How To Ship Ceramic Tiles

Ceramic artists are often required to pack and ship delicate work that reflects hours of hard work.

How to ship ceramic tiles.

Once our distribution center has received the product allow up to 48 hours to process the return. But online tile retailers offer a solution. We do our best to pack each order carefully and as we ship over 5000 orders a year we are pretty good at it. When shipping a set of tiles wrap each tile in a couple of layers of newspaper.

Stack a set of say 12 tiles depends on the thickness and bundle them together tightly with packaging tape. The tiles should not move or shift within the bundle. How do you prepare a floor tile load for ltl shipping. Some types of floor tile require special handling.

These tiles if not properly put into a truck can easily crack or become damaged. Ceramic tile and glazed brick are heavy and fragile which can make shipping a challenge. The customer must bear the charges. The only correct way to haul or ship these tiles are on their ends much like you ship a mirror window or other fragile items.

This short video demonstrates one easy and reliable way to package ceramics. Wrap the stack in a couple of layers of bubble wrap and secure with more tape. That being said breakage and product damage does occasionally occur. The tile shop will then issue the customer the refund for returned product based on the original form of payment.

This applies if you re shipping tile or wood ceramic or cement flooring or 90 of any and all flooring. The strength of any item like this is in the idea of it standing. If your flooring is made of vinyl or some other rare material your freight class might be different. Any return shipping costs are the sole responsibility of the customer.

How a given shipment of floor tile should be prepared for shipping iwll depend on several factors including the material the tiles are made out of as well as the size of the order. Currently there are few if any tile companies that will ship returns for free. Returning tile is a different story. Even if the tile company will accept returns of unopened boxes within 30 days are you prepared to ship and pay for 300 pounds of tile.

It is important to properly package work so it arrives safely.