Can Anyone Help? - How To Do Envelope Cuts In Tiles

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Started a wet room this week normally I use mosaics on the tray but they don't do a matching one with the tile I'm using so I,was going to do envelope cuts. I've never done them! I was wondering if any of you more experience tilers could offer me some advice on how to go about setting hem up, do I pull lines through etc.. And how do I cut them, finish the cuts?.
also the customer wants a broken bond on the tiles but not brick bond, they're a 600x300mm porcelain tile. In your opinion what looks best, keeping all the vertical cuts plumb or keep setting back off the tile a 3rd so a diagonal pattern forms?. I'm really looking forward to this job as the customer has let me guide them a lot and I'll run the patterns through with them first. To give you an idea the room is 3.8x1.265m with a dark grey tile on the floor which will continue to run up the end shower wall vertical with the rest of the walls being tiles horizontally in a lighter grey tile finished off with silver grey grout.
 
Look for the built in lines/falls on the tray - they can be quite hard to spot.
I usually transfer these lines on to marks on the wall as if you cover the tray with a membrane they're hard to find again.
 
Marking the falls is a good idea. I'd loose lay the floor tiles starting at the drain and once happy, cut and fix. I'd set out the walls from the floor tiling.
 
Marking the falls is a good idea. I'd loose lay the floor tiles starting at the drain and once happy, cut and fix. I'd set out the walls from the floor tiling.

I am, I'm going to tile on wall and set the floor to that and then tile off of the floor on the other wall.
 

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