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The bathroom has become an increasingly important room in the home, one where ceramic bathroom tiles. play a role that other materials have difficulty taking on.

The bathroom is now an intimate, more personal space associated with relaxation and pleasure where people are spending longer and longer looking after their image as well as their hygiene.

It comes as no surprise, then, that the space in a house that is turned into a bathroom or indeed several bathrooms also fulfils more functions, can be much greater that it would once have been and certainly looks different now. There is no question that bathrooms reflect the needs of people today.

Style and bathroom fittings have become more complex, can be multifunctional and are more aesthetically pleasing: baths can be designed to look like space ships, sanitary ware is being made in the style of real furniture and all manner of decoration is being applied to floors and walls.

What is more, the hygiene and freshness that characterise these bathrooms call for the use of materials that are easy to clean, damp resistant, waterproof and full of decorative potential. The material that best fulfils these requirements is the ceramic bathroom tiles. applied to floors and walls.

The use of ceramic bathroom tiles. in bathrooms both public and private spread at a rate of knots during the 20th century. It all began when hygiene and health became associated with a certain social standing amongst the emerging merchant and industrial bourgeoisie at the end of the 19th century.

From then on the bathroom, with its sanitary ware and ceramic bathroom tiles. surfaces, became a constant in the middle to upper class residential building equation and was subsequently adopted by more and more layers of society until eventually it became universal.

The introduction of bathroom tiles. as a bathroom wall covering happened over a century ago, yet the tiled floor came much more recently, really only taking off in the sixties.

Since then ceramic bathroom tiles. has once again become a favourite flooring material, with both single and twice-fired tiles offering aesthetic and technical benefits.

Easy to cleanCeramic is distinguished by being easy to clean, dirt resistant and resistant to any kind of contamination.

Ceramic bathroom tiles. are cleaned simply with a damp cloth and should the surface be dirty or greasy, cleaning agents such as detergents or bleach may be added to the water. The very nature of ceramic bathroom tiles. surfaces prevents serious sticking and grease can be removed very easily. As a result, ceramic tiles are now widely used in bathrooms, kitchens, hospitals, laboratories, swimming pools, industrial facilities and so on, where they prevent dirt and odours from building up.

Equally, the fact that they do not generate static electricity means that they do not attract air-borne dust and thereby contribute to general improved well-being.

Article Published: Wednesday 18th July 2007