Which wall to start on

[jashton]

Hi all,

I'm about to start tiling my bathroom. It's 2400 x 1500 and 2400 ceiling height. I'm planning to use 600x300 wall tiles and planning to use brick bond to help break up the linearity of it (but I'm open to persuasion that brick bond may not be the best approach).

The 1500 wall is ahead when you enter the room. It has the WC against it on one side and the end of the bath on the other. It has a window (800w x 1100h) in it that's not quite centered - the walls to the sides of the window are 350 (left) and 330 (right).
The 2400 wall is to the left and has the long edge of the bath against it and a sink unit.

So, question is do I start from a centre line on the small wall? If I do that should I start dead centre even though I will be left with slightly uneven tiles at either side due to the window being 20mm offset to the right, or will 20mm go un-noticed? I could start 10mm off-centre as well to minimise the offset.

I'll be looking at a pattern of 150-600-600-150. That starts the main wall with 450 so the main wall will run (R->L) 450-600-600-600-50, which I think will look dodgy.

If I start at the centre of the big wall I'll be looking at 560-600-600-560 and then 40-600-600-230 on the small wall. Again, not good.

If I ignore the brick bond option I could tile both walls by starting at each of their own centre lines. It will use a few more tiles but that's not a big deal - will that look odd where the walls meet though?

One other option is to find a magic tile length that makes both walls even but it means cutting every tile to a new length, something I'd rather not do.

Ta,
Jon

 

[kilty55]

hello,if your centring walls you can also find the centre point and place a tile half way over it,,,this still gives you a central start but may give you better cuts to the edges if you know what i mean.

i always centre the windows in walls,in regards to brick effect personally im not a massive fan of it in bathrooms as a lot of roooms are small and the amount of cuts leaves me feeling the overall finish isnt the best i prefer brick bond on a larger area just my opinion tho

 

[jashton]

hello,if your centring walls you can also find the centre point and place a tile half way over it,,,this still gives you a central start but may give you better cuts to the edges if you know what i mean.

i always centre the windows in walls,in regards to brick effect personally im not a massive fan of it in bathrooms as a lot of roooms are small and the amount of cuts leaves me feeling the overall finish isnt the best i prefer brick bond on a larger area just my opinion tho

ah, of course. If I centre the first tile on the window wall then it will be 430-600-430. That starts the big wall, where it meets the small wall, with a 170 and ends it with a 360.
Any reason why (assuming I ditch the brick bond idea) I shouldn't start the big wall with a 430 so that the tiles where the two walls meet will be the same size, then end with the 170 off-cut? Or should you always turn corners so you end up with a complete tile length, even if it's not symmetrical?