Ideas · planning · tile detail
8 articles
Practical ways to measure, compare and plan a tiling project — with exact product facts kept separate until they are verified.
From the journal
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.
Formats
Eleven subway tiles compared on what their product pages record: all ceramic at 8 mm, six flat and five wave, two sizes, and the joint length each one...
Concrete look
Six concrete-look tiles compared on the rows their product pages record: all porcelain, all matt, one size or two, and what each page leaves blank.
Formats
Five travertine-look tiles compared: all porcelain, all matt. Two record a vein-cut grain, three softer movement. Sizes and joint length per square metre.
Formats
Six stone-look tiles compared: all record porcelain, across matt, honed and rough faces, with joint length per square metre for every size offered.
Formats
Five terrazzo-look tiles compared by chip scale, size, recorded finish and colour, with tiles and joint length per square metre and what a look does not record.
Formats
Fourteen marble-look tiles compared by size, recorded finish and colour, what a 'look' name records, and how they differ from the natural marble mosaics here.
Formats
Nine tile formats used on kitchen splashbacks, compared by face size, pieces per square metre, joint length and the finishes recorded on this site.
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