Formats
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.
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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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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...
Guides
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 twelve ways this range writes a finish
Across sixty product pages the finish is written twelve different ways. This page lists all twelve 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
NCC 2025 or NCC 2022: which edition applies in each state and territory
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.
Planning
Tile sizes in Australia: the common sizes, and the five made here
Which tile sizes Australian size guides list, and which are made here: five field-tile formats from 75 × 300 to 600 × 1200 mm, plus twelve mosaics on...
Planning
What to confirm before choosing
Slip class is recorded for 36 of 60 tiles, material for 60 and thickness for 59. What each product page states, and what it leaves blank.
Measuring
How to measure a tiling project
Measure each surface separately, add the rectangular areas, subtract openings that will not be tiled, and keep the resulting net area separate from product coverage and allowance.
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