Matching Wall And Floor Tile Grouting

Perhaps you ve heard rules of thumb like ceramic tiles are for walls and porcelain tiles are for floors or small tiles go on the wall large tiles go on the floor to set the record straight these old adages are well hogwash.

Matching wall and floor tile grouting.

As mentioned above set out the floor first to govern the lines for the wall. Squeeze caulk onto a mixing board making sure you use enough to complete the entire job it ll be hard to match if you have to add more later. If your room is off square you might find the lines creeping off but should be ok in a bathrooom. Use whichever side or corner of the float is necessary to fully compress grout into the entire.

Use grout to color match the caulk. Anyway just curious how everyone else s tiles look do your grout lines match up or am i being pedantic. All the grout lines match up perfectly but there are small variations in the tile sizes resulting in the grouting being variable widths. Darker grout can.

It really comes down to three options the best way to choose grout is to decide if you want it to match. That ll keep you from messing up a finished floor. You can put ceramic or porcelain on the wall or the floor and both the wall and the floor can be decked out in large or small tile. Our wall tiles are floor to ceiling 300 x 600mm vertical and the floor tiles are 300x300mm so no reason why they couldn t have matched up and i guess having 3m ceilings and.

Apply the grout diagonally across the tile joints to squish the grout into the joints photo 5. The centres of your tiles wall and floor need to be exactly the same so if the tiles are exactly the same size you have to use the same size spacers for wall and floor. Always grout the walls first for this how to grout tile project and after they re finished the floor. To match grout lines or not to match grout lines is one of the most common questions a client will ask.

I have 300 x 600 wall tiles and matching floor tiles but they only came in 300 x 300. Don t have photo s unfortunately as i didn t have my camera. Grout is generally the best choice for filling joints between tiles in showers or elsewhere. Then add colored grout to the caulk and mix thoroughly with a 3 in.