Hello everyone,
I’m currently tiling our shower and unfortunately have run into a problem I brought on myself... I know, no work from a professional company, but maybe someone still has an idea.
In the attached photo, you can see our shower. The right wall is tiled with white matte tiles. The packaging indicates that there are apparently three different sizes: 29.7cm, 29.8cm, and 29.9cm (about 11.7 inches, 11.7 inches, and 11.8 inches). Unfortunately, I ended up with the 29.7cm (11.7 inches) size for this wall, which seems to be relatively rare. Now I have the problem that for the left wall I only have 29.8cm (11.7 inches) tiles available, and these are the only ones I can still buy. I installed those with a 3mm (1/8 inch) grout joint.
The back wall was supposed to be tiled with the black floor tiles. However, these are about 29.8 to 29.9cm (11.7 to 11.8 inches) in size. That means they are approximately 1 to 2mm (0.04 to 0.08 inch) larger than the white tiles on the right. Accordingly, I would have to make the grout joints between the black tiles about 1mm (0.04 inch) thinner to compensate. That wouldn’t really be a problem, as I don’t mind the black grout lines being narrower.
The problem then comes with the left wall. I now have white tiles that are 29.8cm (11.7 inches), making them about the same size or slightly smaller than the black ones. If I align the grout joints at the same height, I would end up with the grout width of the black tiles for the left wall. This would then mean the grout lines on the white tiles on the left would be thinner than those on the white tiles on the right.
To make things more complicated, I have a niche that is exactly two tiles high.
What is the best way to solve this? My ideas were leaning toward somehow changing the backing of the back wall so that the grout joints are not aligned at the same height. I think if there is no grout joint as a reference, it won’t be noticeable that the grout lines on the left wall are offset about 1mm (0.04 inch) higher each time. But it has to be compatible with the niche as well.
Does anyone have a good idea on how to best handle this? By the way, only the bottom row of black tiles is already glued down; the ones above are just placed there to try out grout widths. I’m also willing to remove the black tiles if needed.
I’m currently tiling our shower and unfortunately have run into a problem I brought on myself... I know, no work from a professional company, but maybe someone still has an idea.
In the attached photo, you can see our shower. The right wall is tiled with white matte tiles. The packaging indicates that there are apparently three different sizes: 29.7cm, 29.8cm, and 29.9cm (about 11.7 inches, 11.7 inches, and 11.8 inches). Unfortunately, I ended up with the 29.7cm (11.7 inches) size for this wall, which seems to be relatively rare. Now I have the problem that for the left wall I only have 29.8cm (11.7 inches) tiles available, and these are the only ones I can still buy. I installed those with a 3mm (1/8 inch) grout joint.
The back wall was supposed to be tiled with the black floor tiles. However, these are about 29.8 to 29.9cm (11.7 to 11.8 inches) in size. That means they are approximately 1 to 2mm (0.04 to 0.08 inch) larger than the white tiles on the right. Accordingly, I would have to make the grout joints between the black tiles about 1mm (0.04 inch) thinner to compensate. That wouldn’t really be a problem, as I don’t mind the black grout lines being narrower.
The problem then comes with the left wall. I now have white tiles that are 29.8cm (11.7 inches), making them about the same size or slightly smaller than the black ones. If I align the grout joints at the same height, I would end up with the grout width of the black tiles for the left wall. This would then mean the grout lines on the white tiles on the left would be thinner than those on the white tiles on the right.
To make things more complicated, I have a niche that is exactly two tiles high.
What is the best way to solve this? My ideas were leaning toward somehow changing the backing of the back wall so that the grout joints are not aligned at the same height. I think if there is no grout joint as a reference, it won’t be noticeable that the grout lines on the left wall are offset about 1mm (0.04 inch) higher each time. But it has to be compatible with the niche as well.
Does anyone have a good idea on how to best handle this? By the way, only the bottom row of black tiles is already glued down; the ones above are just placed there to try out grout widths. I’m also willing to remove the black tiles if needed.
You could also paint the niche white again... or actually make it black with mosaic tiles in between, and so on. Then the niche wouldn’t be exactly one tile high, but rather 1/4 or 3/4 of a tile, followed by some metallic mosaic and then a bit more tile.
Then install the black tiles vertically and start at the bottom with a tile about 3/4 high.
Have you measured the tiles yourself, or is the size only listed on the packaging?
Then install the black tiles vertically and start at the bottom with a tile about 3/4 high.
Have you measured the tiles yourself, or is the size only listed on the packaging?
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