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[Stokie]

Hello everyone.
We're about to start laying some slate floor tiles that are made up of 4 sizes in a pack. Each pack contains 2 of 20 x 20, 1 of 20 x 40, 2 of 40 x 40 and 1 of 40 x 60.
We got the tiles from Tile Giant who provided a pattern but it's not random enough as it is effectively a pattern in rows.
What I'm struggling with is how to maintain even spacing - obviously I know about spacers but all the alternative patterns seem to throw out the spacing at some point .

I've seen this pic in tommyzoom's album and it's a pattern that would be ideal - does anyone have a layout plan of this or can you advise about how the spacing works ?

Any help appreciated
Thanks in advance

 

[milan11]

There you go, mate:

And about spacers - lay few tiles on floor with no adhesive and you'll get an idea how big space between the tiles you need

 

[peckers]

some tiles that come prepacked for a certain pattern will only work in that way, because the grout lines get thrown out, this is the problem i believe your having.
Sorry i cant be of more help, and not the answer you were wanting to here.

 

[DHTiling]

Opus ramano...

 

[STINGRAY30]

where do you start when using a pattern like this?

am moving into a new house this year and would like to do somthin like that on my kitchen floor!!

 

[doug boardley]

it is opus romano, and Ive always found that these joints have to be quite tight:yikes: unless of course, it's always been the same marble/limestone just rebranded

 

[diamondtiling]

i just googled opus ramano (cos i am boring ) and up popped wickpedia with loads of threads from ........wait for it,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"tilers forums", gets about a bit this site

:hurray:

 

[CJ]

The grout lines on the smaller tile usually needs smaller gaps.:mad2: :mad2:

 

[Stokie]

Thanks for all the replies and the plan milan11. We'll get cracking and adjust spacing as we go on.

Thank you all very much

 

[tommyzooom]

The Pattern I used in the picture above is called "Versailles" and uses 2 packs repeated


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