamless, extremely durable and genuinely lovely — and it takes weeks, needs a specialist contractor, and costs several times what a tiled floor does.

Porcelain terrazzo reproduces the chip scatter as a printed and pressed surface. You lose the seamlessness and gain everything else: a fixed price, a floor that is finished when the grout cures, no sealing, and the ability to replace a damaged tile instead of patching a poured surface.

The design has come back strongly in the last few years, and the porcelain versions have improved with it — chip density, chip colour and ground tone are all now produced across a wide range rather than the single grey-and-white terrazzo of institutional corridors.

Our full body terrazzo is worth noting specifically: because the aggregate is pressed through the body rather than printed on it, the chips continue into a cut edge. That lets a mitred corner or a ground skirting read as one continuous material, which a printed tile cannot do.

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