Terrazzo vs Tile for Abuse & Heavy Loads: The Rest of the Story

They wanted to install 24×48-inch tile in a 7,500-square-foot open area. He tried to convince them that terrazzo was a better choice. The floor was going to cost about $200,000; terrazzo would have been about 10 percent more, but the contractor offered to do it for the same price. The architect preferred the look of the large format tiles, though, so that’s what was installed.

Recently the contractor, Bob Michielutti of Michielutti Brothers Tile, Terrazzo, & Marble in Eastpointe, MI, had another conversation with the convention center owners about that floor. They had warehoused a substantial back stock of the tiles, but so much of it has broken that now the stock is exhausted. They tried to get their hands on more of it, but that tile is no longer produced.