Help with lining up wall grout lines - Tile Advice

[Kalinda]

Hi, hoping someone can help with advice.
We purchased 600 x 600 tiles for our bathroom floor, and 300 x 600 rectified tiles for our bathroom walls. We are using a satin white on the walls, and a charcoal tile on the back wall of the double shower as a feature wall. The charcoal tiles match our 600 x 600 floor tiles. All to be laid with 2mm grout joints. Well, that was the plan anyway. We have just discovered that the charcoal wall tiles are actually 298.5 x 600, not 300 x 600. This means that the grout lines will not quite match up with the white tiles on the side walls of the shower. How to we overcome this? At this point we are thinking we will need to return them and look for something else. Which would be a shame as they match the floor tiles.

 

[Tile Marble Granite]

You can play with the grout joints

 

[Samerlam]

I come across this problem a lot when customers buy tiles thinking they are the same size but a few millimetres out is a problem trying to line them up. You can try use 3mm joints so you have more play trying to line them up but at some point it’s gonna run out as they arnt exactly the same size. If it bothers you that much I suggest finding the exact size so each tile lines up perfectly. If your going for colour matched grout that are the same shade of the tiles helps blend it in if it does run out also if once everything is fitted it isn’t gonna be that noticeable from the floor transition too the wall at the bottom I wouldn’t worry about a few millimetres it’s only more noticeable when you look at a bare room without sanitary ware fitted. Hope this helps !

 

[Samerlam]

You can only match up 2 walls minimum unless they are all the same size tile floor and walls this is a recent one we tiled all the same size but only 2 walls can be matched up unless all laid one way.

 

[Kalinda]

Thank you everyone. It was were the two walls meet that we have the issue. The floor tiles are fine. We measured out the wall playing with the grout lines, but as we are doing floor to ceiling, as mentioned by Samerlan the futher up we go the further out the grout lines become. We are taking these back and going on the search for new tiles the correct size that will match with the rest of the room. We really wanted to stick with 2mm grout lines, so this seems the best option. Appreciate the replies