Hi guys,
I finally have some walls and levels to work off for setting out.
Here's the wall I am finding a bit tricky:
Sorry for the squiffy angle, it's a small room. Here's a plan with dimensions:
Tiles are 500 x 200, laid stacked, long side horizontal. 2 mm grout joints.
I'm fairly satisfied I want to center my grout joint in the middle of this wall horizontally, so 2 tiles per row, cut to each side to approx. 480 mm.
Vertical position I'm less sure about. If I put the center of the tile on the center line, I get nice cuts top, to the bath lip and to the floor. However, to the right of the strip down to the floor will be a tiled bath panel, and this would end up with a very thin strip at the top. Second, the holes for the shower pipes would have to be drilled right at the edge of a tile.
Putting the grout joint on the center line instead puts the pipe holes within a tile. Cuts are about 40mm top and the same to the bath lip, and a good size cut to the floor of about 185 mm.
The wall to the right of this is a nice square, 1.7m tall (from the bath lip) and 1.77m wide. Leading round to the wall containing the window:
'Plan':
Here the second vertical placing, with 40 mm from ceiling, seems to give good cuts round the window and down to the bath and top. The first option is going to give a thin sliver under the window reveal.
So I think the second option sounds best? If the 40mm cuts are acceptable? And if there's not something in between I'm missing?
I finally have some walls and levels to work off for setting out.
Here's the wall I am finding a bit tricky:
Sorry for the squiffy angle, it's a small room. Here's a plan with dimensions:
Tiles are 500 x 200, laid stacked, long side horizontal. 2 mm grout joints.
I'm fairly satisfied I want to center my grout joint in the middle of this wall horizontally, so 2 tiles per row, cut to each side to approx. 480 mm.
Vertical position I'm less sure about. If I put the center of the tile on the center line, I get nice cuts top, to the bath lip and to the floor. However, to the right of the strip down to the floor will be a tiled bath panel, and this would end up with a very thin strip at the top. Second, the holes for the shower pipes would have to be drilled right at the edge of a tile.
Putting the grout joint on the center line instead puts the pipe holes within a tile. Cuts are about 40mm top and the same to the bath lip, and a good size cut to the floor of about 185 mm.
The wall to the right of this is a nice square, 1.7m tall (from the bath lip) and 1.77m wide. Leading round to the wall containing the window:
'Plan':
Here the second vertical placing, with 40 mm from ceiling, seems to give good cuts round the window and down to the bath and top. The first option is going to give a thin sliver under the window reveal.
So I think the second option sounds best? If the 40mm cuts are acceptable? And if there's not something in between I'm missing?