3mm best for floor grout joints?

[Lucas 2]

Used to do 2mm floor grout gaps unless customer wanted wider but did a floor last week with 3mm grout gaps 'cos some of you said this is the minimum recommended distance.
Keep seeing 2mm and 1mm grout gaps when I look in shops etc
What's the latest? 2mm not wide enough?


Cheers :smilewinkgrin:

 

[Aztectiler]

Personally I like to see a wider gap on floors than is generally used on walls

i.e 2mm-3mm on walls and 5mm ish on floors.

I have also in the past done a floor job with a grout gap of around 15mm at the customers request I may also add.

Ask your customer what he would like and advise accordingly, at the end of the day it is what will look best for each job you do.

 

[Lucas 2]

thanks for that! - the gist of the 3mm + rule was that floor tiles shouldn't be any closer in case of any movement of the floor in the future.
But you're right customers have their own ideas on what looks the best and so do we!
cheers

 

[Fred]

I use 3mm on ceramic, porcelain etc, but stone tiles it can vary, say a nice travertine chisel edged I'd use 5mm, but on trav which is factory cut edges I go with 2mm..........marble 2mm etc..........

 

[doug boardley]

if you're confident there's no movement in floor I suppose it's ok to size down, but personally I don't go below 3mm unless absolutely neccessary, ie four size pattern etc.

 

[d noulton]

thought 4mm was standard

 

[Eddie]

I use 4mm, for floors, unless customer asks for different.

 

[doug boardley]

thought 4mm was standard

my preferred choice

 

[david campbell]

unless customer asks i usually tend to use 4mm on floors although i do think polished,trav and marble look better with 2mm(unless it's b&q's famous 600mm2 polished lol)

 

[Daz]

I favour 2mm for walls and 3mm for floors unless customer requests otherwise. If the floor is somewhat out of level then I will opt for 4 or 5mm.

 

[smurf21]

3mm or 4mm unless rectified then i use 2mm

 

[davy_G]

2 for walls, 3 for standard floors, 5 if uneven and 2 for rectified

 

[Yorkshire Tiling Services]

different grout sizes on walls and floors can cause a problem if the customer has tiles that are the same dimensions, sometimes they want the lines on walls and floor to marry up. Then you need to get the customer to agree what with is ok,
if u hav different on walls and floor, your lines wont meet

 

[hillhead]

I mostly have 4-5mm on floors,your right tina about the marrying up.I even had before and the wall tiles were half a mil out so i had to adjust the floor wider to suit,looks great when its done.

 

[davy_G]

different grout sizes on walls and floors can cause a problem if the customer has tiles that are the same dimensions, sometimes they want the lines on walls and floor to marry up. Then you need to get the customer to agree what with is ok,
if u hav different on walls and floor, your lines wont meet

I aint done a job yet with same size tiles on floors and walls. Your quite right in what you say though, if that is what the customer wants. I can see it being a pain to set out properly though!:mad2: