Layouts
Tile wastage percentage by pattern, size and room: what published guides say
Wastage allowances by laying pattern, tile size and room from sixteen tile brands, retailers and a tiler, each figure next to its source.
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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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Large format
Tile patterns for 600 × 600, 300 × 600 and 600 × 1200 tiles: seven layouts, and the checkerboard pairs here
Seven ways to lay the three large formats here, drawn to scale: straight grid, half and one-third offset, basketweave, herringbone, checkerboard and mixed sizes, with the tiles that...
Bathroom
Small bathroom tile ideas: how to pick size, face and joints for the walls
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
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...
Bathroom
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...
Hexagon
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...
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