Show me your tiling!

[s3fella]

I have a wide but narrow en suite to tile. Basically 4m wide, with a 1100 x 800 shower cubcicle at one end, and a 1700 x 750 bath the opposite end, and basically only 1100mm wide in the middle, (obviously the room widens only around the bath to 1800 where you feet are!! So like a long narrow L shape.

Side, (long walls) will be paint and some wooden panelling I have, (olivewood), a neutralish paint. So I need a tiling shoice and potential design in the shower cubicle and bath "cubicle".
Suite is white, posh loo, whirl bath, and vanity unit sink / wall cabinet.

I was thinking of a trabetine (or ceramic version) with some design in a contrast colour. I have about 4m2 of a indian copper honed slate from Madarin stone already, that i may use as accents, or may keep for another job.

So looking for inspiration!!

[Dupont666]

Woo hoo a thread for just me, I went with ceramic looking limestone that actually looks and feels like it, for contrast I added a pitted version of the same tile as a border.

For the little bit extra, check out the matching stripe in special tiles and basing in the same substance to just give the room something a little more.

2 open facebook photo pages that means anyone can see them:

more here:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=385132&i...

and

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=11480190&amp...

Original thread:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

If you want to know where to get those tiles from (ceramic ones) I can dig out the company, they started off at £1900 for all the tiles and I eventually got them all for less than £1k.

Not cheap but when its not a renovation job to sell, I thought it was worth it and in the end it was roughly £6k all in for the whole bathroom.

[Simpo Two]

s3fella said:

I was thinking of a trabetine

Travertine (just in case you were googling for trabetine and couldn't find any). It's a kind of limestone, halfway to marble.

[Dupont666]

Simpo Two said:

s3fella said:

I was thinking of a trabetine

Travertine (just in case you were googling for trabetine and couldn't find any). It's a kind of limestone, halfway to marble.

And if you are not willing to pay £65+ minimum a sq m, you end up with the filled in tiles that look st and the holes can be up to 2" in diameter that have been fixed... plus you have to find a non acidic cleaner otherwise it will dissolve.

Oh and did I mention the gunge and crap that can get caught in the rolled versions that mean the grout goes black with mould?

[s3fella]

Simpo Two said:

s3fella said:

I was thinking of a trabetine

Travertine (just in case you were googling for trabetine and couldn't find any). It's a kind of limestone, halfway to marble.

Vollox, having a "b" next to a "v" on the keyboard!!

[s3fella]

I saw some limestone ceramics at a Fired Earth factory sale last week, and they had enough at £4.95 a tile for 60x30cm. BUt then the guy in front of me bought three pallets of them and it left only 2.5m left, I need about 11m-12m!

I think the limestone or sandstone ceramics is the way to go.

BTW love those pebble tiles. I was considering a vertical stripe like that, on the long wall of the shower and same position on the long wall of the opposite bath. But due to roof void sace, the shower in the cubicle is on one of the shorter 800mm walls, not the 1100mil (room width)wall. So the stripe would not have the shower in the middle of it.

Not sure if it matters though.....?

Where are them pebble tiles from??

[Dupont666]

s3fella said:

I saw some limestone ceramics at a Fired Earth factory sale last week, and they had enough at £4.95 a tile for 60x30cm. BUt then the guy in front of me bought three pallets of them and it left only 2.5m left, I need about 11m-12m!

I think the limestone or sandstone ceramics is the way to go.

BTW love those pebble tiles. I was considering a vertical stripe like that, on the long wall of the shower and same position on the long wall of the opposite bath. But due to roof void sace, the shower in the cubicle is on one of the shorter 800mm walls, not the 1100mil (room width)wall. So the stripe would not have the shower in the middle of it.

Not sure if it matters though.....?

Where are them pebble tiles from??

Pebble tiles are from italy:

http://blmarmi.com/

They do speak english so just contact them and ignore the prices as they should do a decent deal.

Rest of the tiles are from:

http://www.floorgres.it/en/prods-159-1.asp

In gold and can be obtained at a reasonable price from:

http://www.ceramictile.co.uk/

but its a case of choose them off the italian website and find out what The Ceramic Tile Company Ltd can get them for.

[Simpo Two]

Dupont666 said:

And if you are not willing to pay £65+ minimum a sq m, you end up with the filled in tiles that look st and the holes can be up to 2" in diameter that have been fixed... plus you have to find a non acidic cleaner otherwise it will dissolve.

It's gone up then; 5 years ago I paid £28psm for very good filled/honed travertine from www.colchester-tiles.co.uk/index.php. You then coat it with glaze to protect it.

[Dupont666]

Simpo Two said:

Dupont666 said:

And if you are not willing to pay £65+ minimum a sq m, you end up with the filled in tiles that look st and the holes can be up to 2" in diameter that have been fixed... plus you have to find a non acidic cleaner otherwise it will dissolve.

It's gone up then; 5 years ago I paid £28psm for very good filled/honed travertine from www.colchester-tiles.co.uk/index.php. You then coat it with glaze to protect it.

was looking in several places in March this year and they show the best ones but the stock is not great and as for places like tops tiles... just dont, biggest filled hole I saw was 3 inches... and that was £45 a sq m

[s3fella]

Is there anyone in UK that does those small pebble resin style tiles. Having bought motorbike spares from Italy, (well i say bought, i paid for them then nothing arrived for over a year), I'd rather source them in UK!

[Dupont666]

s3fella said:

Is there anyone in UK that does those small pebble resin style tiles. Having bought motorbike spares from Italy, (well i say bought, i paid for them then nothing arrived for over a year), I'd rather source them in UK!

Cant be sourced from the uk.

[e-mail]

They dont bite and remember to pay on CC/BACS, they were very quick when the courier bust the first basin and shipped out a second immediately.

Last time I talked to them, it was to this person:

Alfredo Lo Savio, their Sales manager.

[TVR1]

Dupont666 said:

Oh and did I mention the gunge and crap that can get caught in the rolled versions that mean the grout goes black with mould?

hey Dupont

Have the grout lines gone mouldy? Shouldn't have happened this quick (if at all) your chap hasn't used microban/antibacterial grout? (Mapei/BAL for example) Naughty of him. I think I mentioned this? Has the silicone sealant gone mouldy too? same problem if it has-British Standards recommend antibacterial grout/sealant in kitchens and damp areas (bathrooms/wetrooms) . If you havn't filled the trav, I really suggest you get it done. Solution is to clean trav, regrout and re-seal.

Although.....I may be able to fit you in before I migrate in December

[Dupont666]

TVR1 said:

Dupont666 said:

Oh and did I mention the gunge and crap that can get caught in the rolled versions that mean the grout goes black with mould?

hey Dupont

Have the grout lines gone mouldy? Shouldn't have happened this quick (if at all) your chap hasn't used microban/antibacterial grout? (Mapei/BAL for example) Naughty of him. I think I mentioned this? Has the silicone sealant gone mouldy too? same problem if it has-British Standards recommend antibacterial grout/sealant in kitchens and damp areas (bathrooms/wetrooms) . If you havn't filled the trav, I really suggest you get it done. Solution is to clean trav, regrout and re-seal.

Although.....I may be able to fit you in before I migrate in December

no Im cool with mine I opted for ceramic, with grout and then a layer of sealant and touch wood all is good, no cracks, all settled and no leaks... decided travatine look ceramic was better and mine are almost indistingiushable (sp) from the real ones to the touch.

[m3jappa]

I think travertine went downhill when the developers started using the £15 per m crap, at that time it just lost its appeal for me (except for good quality silver trav which you will pay through the nose for and imo need a certain type of room/design to make it work).

Clean limestone is my favourite after looking at so much stone. Yes ceramic looking limestone can be had and yes its very good but to me its still ceramic and being a snob loses its appeal

Got mine from tramer tiles, rainham who were very very good in that they let me sift through about 6 un opened packs so i could find the best! Cost about £30 per m2 for 600x400 and are very clean and quite consistent (by that i mean there were a few darker/lighter tiles but not too many to worry about).
When sealed quite a lot have a diagonal veining/stripe through them which looks awesome.

Bathroom





Ensuite/bedroom

Got a glass wall going in front of where the shower is to seperate the two rooms
from this

to this

[Gids]

Ours were from Porcelanosa, Sahara Blanco & Duo Gris:



price was around £60 a sq m

[Emsman]

Where are you in the uk and how much do you need???
If you are after travertine I know a place that's running out stock, 2 sizes, about £6 a piece from memory,equates to £25 ish a metre- can't remember specific size but will find out?
It's superb quality- I used some on a job a while ago.

[danyeates]

Mine:



Close up:

[TVR1]

Always like tile pics... I will pop up some of my work when I get home...only a couple of critiques with those pics though and you may not have noticed and I hope it doesn't bug you after I mention them

m3jappa....setting out is quite good, other than the bath panel. It may have looked better if they had moved up half a course, so that you did'nt have slivers at the top and bottom, although this may have caused an issue around the window.

Gids....nice! Good to see an effort has been made to keep the grout lines running through the mosaic tiles.

danyeates.....again setting out. The cream tiles would have looked better moved over half a course to the wall. This would have left you a full tile on the left and no slivers.

[Simpo Two]

TVR1 - the Michele Roux Jr of tiling

I like the 'wallpaper' tiles. Maybe too dark in a small bathroom but certainly striking.

[danyeates]

TVR1 said:

danyeates.....again setting out. The cream tiles would have looked better moved over half a course to the wall. This would have left you a full tile on the left and no slivers.

There is a whole white tile just after the shower door. It's a small stud wall which comes out to house the shower. The shower door is set back into the studwall by about half a tile. So there's a whole tile at one end, then that small tile at the other end. If it was moved over, the small tile would have been at the other end of the small studwall.