Browse Forums Bathrooms and Laundry Re: Difference in tile sizes both supposed to be 600x300 3Jun 10, 2014 6:07 pm Depending on how long the wall is you can start near the centre of the room lapping half the tile. Then work to the outside, over a 4m wall by the time you get to the wall the join will be offset about 20mm from the centre of the tile if that makes sense. Re: Difference in tile sizes both supposed to be 600x300 4Jun 10, 2014 9:21 pm As mgilla says, offset them. It is hard enough getting different tiles from the same manufacturer to match in size let alone from another. There will nearly always be a couple of mm or more difference. Stewie Re: Difference in tile sizes both supposed to be 600x300 5Jun 10, 2014 9:42 pm Quote: Depending on how long the wall is you can start near the centre of the room lapping half the tile. Then work to the outside, over a 4m wall by the time you get to the wall the join will be offset about 20mm from the centre of the tile if that makes sense. Yes that is exactly what I did. The only down side is that I used an extra tile per row. I hope I now have enough to finish the job. Re: Difference in tile sizes both supposed to be 600x300 6Jun 11, 2014 7:07 am As everyone else has said your only option if you want a good job is to offset them. Cutting Edge Kitchens and Cabinet Making http://cuttingedgekitchens.net.au http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cutting-Edge-Kitchens/290484196676 Mobile : 0419 430 575 PH: 9452 4772 Fax :9452 4772 cuttingedgekitchens@outlook.com Re: Difference in tile sizes both supposed to be 600x300 7Jun 11, 2014 11:54 am This is called calibre variation. Tiles not only vary from batch to batch in tone/shade but also in size. Even when we import our Spanish lines which have matching walls to floors and feature tiles we make clients aware of this....it is part of the tolerances on the tile manufacture. This can also occur with rectified tiles - depending on the initial size of the fired tile. Also the majority of new lines are made not to line up anyhow. Best is to stagger/offset as mentioned above. Cheers Re: Difference in tile sizes both supposed to be 600x300 8Jun 11, 2014 12:37 pm Thanks for the replies guys. I just never realised that there could be such a difference in the same size tile. Interestingly the tile with the interesting size is the most expensive at $65p/m. I'd never expected that with a tile of that price. All the various plain white tiles we've seen are around $20-30 and they have all been the expected size. If we had just the dark tiles on the floor and plain white on the walls I would probably offset them. I've realised I've obviously got an OCD and it would be a major bug bearer. But the fact that we were going to have the floor tile run up the side of one wall to the ceiling, makes me think that offsetting would look really odd. As they have to be offset horizontally and vertically. I've had a trawl through photos online and I can't find any which have offset tiles on wall and floor they are all perfectly aligned. Re: Difference in tile sizes both supposed to be 600x300 9Jun 13, 2014 10:42 am Alex, if you trawl through some of the completed new builds on this forum under Building a New House you will probably see 50:50 of both aligned and offset. I also think that once you move in you won't think twice about which way you decide to go especially once the vanity is in, the towels are hanging on the wall, toilets in etc. Quote: I've realised I've obviously got an OCD OCD - Offset Ceramic Dilemma ? Stewie Re: Difference in tile sizes both supposed to be 600x300 10Jun 13, 2014 10:55 am You will probably find the smaller tiles are made in Italy. while the other tiles else where. Italian tiles are 600X300 when you allow for grout. Others are 600X300 actual tile. Re: Difference in tile sizes both supposed to be 600x300 12Jun 16, 2014 9:43 pm This thread made me laugh because I asked my builder if I could supply my own tiles and they lay them and the said a blatant NO!! We only use the best quality suppliers and don't have bows or weak spots in our tile....I'm like yeah right. Wait till they lay them and I find a bowed tile when I get the straight edge out! I'm using 300x600 semi polished rectified and vitrified tiles. Re: Difference in tile sizes both supposed to be 600x300 13Jun 18, 2014 4:37 pm Crazyk This thread made me laugh because I asked my builder if I could supply my own tiles and they lay them and the said a blatant NO!! We only use the best quality suppliers and don't have bows or weak spots in our tile....I'm like yeah right. I love the excuses they come out with. Fact is they don't make much if any profit on the tiling if you supply the tiles! Normally they charge 2-3 times what they pay for the tiles! Cutting Edge Kitchens and Cabinet Making http://cuttingedgekitchens.net.au http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cutting-Edge-Kitchens/290484196676 Mobile : 0419 430 575 PH: 9452 4772 Fax :9452 4772 cuttingedgekitchens@outlook.com Re: Difference in tile sizes both supposed to be 600x300 14Jun 18, 2014 7:24 pm Yeah probably true CEK but if they say I have an allowance of 35/m2 then I should be free to do what I want...more to the point they make stupid statements on the quality of their tile when I know it's a lie. Re: Difference in tile sizes both supposed to be 600x300 15Jun 19, 2014 7:10 am Crazyk Yeah probably true CEK but if they say I have an allowance of 35/m2 then I should be free to do what I want...more to the point they make stupid statements on the quality of their tile when I know it's a lie. Agreed. A very stupid statement! Problem is you have an allowance of 35/m2. You see the price at $35m2 but the building company is probably buying it for around half that! They make good mark ups on materials! My wife and I went through this a couple of years ago when we built our house with a large volume builder. We were very lucky though he allowed me to take over at lock up and do all the internals myself. If I had used the builder to install what I have in the kitchen, bathrooms, wardrobes and laundry it would have cost us $100,000 more!!! Cutting Edge Kitchens and Cabinet Making http://cuttingedgekitchens.net.au http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cutting-Edge-Kitchens/290484196676 Mobile : 0419 430 575 PH: 9452 4772 Fax :9452 4772 cuttingedgekitchens@outlook.com Re: Difference in tile sizes both supposed to be 600x300 16Jun 19, 2014 8:44 am alexf40 Thanks for the replies guys. I just never realised that there could be such a difference in the same size tile. Interestingly the tile with the interesting size is the most expensive at $65p/m. I'd never expected that with a tile of that price. All the various plain white tiles we've seen are around $20-30 and they have all been the expected size. If we had just the dark tiles on the floor and plain white on the walls I would probably offset them. I've realised I've obviously got an OCD and it would be a major bug bearer. But the fact that we were going to have the floor tile run up the side of one wall to the ceiling, makes me think that offsetting would look really odd. As they have to be offset horizontally and vertically. I've had a trawl through photos online and I can't find any which have offset tiles on wall and floor they are all perfectly aligned. OCD - Offset Ceramic Dilemma ? I must be OCD too. I wanted all straight grout lines. Not achievable. The tile company didn't tell me they were ordering different sized tiles so I ended up with offset tiling when I asked them to match the floor tile to a generic white tile for walls in the bath and ensuite. What I should have done was to get them to lay them out on the benchtop and line them up to see if there is any discrepancy in the sizes. Sadly it is buyer beware. I did supply the feature tile but then they slugged me for laying them, should have tried to arrange this after handover. But then I was told that they wouldn't have allowed this as the job would have been "unfinished". No win situation. Hey everyone Not for me or anyone I know, just generally interested. 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