Help planning the bathroom tiles

[Jamie]

Hi
Im new to tiling and marking out my bathroom to work out where my tiles should work best. I have a small bathroom but want to use 300 x 600 tiles. Also want a mosaic 300 x 300 tile going vertical down the bath wall. The problem is I only have enough room for one 300 x 600 to go each side of the mosaic feature tile, which leaves a sliver of a tile of 50mm each end. The question is, is this ok?
Thanks for reading
Any help would be much appreciated ..

Ps attached a pic .. hope it helps

 

[Old Mod]

How much of the room are you tiling?
All the walls and floor?
You may have to consider the tile joint running down the walls, and how it will effect the rest of the room if you want joints to follow through.
In reality you would cut 150 off each wall tile either side of the mosaic, so that when those tile joints go down the room they would still marry up with areas without mosaic.

To answer your question tho, the easiest way out of that is to buy extra mosaic and increase the width of the mosaic by one or two tiles, whatever is needed, so that you eliminate the small cut.

 

[Qwerty]

A very common problem which is easily overcome by doing as @3_fall says..... or by doing this (look through the shower screen! )......

Cut a full tile in half and set this each side of the mosaic. This in turn creates a tile adjoining each end wall of just over half a tile. A much neater look than slither each end.

 

[Spacey]

Split the difference so the cuts are bigger?

 

[Jamie]

Hi Guys
Thanks for the quick reply and great advice, what would be the best equipment to buy to cut the porcelain tiles nice clean and straight.?
Thanks in advance ..
Remember Im a newbie, hope this is not more than I can chew..

 

[Old Mod]

If this is a one off project, there's two cost effective options, buy a good quality mechanical cutter like a sigma which will set you back around £200-£250, then resell it on here. You will recover three quarters of your money they hold their value that well, and you'll have the use of an excellent tool for the project.
Or buy an angle grinder and diamond blade for around £75-£80 and have something that will cut both straight and L shaped cuts in one, however, using a grinder takes a little practise.

Having said that, you will need to have the ability to cut L shapes or similar at some point.
Cheap wet machines don't hold their money quite so well at all.
You'd be better off buying a very cheap one with he view to more or less bin it at the end, or just keep it in the shed until you have another project at home.

 

[A williams]

Morning all
These guys are filling you with all the good tips
Yeah it's all in the setting out to get it right
Consider your joints & increase the mosaic -- that will push it out -- Plan Tec's pic should really help.

Good luck && show us some pics!

 

[Jamie]

Thanks Guys
I think I wilk make the mosaic 100mm wider, id rather that than trying to cut a straight edge on the tile..
Thanks for your help all.
Jamie

 

[A williams]

You should always small rips if you can
But it's more than likely you'll need to cut a tile at some point to shape it around the sill etc



Just looked again your just doing a wall you might be okay

 

[Jamie]

You should always small rips if you can
But it's more than likely you'll need to cut a tile at some point to shape it around the sill etc



Just looked again your just doing a wall you might be okay

Hi
I do plan on doing all four walls, just don't feel confident I can cut a straight edge good enough to marry up with the box trim I plan on using to separate the mosaic with the tile.
Jamie

 

[Flintstone]

Jamie, what are you doing in the way of prep prior to tiling ?

 

[Jamie]

Hi
I was going to just scrap all the paint off. hadn't thought that far lol, will that be ok?
Thanks Jamie

 

[Jamie]

Hi
I do plan on doing all four walls, just don't feel confident I can cut a straight edge good enough to marry up with the box trim I plan on using to separate the mosaic with the tile.
Jamie

Can I ask what u mean by small rips? Sorry

 

[Old Mod]

Can I ask what u mean by small rips? Sorry

He's missed a word out.
Should be avoid small rips.
Meaning, small cuts.
With a larger tile, if you have cuts less than 25% of the length it can look out of place, and there will probably be a better way of setting it out.
I try to work to 33% and bigger, looks more balanced.

 

[Flintstone]

Hi
I was going to just scrap all the paint off. hadn't thought that far lol, will that be ok?
Thanks Jamie

Probably not with 60x30 porcelain, perhaps that's a new thread

 

[Jamie]

Are I see. thanks ...

 

[A williams]

Thanks chapps for picking up where I left off

Tiles were calling

Yes by 'rips' I meant small cuts.
One feature wall would look good I bet - Give it a go an take if from there

 

[A williams]

How did you get on today?


Happy Monday by the way!!

 

[Jamie]

Hi peeps
Ordering tiles tomorrow, ill keep you all updated with pucs as I sweat it out through the long journey ahead..
Thanks for all your help so far guys...