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Looking for Saltillo Tiles baja norte

aguachico - 1-18-2012 at 03:17 PM

Anyone have a good source for this tile south of the border? Looks like $1 per/sq/foot in San Diego. Mi codo amigo thinks it would be cheaper in Mex. Tj to Ensenada only.
thanks

Paula - 1-18-2012 at 03:32 PM

I would expand my horizons and look in Tecate.

woody with a view - 1-18-2012 at 03:40 PM

^^^what she said^^^

Oso - 1-18-2012 at 04:10 PM

When I built our house on the border in San Luis, AZ, I went with all Saltillo throughout. I looked across the border in San Luis RC, Son. but found a better deal at Home Depot in Yuma. Pluses= they delivered and best of all they replaced any broken tiles.

DENNIS - 1-18-2012 at 04:10 PM

Yep....Tecate has it all. The search pleasure is left for you.

DENNIS - 1-18-2012 at 04:15 PM

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Originally posted by Oso
When I built our house on the border in San Luis, AZ, I went with all Saltillo throughout. I looked across the border in San Luis RC, Son. but found a better deal at Home Depot in Yuma. Pluses= they delivered and best of all they replaced any broken tiles.



In retrospect of my comment about Tecate.....I think there's a quality qoutient that isn't discussed much on this board. There has to be Saltillo Tile....and then again there has to be Saltillo Tile. One, or some, have to be better than the others.
What is the quality criteria for these items? Anyone know?

msteve1014 - 1-18-2012 at 04:57 PM

I built my house with saltillos from Tecate 10 years ago. They were the same tiles sold at H.D. at the time. $1.19 at H.D., and $.67 at Tecate. We made 2 trips bringing about 800 or 900 tiles each time. They replaced the broken tiles I brought back from the first load.

DianaT - 1-18-2012 at 05:15 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by DENNIS
Quote:
Originally posted by Oso
When I built our house on the border in San Luis, AZ, I went with all Saltillo throughout. I looked across the border in San Luis RC, Son. but found a better deal at Home Depot in Yuma. Pluses= they delivered and best of all they replaced any broken tiles.



In retrospect of my comment about Tecate.....I think there's a quality qoutient that isn't discussed much on this board. There has to be Saltillo Tile....and then again there has to be Saltillo Tile. One, or some, have to be better than the others.
What is the quality criteria for these items? Anyone know?


The owner of Jardins in San Quintin told us that the only really good Saltillo tile came from the mainland. He had also used the ones made in Tecate and according to him, they are poor quality. ??

Russ - 1-18-2012 at 05:42 PM

If you'd travel to Laguna I could ask my bro-in-law. He's got a pickup load+ we got in Tecate 5 years ago and if he'll sell them I'll guess you'd get a great price. Let me know and I'll call and ask him.

[Edited on 1-19-2012 by Russ]

Udo - 1-18-2012 at 06:26 PM

I originally purchased our Saltillos in Tecate about 10 years ago. They were installed on an outside patio that is exposed to the weather, sun, rain, snow.
I only put two coatings of sealer (bought at Lowes), and the tiles are still in great shape.
BTW, they also went through a complete house burn-down, and they are still clean!

Udo - 1-18-2012 at 06:28 PM

I forgot to say...

Most of the tile places are west of the main plaza, within two kilometers.

805gregg - 1-18-2012 at 08:20 PM

My whole house is covered with Satillo tile from Tecate, complete with the cat foot prints. This tile is a lot of maintainence, I covered my out door patio with HD satillo with no smooth top coating, it has held up better than the tile in the house, just my observation.

CortezBlue - 1-18-2012 at 09:50 PM

When we built our casa in San Felipe, we put in satillo tile and I would not recommend it.
It sounds cool at first and you would thing that it would be cheap, but, the annual maintenance is enough to kill you.

Eventually you will have to strip it and re seal it.

But, if you decide to go with satillo, you will find it cheaper in the USA.

I found out that Mexico offers exporters a subsidy when sending them to the USA.

Woooosh - 1-18-2012 at 10:13 PM

I shopped Saltilo tiles hard in Baja Norte about seven years ago. Between TJ and Tecate on the free road there is a distributor that had great prices. Tecate is also a good price connection for colored glass blocks.

aguachico - 1-19-2012 at 07:57 AM

Thanks for all the responses and information.

Russ; I will pass along the info.

Art