What wholesale means on this site
Start with the account, because that is the half people mean when they say wholesale. A trade buyer applies to the Pros Club, our free trade program, the account is approved, and the pricing that account sees is applied automatically at checkout on everything it is eligible for. Nothing has to be requested per order and nothing has to be quoted by email.
That is what separates this from a traditional tile warehouse or a wholesale tile supply house, where the price depends on who is behind the counter and how well they know you. Here the terms belong to the account and follow it from one order to the next.
This collection is the other half: the products held deep enough that a contractor ordering for a whole job is not going to find half a pallet. Those two things are separate and either can exist without the other, which is why a tile outside this range can still be bought on a trade account.
Who a trade account is for
Builders, tile contractors, designers specifying for clients, and property managers buying the same tile repeatedly. What they have in common is volume, arriving either as one large job or as a standing habit of ordering, and the terms are built for both. Every approved account also gets a dedicated trade specialist for selection, quotes and project questions.
The line is easier to see in the order than in the buyer. A bathroom is a retail order however many of them somebody does. A floor across a whole house, a lobby, or a run of units is the point where quantity changes what the order needs, from how it is picked to how it arrives.
Large format tile in the wholesale range
The formats here skew large and that is deliberate. 18x36 is the biggest single group, with 12x24 behind it and 24x24 after that, and a 24x48 group above all of them. The 8x48 planks are the odd shape in the set: long and narrow, and the format a wood-look floor arrives in. Large format is what a commercial floor and a modern residential one both ask for, and it is the format that most rewards ordering in one go.
A bigger tile means fewer joints and a longer setting out, and it also means heavier boxes. Coverage per box runs high here for the same reason: the commonest box in the range holds a little over 22 square feet in five pieces, which is a two-person lift rather than a one-person one.
What the range is made of
Porcelain carries almost all of it, with a small group of pavers and a single mosaic alongside. Depth selects for fired bodies because a factory can schedule them: a line runs when the order book says so, where a quarry yields what the block yields.
The looks follow the same logic. Concrete effect is the largest group, then wood effect, then marble effect, which is the order a commercial specification tends to ask for them in. The series names here, Matrix, Runway, Royal, name production lines, and that is the point: a line can be made again.
Finishes for commercial floors
Polished and matte lead the range with honed behind them, which is the ordinary split. The part that is not ordinary is the R11 group. R is a European slip scale measured by walking an oiled ramp in work boots and tilting it until the tester slides, and R11 is the middle-to-high band on it. It appears in the name of those tiles because a commercial specification usually asks for a class, where a residential tile is rarely made to one at all.
Where a project has to meet a written requirement, that rating is the field to read, and it is published on the product and not on this page, because it belongs to the tile and not to the range.
How a wholesale order arrives
Tile at this quantity moves by freight on pallets, which turns delivery from something automatic into something arranged. A pallet needs somewhere to be put down and somebody to receive it, and a job site and a home address are different propositions for the carrier.
It also changes what a short order costs. Topping up a pallet job later means a second freight movement for a few boxes, which is the reason the cut allowance matters more at this scale than at a bathroom's.
Where this range sits in the catalog
Depth is the only thing that puts a product on this page, so the same tiles appear under the ordinary headings too. The large volume porcelain range is the closest neighbor, since format and stocking depth move together here, and the porcelain tile page holds the material almost everything here is made of.
Where a job is in stone, the large volume marble range is the equivalent list, and stone at volume is bought on a different logic: a block is quarried once, so the depth that matters there is the depth of a single lot rather than of a production line. A trade account works across all of them.
Wholesale against clearance
Both answer a search for cheaper tile and they answer it differently. Wholesale is a current product bought on trade terms, and it restocks. Clearance is the end of a series, and what is there is what is left.
For a job that needs the same tile again in six months, those two facts point in opposite directions. A contractor repeating a specification wants the range that will still exist; a one off renovation can take the lot that will not.
