Scale Tile

Work in full boxes: each box of Carreau Ecailles holds 12 tiles covering 0.48 m². If you frame the layout with borders or corner pieces, subtract their surface from the field area before dividing by 0.48, then round up per box and keep the usual 10% cutting margin. Carocim can help you check the maths for this cement tile before you order.

Consider what the price contains: hand-dosed pigments, tile-by-tile pressing and a long, unfired drying process. At €220.50 per m², Carreau Ecailles pays for genuine craftsmanship rather than an industrial production line. For a handmade Carocim cement tile with such a warm, rhythmic scale motif, it sits squarely in honest artisan territory: you are buying workshop time, not just material.

The format offered here is the classic 20 x 20 cm square, 16 mm thick, the traditional proportion for a cement tile. It is the size that suits the rounded scale motif best. If your project calls for a different dimension, contact Carocim: the team will tell you what alternatives exist around Carreau Ecailles and its collection.

It did: Carreau Ecailles belongs to the Martine Murat collection, born from the designer's collaboration with Carocim. Her repeating scales with rounded shapes give this multicoloured cement tile its warm, rhythmic presence. The collaboration pairs an artist's eye with Carocim's traditional pressing know-how, which is exactly what you feel underfoot: a designed pattern with a handmade soul.

Morning sun is indeed gentler than all-day exposure, but Carocim leaves nothing to chance: every exterior cement tile, including Carreau Ecailles, receives a systematic anti-UV treatment that protects the pigments. Whether your patio sees two hours of light or twelve, the multicoloured scales keep their true colours and their warm, rhythmic effect season after season.