Browse Forums Bathrooms and Laundry 1 Oct 21, 2009 9:38 pm Hi, Can you please give me your opinion on the bathroom tiling per the attached picture. See the tiling grout line, it is slightly off centre to the middle of the vanity unit draws. As you can see to the right of the photo, the reason is that they've aligned the first tiling to the edge where the toilet area begins. Is this the correct thing they should have done, or should they have centred the tiling to the vanity unit, and have the offcut at the toilet border (or the tiling extend into the toilet area)? Can you please give me your thoughts? Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Your opinion on bathroom tiling please! Photo attached 2Oct 21, 2009 9:44 pm There are allways compromises on laying out the tiles, especially when you are tiling through multiple rooms. They could have centred it but that may have produced a worse result in another area. Generally you try and lay them out so that you don't end up having to lay tiles that have been cut too thin. My guess is that they have laid the tiles out based on the drain in the adjacent room as they wanted to have the tiles centred about the drain so they could be angled for correct fall. This has dictated how the remaining tiles are laid.
Looks like a good job to me - about 100% improvement over the tiling that my builder did.. Re: Your opinion on bathroom tiling please! Photo attached 3Oct 21, 2009 9:46 pm From my limited understanding of tiling, they don't worry about centring tiles in the middle of rooms. They will start in a corner somewhere with a full tile and work from there. Otherwise there will be bits and pieces against every wall. I leave you to fend for yourself, figure things out yourself. Terrence Malick Re: Your opinion on bathroom tiling please! Photo attached 4Oct 21, 2009 9:51 pm Mozzie There are allways compromises on laying out the tiles, especially when you are tiling through multiple rooms. They could have centred it but that may have produced a worse result in another area. Generally you try and lay them out so that you don't end up having to lay tiles that have been cut too thin. My guess is that they have laid the tiles out based on the drain in the adjacent room as they wanted to have the tiles centred about the drain so they could be angled for correct fall. This has dictated how the remaining tiles are laid. Looks like a good job to me - about 100% improvement over the tiling that my builder did.. Yes that's exactly what they've done Mozzie, i.e centred the tiling around the toilet drainage. I just wish they could have also centred the tiling at the vanity, then offcut the tiling at the edge that meets the toilet room. That's just my thought....but happy to be swayed by the majority of peoples' thoughts.... Re: Your opinion on bathroom tiling please! Photo attached 5Oct 21, 2009 9:54 pm Mozzie There are allways compromises on laying out the tiles, especially when you are tiling through multiple rooms. They could have centred it but that may have produced a worse result in another area. Generally you try and lay them out so that you don't end up having to lay tiles that have been cut too thin. My guess is that they have laid the tiles out based on the drain in the adjacent room as they wanted to have the tiles centred about the drain so they could be angled for correct fall. This has dictated how the remaining tiles are laid. Looks like a good job to me - about 100% improvement over the tiling that my builder did.. BTW Mozzie, just confirming your stance....do you think it is therefore better left as is or say it was possible to change it, have it changed? Re: Your opinion on bathroom tiling please! Photo attached 6Oct 21, 2009 9:55 pm Rinny Yes that's exactly what they've done Mozzie, i.e centred the tiling around the toilet drainage. I just wish they could have also centred the tiling at the vanity, then offcut the tiling at the edge that meets the toilet room. That's just my thought....but happy to be swayed by the majority of peoples' thoughts.... I think it would look a lot worse the way you are describing and I would certainly be asking them to re-tile if they did it your way. Swayed yet? Re: Your opinion on bathroom tiling please! Photo attached 7Oct 21, 2009 9:56 pm I don't think I would have really noticed it until you said. It's something that you won't even notice over time, especially when you have all the accessories in the room. Nice tiles, by the way Blog: http://bluemistkids.blogspot.com "Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark, and professionals built the Titanic." Re: Your opinion on bathroom tiling please! Photo attached 8Oct 21, 2009 9:57 pm Rinny I just wish they could have also centred the tiling at the vanity, then offcut the tiling at the edge that meets the toilet room. That's just my thought....but happy to be swayed by the majority of peoples' thoughts.... Oh Rinny.. you wanted my worst nightmare! Honestly, that would have looked terrible... it would have looked like a half assed job to be honest. My tiling has just been finished, and I paid an awful lot of money to get the builder to do all our tiling to ensure it all flowed through and didn't stop and start at different rooms. I didn't want to do any tiling after handover because I didn't want cut tiles where the tiles met the wet area tiles. Your tiles look great, it's probably a little unrealistic to think everything will be centred. I leave you to fend for yourself, figure things out yourself. Terrence Malick Re: Your opinion on bathroom tiling please! Photo attached 9Oct 21, 2009 10:01 pm Hmm, first off I'd be very surprised if the tiler would be keen on this as the job is probably well within accepted practice. Secondly are you sure that by centering the tiles this wouldn't have produced a very thin tile offcut against the bath or the wall between the two rooms? Nothing looks worse than a 10cm strip of tile or a thicker grout joint. I think the tiler has probably thought this through quite carefully and this is the best outcome. Personally I'd rather have the tiles off centre than have a joint between the two rooms that isn't a full tile (if you know what I mean). Re: Your opinion on bathroom tiling please! Photo attached 10Oct 21, 2009 10:03 pm Thanks Ari, Hels and Joles. I guess that's 3 out of 3 for the 'defence' so far It's so good that we have this forum to gain objective and reasonable opinions to help put your own views into perspective. I feel better having asked the question and to have received the reassurance Re: Your opinion on bathroom tiling please! Photo attached 11Oct 21, 2009 10:04 pm Mozzie Hmm, first off I'd be very surprised if the tiler would be keen on this as the job is probably well within accepted practice. Secondly are you sure that by centering the tiles this wouldn't have produced a very thin tile offcut against the bath or the wall between the two rooms? Nothing looks worse than a 10cm strip of tile or a thicker grout joint. I think the tiler has probably thought this through quite carefully and this is the best outcome. Personally I'd rather have the tiles off centre than have a joint between the two rooms that isn't a full tile (if you know what I mean). Yep, I know what you mean. Thanks for the reassurance Re: Your opinion on bathroom tiling please! Photo attached 12Oct 21, 2009 10:24 pm I think you are lucky they have lined up the floor tiles with the wall tiles, there are many tilers that don't. The drawers of your vanity would not even come into the planning. Althought I think they should of planned it slightly better so you didnt have that small slither on the bath side of the vanity. Re: Your opinion on bathroom tiling please! Photo attached 13Oct 21, 2009 10:50 pm buildingwithhamra I think you are lucky they have lined up the floor tiles with the wall tiles, there are many tilers that don't. The drawers of your vanity would not even come into the planning. Althought I think they should of planned it slightly better so you didnt have that small slither on the bath side of the vanity. Lucky that they have lined up the floor tiles with the wall tiles? I thought that would have been a given Re: Your opinion on bathroom tiling please! Photo attached 14Oct 24, 2009 6:53 pm Rinny buildingwithhamra I think you are lucky they have lined up the floor tiles with the wall tiles, there are many tilers that don't. The drawers of your vanity would not even come into the planning. Althought I think they should of planned it slightly better so you didnt have that small slither on the bath side of the vanity. Lucky that they have lined up the floor tiles with the wall tiles? I thought that would have been a given No its actually not a given at all. The majority of display homes I have seen are not lined up at all. I actually got told that the wall grout distance and floor grout distances are actually different so to line up the grout line they have to make one smaller which is alledgely not best building practice. Not sure how much truth is in that, but I speficifed grout lines to match in my contract. Re: Your opinion on bathroom tiling please! Photo attached 15Oct 24, 2009 7:05 pm Hels I don't think I would have really noticed it until you said. It's something that you won't even notice over time, especially when you have all the accessories in the room. Nice tiles, by the way I was the same...I didnt notice and I dont think any one will notice anyway. Re: Your opinion on bathroom tiling please! Photo attached 16Oct 24, 2009 10:01 pm I think it looks great the way it is. Can you only notice it when you are looking from that far down? How often do you lie on your bathroom floor to check how well your tiles are lined up? I honestly can't imagine anyone even noticing it. I know you notice it coz it's your house but you are also looking very closely at everything and analysing it. When you live there i don't think it is going to have a major impact on your daily routine! nice bathroom btw plan,block,contract:8-9/2009 Land settle & FHOG$:15/2/2010 Site start:19/5 Slab:4/6 Frames&Trusses:11/6 Roof,windows:24/6 Bricks:1-5/7 Gyprock:14-16/7 Kitchen!,garage door:5/8 Driveway,verandah,tank:2/9 Paint:17-23/9 Tiles!!:15-20/10 Kitchen&bathroom appliances,blinds:22/10 Carpet:8/11My blog: http://buildingbug.blogspot.com Re: Your opinion on bathroom tiling please! Photo attached 17Oct 24, 2009 11:38 pm building bug I think it looks great the way it is. Can you only notice it when you are looking from that far down? How often do you lie on your bathroom floor to check how well your tiles are lined up? I honestly can't imagine anyone even noticing it. I know you notice it coz it's your house but you are also looking very closely at everything and analysing it. When you live there i don't think it is going to have a major impact on your daily routine! nice bathroom btw Thanks Building Buh Re: Your opinion on bathroom tiling please! Photo attached 18Oct 25, 2009 11:31 am I think it looks great and I am very much a perfectionist I had to re-read your post to see what you meant, cos it was so subtle! ~*~Moved in on the 16th April 2011~*~ Re: Your opinion on bathroom tiling please! Photo attached 19Oct 25, 2009 1:09 pm Have to say that I think that the way you're suggesting would look terrible.... looks much more streamlined the way they did it Custom European Cabinets - Melbourne Kitchen Specialist PM for business details as website currently being updated! Our Crazy Owner Builder Journey! 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