grout line in centre of hall or full tile ???

[pierce]

Hi decided to tile 35sqy2 hall kitchen toilet and utility with 30 x 60 length ways brick pattern
Inside the front door its 2.1 meters then down the hall between side of stairs and wall is 1.13
Is it ok to have the grout line dead centre of hall and a full tile 30 and 26.5 either side or should a whole tile be centre of this part of hall 1 full tile either side and 11.5 slither on either side any thoughts and advise much appreciated thanks

so 26.5 30 30 26.5 grout in centre or

11.5 30 30 30 11.5

 

[CCTiling]

Deffo 26.5 30 30 26.5

 

[Andy Allen]

as above........slithers never look nice, allways try and get the largest cut possible.

 

[CCTiling]

I say deffo but I was just thinking that if you had a room off the hall which you're not tiling you would only have 3.5cm of tile to reach the underside of that door so watch out for that!!

 

[diamondtiling]

If the 265mm cuts fit everywhere then thats fine, as CC has said make sure they do go under any doors etc. This is really down to your personal choice.

 

[jay]

all depends on what other areas are joined to the hallway that are going to be tiled dont want to end up with slithers in other areas you need to set it out so you know the approx size of every cut before you lay a tile

 

[pierce]

Thanks all for advise , just calculating it out

when you come in front door the stairs wall is on the left ,there will be
21.5 piece here running from front door to bottom step under skirting ,
i will dry lay em again tonight when i get up there to see again about the tile under the door.

 

[Ian]

Get a couple of photo's when you dry lay them, it will give us a better idea of what you are dealing with

 

[aph257]

Why are you dry laying them? use a "staff" it's much quicker and easier.

 

[Brinkley]

dry lay it will give you a much better visual idea ,youmight find the cuts whatever size fine upto you at the end of the day .

 

[Ian]

Took the word right out of my mouth Brinkley, as Paul says, a staff is easier and quicker, but dry laying lets your eyes see how it's going to look which is helpful when the installer isn't very experienced.

 

[aph257]

Yeah, re-read thread, agree with you there, if not that experienced.

 

[pierce]

Here are some pics some pics were to big to upload.

inside front door 21-30-30-30-30-30-25
just inside front door room to right full tile finishes at saddle of door way im thinking i will leave this as wood floor going in that room??

narrow part of hall 24-30-30-30-25 as you can see in pic doorway with no saddle is kitchen which will be tiled

i wanted to have tile centre of doorway but full tiles fit perfectly to the stairs.

inside the kitchen the tile along the wall parallel is 20 and last on far kitchen wall is 22
Thanks for the advice.

 

[pierce]

first pic is run into kitchen saddle on left is bathroom will be coming up.
2nd an 3rd are livingroom skirting kept tiles out from saddle skirting is off now

 

[jay]

so looking from the front door you see strait lines or brick style

 

[pierce]

hall pic

 

[pierce]

straight lines

 

[jay]

and the kitchen goes of to the left or right or strait ahead

 

[pierce]

straight ahead is small toilet , first door to right is living room and the second door end of hall to right is kitchen

 

[jay]

i might be wrong here but wouldn't it be more pleasing to the eye if from the front door you could see brick bond

 

[pierce]

I think i will lay em out brick bond tomorrow an see
the kitchen counter runs at a right angle to the hall, kitchen is 3.4 wide 3.1 in length as in direction of hall. thats why i layed em loke that to make the kitchen to appear longer , thanks will check it out tomorrow.

 

[jay]

brick bond (looking from front door) should make hallway look bigger (its optical)

 

[pierce]

brick
grout line centre of narrow hall
narrow part hall 25-60-25
55-55
inside front door 45-60-60-25
15--60- 60 -60-15

centre of wide hall 50-60
20-60-30
15-60-60-60-15
45-60-60-45
15 would be 11 with 2mm spacers

 

[jay]

its up to you now

 

[charlie1]

The whole point of laying tiles brickbond is you like that look, you will only really appreciate this if you lay them brickbond looking from front door as its from this view that you will see the most imo. If you lay the other way then all you will see is long straight lines, not really what you want imo!. Also, I would use a contrasting grout to make this effect more apparent, it will look spot on mate with a slightly darker grout but make sure you get all those joints even, good luck!!