Dear forum,
Our quote includes tiles in the above size at 30 euros per square meter (approximately $30 per square yard) including installation. Our general contractor has also openly mentioned that many homeowners choose a larger format. This would be significantly more expensive due to the need for a second worker, more difficult installation, and increased material usage. I find myself wavering daily between "there's no need to follow every trend" and "maybe I'll regret the smaller formats for the next 40 years."
My parents-in-law recently installed a bathroom with this size of tile, which we like very much. We have planned to use the tiles for the hallways, entrance area, kitchen, and bathrooms. Using different tiles is not an option for us.
Could you please share your experiences and feedback?
Our quote includes tiles in the above size at 30 euros per square meter (approximately $30 per square yard) including installation. Our general contractor has also openly mentioned that many homeowners choose a larger format. This would be significantly more expensive due to the need for a second worker, more difficult installation, and increased material usage. I find myself wavering daily between "there's no need to follow every trend" and "maybe I'll regret the smaller formats for the next 40 years."
My parents-in-law recently installed a bathroom with this size of tile, which we like very much. We have planned to use the tiles for the hallways, entrance area, kitchen, and bathrooms. Using different tiles is not an option for us.
Could you please share your experiences and feedback?
Hangman schrieb:
Seen from that perspective, a 1:2 tile in a running bond pattern is essentially a square format where every other joint is missing. Eye test passed! – but you probably don’t want to know how many people fail that...
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majuhenema5 Nov 2021 14:05Not yet at all, we are not that far along yet.
majuhenema schrieb:
Not yet at all, we’re not that far along. Then I will take another look at the answers given to you as well 🙂
majuhenema schrieb:
We are not that far along yet. The offer includes tiles priced exactly at 30 € / m² (about $28 per sq ft) with a maximum size of 60 x 30 cm (24 x 12 inches). In our scope of work, tiles sized 60 x 30 cm (24 x 12 inches) are included up to 35 € / m² (about $32 per sq ft).
If you don’t choose the high-end designer brand tiles, you can still find some really great options.
Today, we decided on 60 x 60 cm (24 x 24 inches) tiles for the floor and 30 x 60 cm (12 x 24 inches) tiles for the walls.
The extra cost for installation was quoted at 22 € / m² (about $20 per sq ft).
Our consultant was really excellent! She created visualizations of the tiles so we could get a feel for the grout pattern, especially since we might also want to extend the floor tile of 60 x 60 cm (24 x 24 inches) onto the walls — which my husband and I actually disagreed on 😀
Normally, the visualization service is chargeable if you don’t source the entire bathroom through them, but she said she’d do it for us anyway, since we aren’t responsible for the general contractor’s specifications.
In any case, the advice really helped us, and we were so impressed that the lady will be receiving a bouquet of flowers from us next week 🙂
Edit: And thanks to some credits here and there (tile slightly under budget, walls getting fewer tiles than specified in the scope of work, and not all walls tiled 🙂 ), we can nicely combine current trends with practical sense.
Yaso2.0 schrieb:
The consultation definitely helped us a lot, and we were so impressed that the lady will be sent a bouquet of flowers from us next weekThat’s a great idea, flowers don’t cause weight gain 🙂https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
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