Quantities
For Wall Tiles
This seems a real headache for many people, but when you know the right way it is simple.
Draw out each wall on a piece of paper (not necessarily to scale) and take each square section as a separate area. Take a "width" measurement in millimetres and divide by the width of the tile, e.g. in the sketch below, the room is 1950mm wide. If the chosen tile is 152mm x 152mm then 1950/152=12.82 tiles. The wall is 13 tiles wide. Now decide how high you would like to tile (sometimes you will have no choice). In our example, the basic tile is going 1520mm high or 10 rows. (For best results floor to ceiling tiling is recommended.) Our second area on the wall is where the shower tiling is higher. This goes up an extra 2 rows.
The width is normally 900mm, so 900/152=5.92, so the area is 6 tiles wide and 2 tiles high.
So summarising:
The first part of the wall is 13 tiles wide by 10 tiles high = 130 tiles.
The second part of the wall is 6 tiles wide by 2 tiles high = 12 tiles.
Total for the wall = 142 tiles. If you have a window to take out of a wall, simply take the number of tiles required to cover the window from the total for that wall. (Don't forget to take the sills and sides of the window into consideration.) It is very important that tiles must be of a suitable type for the job. To assist you, please check with your Beaumont Representatives.
Do not bother about making allowances for the bath apron tile, because the amount of tiles required for that is the same as the amount of wall covered up by the bath.
If you are still not sure about working out quantities, simply draw the walls up on a sheet of paper in scale and mark the actual size on the diagram. Then just count up the squares! (or rectangles).
Floor tile quantities
Floor tile quantities are worked out in a similar way to wall tiles. Unless you are measuring up for a large single area, it is not a good idea to work in square metres (or square anything else) as it is likely to be inaccurate. Let's look at an example. Assume we are tiling this passage with 250 mm x 250 mm tiles.
The length is 6000 mm which works out to 24 tiles and the width is 900 mm which is 4 tiles (actually 3.6, but four tiles across will be needed). The total number of tiles needed will be 24 x 4 tiles = 96 tiles. If we worked out 5.4 sq.m. which is 86 tiles, which would have been quite wrong. So remember - work in tiles not square metres. If you are still uncertain about quantities, just draw out your measurements on some paper and one of Beaumont Tiles friendly consultants will be only too pleased to work it our for you. Do not forget you may need an edging of "step treads" (very tough unglazed anti slip tiles) to go along any steps down. You will probably need brass angle to put along the edge of any finished tiling where it butts up against another type of flooring.
Please note:
When we work out quantities, we always allow an extra 10% for cuts, breakages and spares. At Beaumont Tiles we have dozens of people each week chasing old tiles to replace where a pipe has burst, or to extend, and so often the tiles have been out of production for years. (It pays to keep spares!) Put them in your ceiling space.
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