Hello everyone,
Our tiles are 1000 x 1000 mm (39 x 39 inches) with 2 mm (0.08 inches) grout lines. We plan to install them in a straight joint pattern. Normally, as I understand it, you start from the center of the room and work outwards, with cut pieces at the edges (Option 1). However, a friend advised us to start from one wall instead, so that the cuts only appear along the opposite wall (preferably the wall where shelves, sofas, or tables will be placed), which would be Option 2. His reasoning was that this would make the cuts less noticeable.
I roughly sketched both options, not to scale, with the gray areas representing the cut pieces. The room measures 11 m x 5.6 m (36 x 18 feet).
What are your thoughts? How would you install such large tiles?
Our tiles are 1000 x 1000 mm (39 x 39 inches) with 2 mm (0.08 inches) grout lines. We plan to install them in a straight joint pattern. Normally, as I understand it, you start from the center of the room and work outwards, with cut pieces at the edges (Option 1). However, a friend advised us to start from one wall instead, so that the cuts only appear along the opposite wall (preferably the wall where shelves, sofas, or tables will be placed), which would be Option 2. His reasoning was that this would make the cuts less noticeable.
I roughly sketched both options, not to scale, with the gray areas representing the cut pieces. The room measures 11 m x 5.6 m (36 x 18 feet).
What are your thoughts? How would you install such large tiles?
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borderpuschl29 Oct 2019 08:59But almost no one can.
borderpuschl schrieb:
For many, not all sizes are available as baseboards.
A 100 size with a 60mm (2.4 inch) baseboard looks really poor. Our tiler had the baseboards cut in advance from a tile package by a specialist. It was perfect. However, this only works with fully fired tiles, not with glazed ones.
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borderpuschl29 Oct 2019 09:07Near me, someone has a waterjet cutting machine for large formats (240cm x 120cm (95 inches x 47 inches) and 320cm x 160cm (126 inches x 63 inches)) and a tile saw system for baseboards that also grinds the edges and adds a chamfer.
Yes, the latter option was used in our case. However, this is usually only available from larger companies and not necessarily on-site. Therefore, we were asked beforehand whether we wanted the cuts done on-site or in advance. The latter involves slightly higher material usage (better to have a few extra trim pieces) and a more complex logistics process (having one or two packages of tiles delivered to the service provider instead of the construction site).
For this reason, early communication with the tradesperson is definitely beneficial!
For this reason, early communication with the tradesperson is definitely beneficial!
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borderpuschl29 Oct 2019 09:23Correct.
I just wanted to point out the issue.
Because if the tiler then installs 60cm (24 inch) baseboards for you (I have seen this before) because there were no others available and he couldn’t cut them, it looks so bad that it doesn’t matter which system you used to lay your tiles—you only notice this "accident."
I just wanted to point out the issue.
Because if the tiler then installs 60cm (24 inch) baseboards for you (I have seen this before) because there were no others available and he couldn’t cut them, it looks so bad that it doesn’t matter which system you used to lay your tiles—you only notice this "accident."
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