Ideas · planning · tile detail
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How to measure, compare and plan a tiling job, with the numbers worked through and every product fact taken from its product page.
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Bathroom
How to choose floor tiles on slip class, material, size, thickness and finish; what Australian tile shops advise for kitchen, bathroom, laundry, living and outdoor floors; and the 36 porcelain tiles here that record a slip class.
Bathroom
Size a shower niche to whole tiles so its edges land on grout lines, choose a mitred, metal or rounded edge, set the base to fall, and count...
Bathroom
Five tiles here record marble, all Carrara mosaics sold by the sheet; fourteen Pietra marble looks record porcelain and are sold by the box. What each page records...
Bathroom
Eleven of the nineteen rooms on the Styling ideas blog put the tile on one wall and not the walls around it; this guide records what each wall...
Bathroom
A bathroom tile choice is seven decisions taken in the order the product record can settle them, with each count read off the sixty product pages on 15...
Bathroom
The twelve bathroom-type rooms on the Styling ideas blog read as one set: one tile or two, mosaic versus large format, the vanity wall as the feature, a...
Bathroom
Three common tiling heights worked on one room: net wall area, tile counts for four formats, where the courses land and what the top cut looks like.
Bathroom
A 1.9 × 1.7 m ensuite has about 16 m² of wall and a 2.4 m height some formats fill without a cut. Sizes, joint counts, gloss against...
Bathroom
Grout dries lighter than it looks wet, a chart is printed ink, and joint length per square metre decides how much of the wall is grout. How to...
Bathroom
What kit kat tiles are, the three finger and strip mosaics we stock, six ways to lay a sheet, and why 88 metres of joint per square metre...
Bathroom
Eight ways to lay a 75 × 300 or 100 × 300 mm subway tile, with tiles per square metre, cutting notes, and why joint length stays the...
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