Reclaimed red quarry tiles

[geraldthehamster]

Hello. This is my first post, so thank you for letting me be here. I'm hoping someone with more experience than I have can help with the following query.

I have a quantity of Victorian red quarry tiles that came out of a kitchen in a terraced house in York. 6 inch by 6 inch by one inch.

If I lay these on concrete outside, is there any way they won't be spalled to hell after a winter of two freezing and thawing? I know some quarry tiles are frostproof, but I've also seen them laid outdoors and reduced to a latticework of raised cement mortar by the weather.

I'd like to use them if I can, but don't want to be looking at a scene of devastation in a couple of years time.

Does anyone have any experience of using reclaimed quarry tiles outdoors? Are there any steps I can take to preserve them, by the way I lay them?

Cheers
Richard

[lutonlagerlout]

you have answered your own question there richard
if the tiles were interior to start with why chance them outdoors?
out door tiles tend to have a glaze on them
LLL