ᐅ Do you place importance on the joint cut?

Hello everyone,
We had a construction meeting today with our tiler.

Unfortunately, my wishes cannot be realized...

We will have 120x60cm (47x24 inches) tiles in the bathrooms, both on the walls and on the floor.
I would like continuous grout lines (from wall to floor), but also as many large or full tiles as possible.
Unfortunately, this plan doesn’t work in our bathroom. In the middle of the bathroom, there would be narrow tile pieces about 20 to 30cm (8 to 12 inches) wide.

How do you handle this? Do you prioritize a uniform grout joint from wall to floor?
Or do you give up on that in favor of better tile layout on the floor?

I’m really torn...

It was an absolute must for us, and I enjoy looking at it every day. The installation is more difficult and time-consuming, but a skilled tiler will have little trouble with it.

A continuous joint wouldn't be necessary in my opinion. But an attractive joint cut is important. We had this issue with the facade...

We did not place much emphasis on the tiles, so I cannot speak from experience. But when it comes to a format like that:

If you do it, do it properly.

Golfi90 schrieb:

I would like to have continuous joints (from wall to floor) and also use as large or whole tiles as possible. Unfortunately, the plan for our bathroom doesn’t work out. You’d end up with tile pieces only 20/30cm (8/12 inches) wide in the middle of the bathroom.

Why “in the middle”? The fundamental issue (which I think I’ve mentioned in almost every one of my posts in the large tile discussions) is that the bigger the tile = the larger the joint spacing, the harder it is to position a “zero point.” For what today are considered “small” tile sizes, you typically pick, for example, the room’s center or an edge (like the alignment line of a partition wall) as the zero point. The second step is to decide whether a hypothetical layout of the room using a square grid produces the least “waste” in terms of leftover pieces smaller than a quarter joint module, depending on whether you place A) a joint or B) a tile center on the zero point. This method works less well when the tile size (= joint spacing) is increased, without the room dimensions also fitting that scale. I hope this helps you understand the root of your problem for now.

Could your problem be solved by inserting a change in the joint spacing in such a way that a joint is created on both sides of a partition wall and the thickness of the partition wall is then incorporated into the joint pattern? It might be easier to explain in more detail if you share your specific bathroom floor plan in the thread.

---

https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauen-jetzt/

I will arm myself with the laser tonight, take precise measurements of the bathroom again, and then post them here.

So, would you accept a few smaller cut floor tiles for the benefit of the grout joint?