My wife has picked a border tile that is 250mm wide, made up of four equal sized squares. The base tile is 200mm wide. Can this be made to look good or would you go back to the shop to chosse a 200mm border tile? If you reckon it can look good, any tipe on how to achieve this?
Interested in the views of experienced tilers!

was,nt there a display showing how they would look.just make sure border tile as same size cuts in the corners. its quite common if your fixing a mosaic border over a plain base tile,your tiler should advise you

Will look fine

- The victorians used to stagger the bond on the borders as they had tiles of various sizes and the dado tile was often mitred on the external angles which would throw the joints out.
In your case you could find that 1 joint may line up every 4/5 tiles ie.every metre, but rather than just miss a joint it is often better at focal point positions to have a complete break of joints.
Although you may consider this difference in tile size at this stage important, it is the aesthetics of the two tiles that I find the main feature and the joint differential becomes lost in a scheme which is pleasant and compliments the whole room.

I wouldn't be worried, it is common as said, just offset border it will look like normal when done, make sure the thickness of tile and border tile are the same, looks naff when mossiacs are proud or shallow of the tile, just done a job where customer had 10 mm tile and 6 mm border tile thickness, had to cut strips of ply the same width of the border and put them all the way round the room,

you could use a listelo trim top and bottom of the boarder it will take your eye away from the joints

Originally Posted by timeless john

- The victorians used to stagger the bond on the borders as they had tiles of various sizes and the dado tile was often mitred on the external angles which would throw the joints out.
In your case you could find that 1 joint may line up every 4/5 tiles ie.every metre, but rather than just miss a joint it is often better at focal point positions to have a complete break of joints.
Although you may consider this difference in tile size at this stage important, it is the aesthetics of the two tiles that I find the main feature and the joint differential becomes lost in a scheme which is pleasant and compliments the whole room.

[QUOTE=timeless john;351728] - The victorians used to stagger the bond on the borders

is that how you were taught john........................lol

Thank you all for the posts....I'm reassured and now confident to have a go. All I have to do is get the same amount of adhesive onto the victorian walls all the way round, get everything exactly level and hey presto! What could be simpler.

I'll have fun trying, but will probably stick to the day job ever after!