Tiling guides
Practical guides on planning tile and panel layouts - written from site experience, not from a keyword list.
Planning a floor in the planner, from the tape measure to the tile count
· 11 min read
Step by step, what planning a floor with the planner actually looks like on a real flat: measuring, the outline, the joints between materials, patterns and the material count.
Bathroom tiles - how to plan the layout around the bath, the niche and the fall
· 12 min read
In a bathroom it is the top edge of the bath and the line of the fall that set the joint grid, not the floor. What follows from that for cut tiles, the niche and the access hatch.
Herringbone layout - how to plan it and how much waste to allow
· 10 min read
Classic and French herringbone, the direction and axis of the pattern instead of a corner of the room, and the waste worked out on one real room: 14.9% with the axis set well, 22.5% with it set badly.
How much laminate flooring to buy and how much spare to add
· 8 min read
Laminate is counted differently from tiles – what decides it is the length of the rows and what happens to the offcut at the end of each one.
Where to start tiling so you don't end up with a strip of offcuts
· 5 min read
The starting point decides how the last row looks. How to set it, when to shift the grid and which wall to watch most closely.