Setting Out Setting out above bathtub. - TilersForums.com

[Tony_C]

The tiles are 600x300 so not too bad, so to avoid having a small sliver at say the window cill i can shift the height of the tiles and if it falls that it's a cut tile at the bath it's not going to look odd? I think that's my main concern.
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Oh yeah and as always thankyou for the advice from everyone this forum really is so valuable to somebody who is just starting out and isn't so sure of things yet.

No it won't look odd unless it's a terribly small cut

I was about to start a thread with the same question. I also have 600X300s. The room is 2.45m high so I guess I will start with a just over half tile at the floor and at the ceiling and then see what cuts are over the bath and around the window and move my start point up or down to try to avoid small bits anywhere.

The room is 2.39m wide so should I go with whole tiles width wise and just trim a sliver off the end ones to adjust if the wall is not plumb and overlap the corner with the tiles on the joining wall? There might be a cm or so gap at the end which meets with the non tiled wall so I could just leave that narrow bit as a gap?

The other option is to go with a half tile at each end like with the floor and ceiling? Is that better?

Best not to start with a full tile and leave what will end up a pretty small cut. Draw a vertical centre line on the wall with your level/laser and then match that with the centre of your tile and work out each way from that and you will have equal cuts and it will be easy enough to deal with out of plumb walls with the chunkier cutts.

 

[M83T]

I had a quick look at the job on Friday evening and it seems as though if I were to go full tile off of the bath it would leave me half a tile at the top. Would this be ok or is it better to have equal cuts at the bath and ceiling? I'm starting tomorrow so will spend a good while setting out but I just can't get my head around what will look best regarding balancing out the cuts above the bath? Sorry if I'm missing something.