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Blunt Tool
12 grand haha I’ll stick to my Raimondi trolley
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Florim 1600 x 1600 x 6mm floor. Spare tiles for sale.
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Concrete guy
Hey Alan,
Florim are one of the prestige names for sure, don’t go spending your money without speaking time first mate, I know a person or two.
I happen to know that these pieces were around £140m2 to buy, but you don’t need to spend that much.
If you were to budget £100-£120m2 to buy, then you won’t get a shock when you choose something.
Obviously bookmatched and strings can be more expensive.
Here’s a couple of your ideas I’ve done this year.
Thanks Marc, I'll drop you a PM when I have some measurements.
I see this kind of product as an alternative to 20mm thick marble slab, so in that respect the price isn't dissimilar. I'm also not a fan of entirely tiling the room floor to ceiling. I'd prefer a real statement on the floor and in the shower area and the rest plain. That has the benefit of keeping the price down.
You need a big room to make the bookmatch work and I don't think either of our bathrooms are going to be the right size or shape to pull it off.
That said, I really like the Statuario looking design in your first image (what's the size/price of these one pictured? In reality if you were to find a quality 20mm thick real marble Statuario of that kind of appearance you'd be looking anywhere up to £600 m2. So in that respect these porcelain replicas are a no brainer, particularly in a shower. Same goes for the Calacatta looking one a bit further down. I'm not such a fan of the beige/gold colour in that one.
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Dumbo
What's strings ?Hey Alan,
Florim are one of the prestige names for sure, don’t go spending your money without speaking time first mate, I know a person or two.
I happen to know that these pieces were around £140m2 to buy, but you don’t need to spend that much.
If you were to budget £100-£120m2 to buy, then you won’t get a shock when you choose something.
Obviously bookmatched and strings can be more expensive.
Here’s a couple of your ideas I’ve done this year.
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Old Mod
This is a 3 tile string, can go up to about 7-8 from what I’ve seen anyway.
Full tile in middle, cut either side.
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Concrete guy
I like that one a lot. I'm not keen on the recess though it kind of ruins the flow of the pattern.
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Dumbo
Excuse for being utterly stupid but don't understand difference between that and book match if the pattern is flowing
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Old Mod
A bookmatch is generally a mirrored pattern. A string starts one end and finishes the other.
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Old Mod
Not a perfect match, but I do what I can to give the impression of it being the same piece.
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Concrete guy
It wasn't a critic of the work Marc, but the design. It's a shame it's there at all. Short of cutting up a full tile to follow the pattern there's nothing you can do really, even then it would never flow perfectly.
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Dumbo
Cool . Thanks for that . I love that grey tile .
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Dumbo
So tell me about your childhood
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Old Mod
Yeah I’ve had my fill of bookmatch work tbh, fitted somewhere in region of 60 sets plus now.
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Old Mod
It’s called Atmosphere, and is available from Uncle Ray.
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Dumbo
Only if I could afford I limited to Johnson's seconds from wickes
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Old Mod
Ray is by far the cheapest place to go for this sort of thing.
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