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Posted by nancy16 (My Page) on Thu, Sep 10, 09 at 20:10
| My bathroom floor is approximately 5'x 9'. I would like to lay the 14" tiles at a diagonal. Is the room too small to do this? |
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RE: Bathroom tile
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| My opinion is that this would work, but you might want to get some tile of this size from a place that allows returns, and just lay some tiles out to get the feel of it. What works for me might not work for you... |
RE: Bathroom tile
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| My experience is that large light colored tiles in bathrooms show too much hair and other detritus. There's a reason smaller tiles have been common for over a hundred years. I also find that large diagonal patterns in small spaces can be disorienting to some people and can create odd small pieces at the edges. |
RE: Bathroom tile
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| Lots of people do diagonal tile in small rooms now. No problem, and it can make the room look larger. 14x14 tiles aren't all that large in today's tile scheme of things. |
RE: Bathroom tile
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| No, the room isn't too small for 14" diagonal. I just laid some in a 1/2 bath and they look great. There was a recent discussion of this on the Home Decor forum so you may want to check it out. |
RE: Bathroom tile
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| There's a reason smaller tiles have been common for over a hundred years. Sure is-- until the late 60's, the processes for making tiles any larger than 6x6 was so expensive, it put alot of people right out of the market of using them. Once cheaper methods wer perfected, the tile sizes started getting bigger and bigger, to the point where you can get 24x48 and 36x36 porcelain tile from a couple of manufacturers. As for the 14x14 that you'd like to use, this is a matter of personal taste, and the only right answer is YOUR opinion. There is no technical reason whatsoever that would stop you from using it, if that's what you like. Just for the record, I'm a tile contractor, and my last tub enclosure had 18x18 tile in it. 
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RE: Bathroom tile
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| If you lay 14x14' tiles, you'll only get about about 4 and half and 7 and a half tiles going across in either direction. This isn't important in terms of doability, but in terms of considering what the final layout will look like. Just thought I'd let you know. I always prefer smaller tile myself. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Plumbtile
RE: Bathroom tile
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| Nice job on the shower splash, bill vincent. Just curious, what did you do to keep water from getting into the wall around that window? I have a similar setup in my rental house and, long story short, that wall got saturated. I assume they use a curtain to protect the woodwork as best they can. |
RE: Bathroom tile
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| There's not much you can do. This was a place I was renting until I bought my house last year. What I did was to seal the wood up just as tight as I could (stained and urethaned each entire piece after cutting it to size), and then caulked the tile into it. Past that, not much you can do. That's why most contractors will recommend against having windows in the shower area. |
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