Formats
Marble-look tiles: 14 faces compared by size, finish and colour
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.
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Practical ways to measure, compare and plan a tiling project — with exact product facts kept separate until they are verified.
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Room ideas and practical decisions.
Bathroom
Kit Kat tiles: 6 ways to lay them and the numbers behind the name
What kit kat tiles are, the three finger and strip mosaics on this site, six ways to lay a sheet, and why 88 metres of joint per square...
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...
Formats
Kitchen splashback tiles: 9 formats compared by size, joint and finish
Nine tile formats used on kitchen splashbacks, compared by face size, pieces per square metre, joint length and the finishes recorded on this site.
Hexagon
Kitchen hexagon tiles: 7 layout ideas and the numbers behind them
Seven ways to lay hexagon mosaic tiles in a kitchen, with sheets per square metre, joint length and what the two hexagon products on this site record.
Planning
Where to start: working through a tile decision
An index to the guides on this site, in the order the questions arrive: describing a tile, checking what the description does not cover, then working out quantity...
Documentation
Wet areas: which documents to ask your waterproofer for
A useful waterproofing file is a chain of names, numbers and dated records. It should tell you who contracted for the work, which licence class covered it, who...
Materials
The five tiles here that are actually stone
Five product pages still give the short answer promised by this title. Their Material row reads Marble, while twenty-two products are grouped under concrete-look, stone-look, terrazzo-look or travertine-look...
Planning
AS 3958 is not law: six things to confirm with your tiler
On 24 August 2026, a literal search for AS 3958 returned 0 matches in each of the NCC 2025 Schedule 2 referenced-documents pages for Volume One, Volume Two...
Planning
What a tiled surface asks you to clean
The length of joint in a square metre is fixed by the size of the unit, and this range states units from 600 × 1200 mm down to...
Planning
The thirteen ways this range writes a finish
Across sixty product pages the finish is written thirteen different ways. This page lists all thirteen and shows where the supplier's wording and the word that files a...
Consumer law
Your rights when tiles arrive wrong
The consumer guarantees attach to the goods automatically and a returns page cannot narrow them. What the ACCC publishes on major problems, return freight and fit for a...
Codes
Which edition of the NCC applies in your state
Checked 24 August 2026: eight states and territories, four different answers, and a national adoption table that no longer matches Tasmania’s own regulator. Dates only, no compliance advice.
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