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Tiling my kitchen floor - slate tiles
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[QUOTE="Futuregrout, post: 869445"] So, I am also thinking about layout. My wife doesn't want square tiles set out in the normal pattern. She wants brick bond, because she assumes that is the only alternative. And I don't really want to do anything too fancy or mixing sizes - this is going to be hard enough as it is. The problem I have is that brick bond means, as far as I can tell, 600 x 400 tiles. Not only do they sound technically difficult to work with, but they are also very wide. As you can see from the photos, there is an island in the middle of the kitchen. The floor space between the island and the L-shaped kitchen worktops is about 110cm. So I won't even get two full-size tiles to fit along one of the sides of the island, if you see what I mean. I attach an approximate layout. If I am going with brick bond, which way around should it run? I assume that the best way to do it would be to have the long side of the tile parallel to the bifolds, such that it runs "across" the room as you enter from the hall, rather than "into" the room as you enter from the hall. The problem with this is that there is a second entrance from the lounge, and I think it would look odd to have the tiles running "into" the room from that entrance. These two problems make me wonder if a herringbone layout would be better. I think that would mitigate the impact of having the area around the island looking narrow (which I think is a risk if I cannot get two full tiles in there), as well as there being no "direction" to the way the tiles run. But this is adding yet another technical complexity - I am assuming that a herringbone pattern is harder than a brick bond pattern. Any thoughts would be appreciated! Thanks [ATTACH=full]90648[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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