Query-Cooking facing North and Clay tile for flooring

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I have visited your website, very informative and descriptive. I would like to have clarification on two things as follows:
 
1.       Is it permissible as per Vasthu to keep the cooking stove on the northern side of the kitchen, i.e. the cook facing North?
2.       My house construction is going on and the property is a developed area, hence the sand is wet after 4 ft. is it advisable to do clay tile flooring on the ground floor as we are very much interested to do the clay tile flooring, but fears the possibility of fungus due to the moisture.
 
Also, grateful if you can suggest any reliable dealers of quality Clay tiles in Trivandrum.

Soja Silvester

My reply

As per Vasthu you should keep cooking stove at East side of the Kitchen and cook facing East only.There is no other alternative position.Kitchen should preferably be  at South East corner of the house and if that is not possible you can have second option position of Kitchen-North West
Sand wet at a depth of 4 feet is not a problem for using clay tiles for flooring.Clay tile is laid over concreted surface and hence there is no chance of water getting into it from the ground.Present day clay tiles will not absorb moisture as much as you may be thinking.At exposed surface,polishing and poly urethane coating will make clay tile practically water resistant.
I am not aware of clay tile manufacturer location at Trivandrum