when faced with a bathroom to tile, how do you lot decide how big the tiles are to be?
do you base it on some rule of thumb regarding room size?
do you choose tile size on what will give least cuts?
graph paper? sketchup? what??
Cheers Jim K
wife?
Adam
I was going to ramble about colour/design/material/price etc. Adam has put it all in one word :)) Nick
My recent decision was based on acceptability to SWMBO and price. We ended up with tiles which measure 250 x 200. We looked at some very similar ones which were 400 x 250 - but they were quite a lot dearer per unit area.
If they're not square, you also have to decide on orientation - unless the design leaves no option. Ours were a sort of mosaic, with dummy grout lines between the squares - so the appearance when grouted is very similar whichever orientation you choose. I drew it all out on a CAD system, and found that I needed fewer tiles[1] if I laid them in landscape orientation - so that's what I did.
[1] My tiles don't go right up to the very high ceiling, but just high enough to be above the top of the over-bath shower's riser rail - and the other orientation would have taken them higher than they needed to go.ARWadsworth wibbled on Tuesday 20 July 2010 20:36
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In article , Roger Mills writes
Not seen those before, care to share a link or a pic? I'm put off large areas of mosaic on the grounds of lots of grout to discolour or go bad.
sounds like they'd have lotsa grout to discolour??
Cheers Jim K
I got them from Focus. Here's the link:
No! The 'dummy' grout lines are simply a white slightly recessed matrix on the tile - with a glazed finish. The only *real* grout is between the tiles, *not* between the little mosaics.
[It's quite interesting cutting them - 'cos the cutting wheel goes bump-bump-bump etc. into every dummy grout recess. They still break cleanly, though.]
What I fancy when I go to the tile centre. That has varied from 300 x
450mm down to 15mm x 15mm. I may also use different sizes of tile to fit certain features - contrasting mosaic tiles to fit a difficult place, for example.Nope.
Nope
Mostly done in my head, with a few measurements to check I am buying the right quantity. I can always visualise before I start what a room will look like when it is finished.
Colin Bignell
My neighbour's bathroom has lots of sizes!
It reminds me of the set for a surrealist silent movie, the name of which escapes me at the moment. As a piece of surrelaist art, I like it. However, IMO, it fails in its aim to look like a ruined house as you need to be told that is what it is.
Colin Bignell
oh ok them ones! Cheers Jim K
You haven't seen the rest of the house.
Here are some gold tiles on the floor:
Here are some ballustrades, with tiles, on the stairs:
It still looks surrealist to me.
Colin Bignell
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