Help With Laying Out Brick Style Tiles

[Colour Republic]

Advice would be very welcome,

I'm just about to tile a kitchen that I’ve just installed, I'm going to use either white or black brick style tiles, you know the ones with the chamfered edge.

Now when it comes to the corners i'm very tempted to carry this effect on so the grout alternates up the corner (does that make sense?) of course I have to centre the tiles to the extractor fan to start with and if a chamfer lands bang into the corner then it will look awful but have any of you done this before? Will it look as good as it does in my head?

 

[DHTiling]

Follow the tile pattern as best as you can.......

here's a couple i did...

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[brian c]

did you use spacers between the tiles Dave?nice work btw.

 

[Colour Republic]

Thanks Dave, but I can't see the corners in that photo (nice job btw), do you have a grout line on just one wall in the corner? or does it alternate with each tile as it goes up?

I've tiled these before, tile one wall then start on the next but i'd like to try and lock the tiles together in the corner.

 

[DHTiling]

On the bevel tiles..yes you scribe the returning tile...thus giving a neater joint...and follow the bricj pattern..


and bri...no spacers....are you mad..FFS..

 

[doug boardley]

I've done a kitchen with these as well (used 2mm spacers Bri) I had a white Silicon line right up the corner,and it looked ok, if I've got it right what you're asking!

 

[brian c]

SORRY...I DID MEAN TO ASK ,WHAT SIZE OF SPACERS DID YOU USE?

The rubi ONES LIKE TWO BACK TO BACK L would be good for these tiles in brick bond.

 

[DHTiling]

2mm pegs.....face pegged and removed for grouting...unk:

 

[Colour Republic]

On the bevel tiles..yes you scribe the returning tile...thus giving a neater joint...and follow the bricj pattern..


and bri...no spacers....are you mad..FFS..

Sorry Dave, I'm not sure i'm saying it right it's not the tiles themselves i'm talking about but the grout, normally when tiling you'd end up with the grout line in the corner going down one (lets say the right hand) what i'm thinking of doing, because these are brick style, is alternating, say the bottom tile the grout is on the RH the next tile up it would be on the LH, next tile RH and so on. Just like the pug would be on a brick wall in the corner.

Or are you saying scribe the tile and butt join it without grout in the corner?

 

[brian c]

2mm pegs is what i use on these tiles,what about those rubi ones anyone use them?

 

[doug boardley]

do a lot of tilers use spacer thingy's then Dave?:huh2:

 

[brian c]

do you mean you want to butt them up against each other.corner tiles?

 

[DHTiling]

Why alternate grout joints in the corner.......makes no difference imo...i Silicon internal corners anyway..

 

[DHTiling]

do a lot of tilers use spacer thingy's then Dave?:huh2:

Explain thingy's.?????????

 

[brian c]

these are what im talking about Doug.