Florim 1600 x 1600 x 6mm floor. Spare tiles for sale.

[Concrete guy]

Hey Alan,
Florim are one of the prestige names for sure, don’t go spending your money without speaking time first mate, I know a person or two. 🙂
I happen to know that these pieces were around £140m2 to buy, but you don’t need to spend that much.
If you were to budget £100-£120m2 to buy, then you won’t get a shock when you choose something.
Obviously bookmatched and strings can be more expensive.
Here’s a couple of your ideas I’ve done this year.

Thanks Marc, I'll drop you a PM when I have some measurements.

I see this kind of product as an alternative to 20mm thick marble slab, so in that respect the price isn't dissimilar. I'm also not a fan of entirely tiling the room floor to ceiling. I'd prefer a real statement on the floor and in the shower area and the rest plain. That has the benefit of keeping the price down.

You need a big room to make the bookmatch work and I don't think either of our bathrooms are going to be the right size or shape to pull it off.

That said, I really like the Statuario looking design in your first image (what's the size/price of these one pictured? In reality if you were to find a quality 20mm thick real marble Statuario of that kind of appearance you'd be looking anywhere up to £600 m2. So in that respect these porcelain replicas are a no brainer, particularly in a shower. Same goes for the Calacatta looking one a bit further down. I'm not such a fan of the beige/gold colour in that one.

 

[Dumbo]

Hey Alan,
Florim are one of the prestige names for sure, don’t go spending your money without speaking time first mate, I know a person or two. 🙂
I happen to know that these pieces were around £140m2 to buy, but you don’t need to spend that much.
If you were to budget £100-£120m2 to buy, then you won’t get a shock when you choose something.
Obviously bookmatched and strings can be more expensive.
Here’s a couple of your ideas I’ve done this year.

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What's strings ?

 

[Old Mod]

What's strings ?

This is a 3 tile string, can go up to about 7-8 from what I’ve seen anyway.

Full tile in middle, cut either side.

 

[Concrete guy]

This is a 3 tile string, can go up to about 7-8 from what I’ve seen anyway.

Full tile in middle, cut either side.

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I like that one a lot. I'm not keen on the recess though it kind of ruins the flow of the pattern.

 

[Dumbo]

This is a 3 tile string, can go up to about 7-8 from what I’ve seen anyway.

Full tile in middle, cut either side.

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Excuse for being utterly stupid but don't understand difference between that and book match if the pattern is flowing

 

[Old Mod]

Excuse for being utterly stupid but don't understand difference between that and book match if the pattern is flowing

A bookmatch is generally a mirrored pattern. A string starts one end and finishes the other.

 

[Old Mod]

I like that one a lot. I'm not keen on the recess though it kind of ruins the flow of the pattern.

Not a perfect match, but I do what I can to give the impression of it being the same piece.

 

[Concrete guy]

Not a perfect match, but I do what I can to give the impression of it being the same piece.

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It wasn't a critic of the work Marc, but the design. It's a shame it's there at all. Short of cutting up a full tile to follow the pattern there's nothing you can do really, even then it would never flow perfectly.

 

[Dumbo]

A bookmatch is generally a mirrored pattern. A string starts one end and finishes the other.

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Cool . Thanks for that . I love that grey tile .

 

[Old Mod]

I realise it wasn’t criticism Alan. 🙂
Choosing the right design for the room can work better.
There’s so many variations available now.

 

[Concrete guy]

Oh and I'm definitely preferring strings to book match, I keep seeing all sorts of unpleasant images in the match. Some of the shapes look like carcasses hung in a abattoir!

 

[Dumbo]

Oh and I'm definitely preferring strings to book match, I keep seeing all sorts of unpleasant images in the match. Some of the shapes look like carcasses hung in a abattoir!

So tell me about your childhood

 

[Old Mod]

Oh and I'm definitely preferring strings to book match, I keep seeing all sorts of unpleasant images in the match. Some of the shapes look like carcasses hung in a abattoir!

Yeah I’ve had my fill of bookmatch work tbh, fitted somewhere in region of 60 sets plus now. 😕

 

[Old Mod]

I love that grey tile
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It’s called Atmosphere, and is available from Uncle Ray.

 

[Dumbo]

It’s called Atmosphere, and is available from Uncle Ray.

Only if I could afford I limited to Johnson's seconds from wickes

 

[Old Mod]

Only if I could afford I limited to Johnson's seconds from wickes

Ray is by far the cheapest place to go for this sort of thing.

 

[Waluigi]

Never been a fan of that marble porcel-thin. I appreciate the look it creates. That three sided grey book matched one looks awesome though, the one that looks blurry. I like that a lot. Very unique.