Kitchen splashback advice - TilersForums.com

[thebelfastboy]

Hi folks, new to the forum and I'm a DIY novice with no tiling experience to speak of. Been reading through the forum recently and got some great tips and I'm considering a tiling course further down the line.

Quick question for those with more experience; started tiling my kitchen splashback this weekend. U shaped kitchen, mixed mosaic tile behind the cooker then using 600x300 elsewhere. Original plan was 1.5 tiles high at wall behind sink and window in line with end of the cabinets, now thinking of 2 tiles high instead? Is 600 too high for a splashback?

Will try and upload a couple of images!

Much appreciated.

 

[thebelfastboy]

Hopefully this works

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Welcome and enjoy the forum.
I would normally tile splash backs to the height of the underside of the wall mounted units. This can vary but 600mm is a bit high, although 2 full tiles can look better than cuts. Or you can tile them portrait 600mm high.

 

[thebelfastboy]

Welcome and enjoy the forum.
I would normally tile splash backs to the height of the underside of the wall mounted units. This can vary but 600mm is a bit high, although 2 full tiles can look better than cuts. Or you can tile them portrait 600mm high.

Thanks for the response. Yeah think the 600 might be a little high myself. In hindsight I probably should have taken a little off the bottom row to so the grout line was more central?? Ah well, too late now!!
Cheers

 

[WetSaw]

You might want to rethink mosaic behind the cooker, too many grout lines to try and keep clean!

 

[Waluigi]

For arguments sake a Kitchen worktop is 900mm from the floor.

Add on a couple of tiles and say 5mm for a spacer, a wedge and a little gap between the top of the tile and the bottom of the wall unit and you’ve got about 1505mm from the floor to the underside of the wall unit. To me that’s about right but it is very much a personal thing.

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Underside of your wall units are normally determined by the height of your wall units and the top of your floor standing tall units (ie fridge/freezer).

 

[Andy Allen]

Normally .45 from worktop to bottom of the wall cupboards..

 

[thebelfastboy]

In line with of the undersidethe units it is then! Should hopefully get it finished later today. Thanks

 

[thebelfastboy]

You might want to rethink mosaic behind the cooker, too many grout lines to try and keep clean!

The boss wanted them, she can keep them clean

 

[thebelfastboy]

Forgot to post a couple of pics of the finished job. Turned out well imo. Might redo the trim someone in the future and actually use a mitre block to cut...
Enjoyed doing this and still thinking of a tiling course... Even had a few enquires from people wanting some work done.
Thanks for the help, the forum is fantastic.

 

[thebelfastboy]

Should add that it's family looking things done! Not packing my 9-5 pen pushing job in just yet

 

[WetSaw]

Looks tidy. Change of plan with the mosaic behind the cooker then..