When working in brick bond ? - Tile Advice

[Gazzer]

Imagine this job. Bathroom to be tiled in 150 x 75 crackle glaze tiles. Its also 3 colours, Random pattern, white, dark white ? and light grey....the dado border is the dark white colour
Its to be tiled brick bond / half bond, so you get to about halfway up the wall and then you need to introduce a 20 x 150 pencil dado border.
So do you half bond the border with the tile below or keep it on joint ?...bearing in mind that above the dado you need to start tiling again as below.
Just came across this with a plumber and a client recently, both had different ideas but the client won.

 

[cam_low]

carry on brickin,

 

[swanman]

Whats your point

 

[Gazzer]

Whats your point

My point is in the question.

 

[Alan.P]

I would continue the bond.

 

[Sean Kelly]

I would carry on with brickbonding it all the way up. i.e. treat the border just like the other tiles.

 

[peteablard]

Personally i'd brick bond the dado too however I would ask the customer as I know they sometimes like to do things differently. I had it with a mosaic border once where they wanted the tiles above and below to mirror each other rather than staggered, looked cack IMO but I just stick them!

 

[Ian]

Problem is, if you brick bond the dado, the two courses either side will be the same bond and in my mind that would look wrong, especially as the dado is only 20mm.

 

[Gazzer]

Problem is, if you brick bond the dado, the two courses either side will be the same bond and in my mind that would look wrong, especially as the dado is only 20mm.

Bingo, that was the clients concern.

 

[The D]

i would put the border in line with the tile below

 

[Alan.P]

Bingo, that was the clients concern.

Horses for courses I suppose ?

 

[Gazzer]

i would put the border in line with the tile below

Thats what was decided

 

[SJPurdy]

you could have put the border so that it was 1/4 bond, so that the tiles above and below are like brick work but the border jonts lie halfway between the two. When faced with a problem like this i lay the tiles out on a flat surface and see which way looks best.

 

[charlie1]

The field tiles are the brick bond, the dado border is secondary and should not interrupt the main feature so i would not brick the dado. I would have the discussion with client though to talk sense in to them if need be

 

[prceramics]

brick the tiles not the border unless the border is as big as the tiles