c9m2 / 97 sq ceramic Boch Freres floor c.1914

A reclaimed, fully restored, arriving ready to relay antique French ceramic. The surface area is +/- 9m2 / 97 sq ft.

The floor was handmade by the multiple award winning Societe Carrelages Ceramiques de Boch Freres, Maubeuge in 1914 and we include in the photo gallery scans from their original catalogue showing the floor with its original half size and full size borders.

15cm square field and large border tiles plus a half size 15cm x 7.5cm border.  The tiles are c.15mm thick on this quality ceramic.

We have not managed to recover the large border corner tiles, and for the photographs in the gallery we have simply placed a field tile in its position, but in the gallery we have produced a schematic of how the border corners can easily be mitre cut using the regular border tiles. It was a common practice when the floors were originally laid.

Tile quantities, give or take one or two:-

Field tiles - 260 - 5.9m2 / 63 sq ft.

Large border tiles - 100 - 2.25m2 / 24 sq ft. or 15 linear metres / 49.2 linear feet.

Small border tiles - 130 plus 4 corners - 1.5m2 / 16 sq. ft or 19.5 linear metres / 64 linear feet.

NOTE
Antique tiles were most commonly made in single or two tile moulds. Before current computer automation methods their moulds were made my hand and the colour slips mixed by eye. Kiln temperatures could also be variable, as could the firing time. The result is that often tiles display subtle size and thickness variations and there can be tonal variations in colours, owing to the slip mixing and/or firing time. All of this makes these handmade tiles unique and adds to their charm. Some floors display their subtle variations in size and tones, some not, but when photographing we always take a random section of the floor so that it is representative of the whole. A tiler should always dry lay a section of the tiles to familiarise himself with them before starting to fix lay