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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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Room ideas and practical decisions.

Open-plan kitchen and dining floor of large square pale greige concrete-look tiles with fine pale joints, an oak table, a white island bench and sun through a sliding door

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Floor tiles: how to choose them, room by room, and the 36 tiles here that record a slip class

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.

28 October 2026 Read article

Slim white rectangular wall tiles in offset courses run from a pale stone benchtop up to a level stop line, with smooth plaster above and an oak shelf.

Kitchen wall tiles: how high to tile, how many boxes, and where the courses land

Four places a kitchen wall stops, worked on one assumed 3.6 m wall: the square metres at each, the boxes in three box sizes, where the courses land,...

6 Oct 2026

Editorial scene: plain white matt wall tiles with three adjacent runs of dried grout in light grey, mid grey and charcoal, showing how grout colour changes the same tile.

Grout colours: why a dried sample joint beats the chart

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...

6 Sep 2026

Editorial scene: slim white gloss finger mosaic tiles laid in a vertical stacked grid with grey grout above a plain bench, cool daylight.

Kit Kat tiles: 6 layouts and the sheet maths

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...

6 Sep 2026

Three sample boards of grey gloss subway tile with white grout, laid in brick bond, vertical stack and herringbone, against a white wall in cool daylight.

Subway tile layouts: 8 patterns, and the one number that never changes

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...

3 Sep 2026

Four unbranded tile samples against a dark plaster wall: a narrow black gloss subway tile, a wider sage-green gloss subway tile, a large grey concrete-look tile and a white strip-mosaic sheet.

Best tiles for a kitchen splashback? 9 formats compared, with the subway splashback in detail

Nine tile formats used on kitchen splashbacks, compared by face size, pieces per square metre, joint length and the finishes recorded on this site.

3 Sep 2026

Kitchen splashback mid-installation: white matt hexagon tiles of about 100 mm over most of the wall, a narrow strip of combed grey adhesive still bare, joints ungrouted, a trowel on the bare bench.

Kitchen hexagon tiles: two sheets, seven layouts, and how many sheets for a splashback

Seven ways to lay the two hexagon mosaic sheets here in a kitchen, both sold by the sheet: what one sheet covers, how many a 3 m splashback...

3 Sep 2026

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