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Simon Watkins
I work away from home during the week, so just planning ahead for my weekend of DIY. Would like to sanity check a money saving idea, and would value thoughts on what might best work.
Period "style" bathroom en-suite. High level WC, pedestal sink.
Will tile walls in white 10x20cm PRG1 Johnson tiles, horizontal brick bond, with a capping moulding dado tile outside the shower area (probably the matching Minton Hollins Rail1 - expensive but not as bad as the cove tiles). Thinking about 1 tile down from dado tile, putting in a horizontal line of 1cm black pencil tile to create a waist around the room.
Floor is a traditional hex bally mosaic (or will be).
At the skirting level, I can't afford/justify the really heartbreakingly expensive Johnson's cove/skirting tiles (£315 a box :yikes
as the 7m linear I need would cost more than all the other tiles combined, but would like to do something different on the bottom row I think.
I'm thinking of simulating a skirting/cove tile with a bottom row of square 200x200 matching PRG1 tiles.
Alternatively I could just tile brickbond field tiles down to the floor,
Or make the bottom row the 10x20cm field tiles arranged portrait style, with maybe a pencil or rope tile border between the portrait row and the horizontal field tile.
I haven't ordered any 200x200 tiles yet to try, but I'm not entirely convinced on the other options and think the square tile will look closest to a skirting tile, albeit without the kicked lip at the bottom that a cove tile would have.
What do you think? Any other suggestions?
Simon
Period "style" bathroom en-suite. High level WC, pedestal sink.
Will tile walls in white 10x20cm PRG1 Johnson tiles, horizontal brick bond, with a capping moulding dado tile outside the shower area (probably the matching Minton Hollins Rail1 - expensive but not as bad as the cove tiles). Thinking about 1 tile down from dado tile, putting in a horizontal line of 1cm black pencil tile to create a waist around the room.
Floor is a traditional hex bally mosaic (or will be).
At the skirting level, I can't afford/justify the really heartbreakingly expensive Johnson's cove/skirting tiles (£315 a box :yikes
as the 7m linear I need would cost more than all the other tiles combined, but would like to do something different on the bottom row I think.I'm thinking of simulating a skirting/cove tile with a bottom row of square 200x200 matching PRG1 tiles.
Alternatively I could just tile brickbond field tiles down to the floor,
Or make the bottom row the 10x20cm field tiles arranged portrait style, with maybe a pencil or rope tile border between the portrait row and the horizontal field tile.
I haven't ordered any 200x200 tiles yet to try, but I'm not entirely convinced on the other options and think the square tile will look closest to a skirting tile, albeit without the kicked lip at the bottom that a cove tile would have.
What do you think? Any other suggestions?
Simon
