Floor Porcelain Tile spacing

[Hammer-Ray]

Hi,
What spacings do you guys recommend for black gloss Porcelain floor tiles, they are size 297x297mm ?

I was told 3mm as they look good with small spacings ?

[jay]

hi yes 3mm good

[365drills]

Agree with that. 3mm is fine. Go for grey grout of course!

[grumpygrouter]

What substrate is the floor?

[Hammer-Ray]

What substrate is the floor?

Wooden.

[Hammer-Ray]

Agree with that. 3mm is fine. Go for grey grout of course!

Grey adhesive as well do you think ??? These tiles are more grey in colour than black.
The bloke at Topps Tiles is trying to push me on their own adhesive called Top Rap, any good ?
He said it is on par with Bal rapidset but alot cheaper.

[grumpygrouter]

For a timber floor I personally would be more inclined to have a wider joint. Timber moves a lot and you are asking your flexy grout to work very hard with a 3mm joint. 5mm would be what i would go to in your situation. 3mm may look "nicer" but only until it starts to crack. Just my opinion though, you understand.

[365drills]

Must admit my OWN floor is 5mm grout joint.

[davy_G]

Id still go 3 and sort the floor out first. Again personal opinion.

[doug boardley]

as with Grumpy, 3mm seems a bit narrow (imo) I'd personally up it to 4mm on a wooden floor

[Fekin]

Between 3 to 5mm for me, customer choice in the end, unless I don't bother asking and decide myself

[Daz]

I, personally, prefer the look of 3mm joints. BUT, I would overboard with cement boards first or use something like Ardex 7001 addy. I certainly wouldn't use a "normal" single part flexi onto a wooden floor (is this the same floor as the 85 sqm post, 22mm chipboard?).

[Hammer-Ray]

is this the same floor as the 85 sqm post, 22mm chipboard?).

Yes it is the same floor.

[365drills]

PS: dont forget us if you want to put perfect holes into that Porcelain floor...

Maybe radiator pipes etc.





Perfect holes into very hard porcelain floor tiles.

[Hammer-Ray]

PS: dont forget us if you want to put perfect holes into that Porcelain floor...

Maybe radiator pipes etc.





Perfect holes into very hard porcelain floor tiles.

I wont do, but I only need the holes to be just bigger than the 15mm pipes, I think it looks horrible when people make too big a hole for the pipes, I guess 18mm will be right for my towel rails, and 35mm for the jacuzzi ?

[Hammer-Ray]

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