How to calculate tiles required for Floors with borders

[Bill]

It is easy....just template the floor with lines or a CAD computing program.

Note how many internal/external (or you could be lucky so that they reverse - these look like square tiles with a pattern on so this would be easy to calculate) angles there are, then use your field tile to determine the extent of the field pattern so that gives you the perimeter of the outside border tile. The tile to the wall is a filler tile.... this can be used to help keep the border and field tile looking as symmetrical as poss.

 

[MTiler]

Thanks for the responses.
Firstly i was only trying to find how to work out quantities so they then could go and get an idea on what it was likely to cost just for the tiles.
Secondly I am not afraid to say No to a job if beyond my capacities but we have all wanted to or have tried to lean some thing new. All I am trying to find out just how complex some thing would be to do.
Even those who specialise in this type of flooring had to start some where.

True but they wouldve started small, learn to walk before you can run.

 

[Dan]

Just out of interest what kinda shape is her floor? Because that one looks like a magazine type photo shoot to show the tile. Seems quite evenly spaced for that tile size etc. Your actual fooor probably isn't. And that makes it a bit of a minefield.

Checkout the Victoria floor tiling category (Victorian Floor Tiles - http://www.tilersforums.com/media/categories/victorian-floor-tiles.6/ )and you will see some of timeless johns and Phil Hobson's floors. And pics part done. I wouldn't contemplate it unless I was doing my own floor so I could risk bodging it.

 

[baht'at]

The floor space is very similar to the illustration.
The customer went tile hunting over the weekend and sent a text saying wasn't expecting the tiles to be so expensive so it is now on the back burner for the time being.
Thanks to every one for responding