Tile

Luxury Tile

Luxury vinyl tile is the economical choice for kitchens, bathrooms, and basements today. Durability and beauty are standard with luxury vinyl tile. With JarrStar's wide selection of luxury vinyl tile to choose from you can express your own individualistic style with imitation marble, travertine, limestone, slate and granite style floor tiles. Beyond its beauty, luxury vinyl tile is also moisture resistant, making it an excellent floor covering for those busy areas in your home.

JarrStar offers top quality luxury vinyl tile from the leading brand names in the industry, including NAFCO, Mannington, PermaStone, Tarkett, Toli, Altro, and more.

Porcelain Tile

Porcelain tile is the most durable traditional tile floor on the market today. These tiles are made from special clays and have been fired at very high temperatures to produce denser tiles in a variety of rich patinas, natural textures, and distinctive colors. Porcelain tile is extremely strong and can withstand extreme surface traffic. It is the best choice for your kitchen, entry way, basement, and bathroom.

JarrStar offer top quality porcelain tile installation at very competitive rates. We work with a local company, on Long Island, that offers superior porcelain tile products. Once you choose your porcelain tile, JarrStar will arrange to pick-up and install your new tile floor.

Laminate Tile

Laminate tile is quickly becoming the most popular floor used today. It's designed for the consumer who likes the look of tile or wood, but wants ease of maintenance and at a fraction of the cost. Laminate tile is very durable and constructed to resist furniture indentations, scuff-marks and, in some cases, water. It is an interlocking floor that uses a tongue and groove system to keep the floor in place. This flooring "floats" on top of the existing sub floor (concrete, wood sub floor, vinyl, hardwood and other existing floors), and it is not attached to it. Laminate flooring is made up of several layers, a hard core material in the center, a special backing, and a laminated printed layer to give it the desired look. It is then coated with aluminum oxide resin that helps make it very durable. Laminate tile is available in a wide array of styles, colors and patterns.

JarrStar offers top quality Laminate Tile from the leading brand names in the industry, including ALLCO, Quickstep, WIlsonArt, Shaw, Mohawk, and more.

Types of Luxury Tile

Granite

Proportions of the chemical components of the continental crust are such that should they be melted down, mixed thoroughly, and slowly cooled, the result would be granite. Although a favorite for commercial use, it has shown resurgence recently for use in residential applications due to its superior hardness and durability.

Limestone

Composed wholly or in part of calcium carbonate, limestones, when examined closely, are seen to consist almost entirely of fragments of fossil shells. The size of the fragments and the method of cementation can determine the porosity and the abrasion resistance in addition to whether the stone is suitable for commercial and/or residential applications. In some markets, hone (matte finish) limestone paving has surpassed marble in popularity.

Marble

Marble is a compact, granular, partially or wholly crystallized (metamorphosed) limestone. Commonly produced with a polished finish, its decorative and occasional vivid nature has made it the stone of choice for centuries. NOTE: the boundary between crystalline marble and limestone is ill-defined. A few characteristics make it possible to distinguish marble from limestone which frequently appears similar to it.

Sandstone

A rock consisting primarily of quartz sand and cemented together by silica rich waters seeping through its mass is how sandstone is formed. Iron oxides give the stone its yellow and rosy colors in some instances. Although more commonly used as an exterior paving stone in cut shapes and random (flagging), it is gaining acceptance for use as an interior paving material.

Quartzite

Quartzite is a compact, granular, partially or wholly crystallized (metamorphosed) sandstone. It contains at least 95% silica (quartz sand) in its matrix and often appears more textural with higher concentrations of mica, which gives it a shiny or platy appearance.

Slate

Slate is a primarily clay-based (argillaceous), fine grained rock that readily splits into thin and even laminae. Many are formed in deep oceans or even in river beds, estuaries and deltas.

Travertine

Travertine is a porous, crystalline calcium carbonate mud deposited layers from ground or surface water. Trapped organics later dissolve to give the stone its characteristics pockets or holes.

Volcanic Ash Stone

Known as canters, adoquin, or Kirkstone, volcanic ash stones are formed from sedimentation and eventual consolidation of volcanic ash. In some instances, metamorphic events recrystallize ash into harder, denser stones (Kirkstone).

Natural Stone Characteristics

Natural Color Variations

All stones (travertine, slate, marble, limestone, granite, etc.) are from nature, making it impossible to insure that every color and marking in one piece will be present in the next piece. It is this individuality of each piece that gives a natural stone floor its inherent natural beauty.

Finishes

Natural stones come in an array of finishes. These finishes can add to the characteristics of the stone as well as dictate the type of sealing that will be needed to protect the floor once it is installed. Please refer to the care & maintenance section for sealing information.

Honed:

The surface is buffed to a smooth matte finish.

Polished:

The surface has been buffed to a smooth shiny finish.

Saw cut/Flamed cut:

The surface has not been buffed. The rough saw cuts are left creating an irregular, rough matte finish.

Flame cut:

Is hit with a torch creating a clefted finish.

Filled:

Natural stones that have a pitted surface are filled at the factory.

Unfilled

Natural stones that have a pitted surface are not filled at the factory. This allows the customer the option to fill the pits with a colored grout to add to the appearance of the stone.

Installation

The thickness of natural stone creates the need for a mud set installation to insure stability and adhesion.

NOTE: Green marble must be installed with a 100% solid epoxy to insure that warpage will not occur.

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