Where the first tile goes, and what to put in the trolley
Where the first tile goes, and what that decides. The edge cut for every room run at every tile size, why large format punishes a bad start, and then the thing that decides whether large format works at all: how flat the floor has to be first. Lippage is linear in tile length, so a floor built to the usual 1/8in in 10 ft is fine for 24in tile and not for 48in — the line sits at 30in. Then a room worked end to end, waste by pattern, trowel notch, thin-set and grout quantities. 11 pages, printable, with a fill-in sheet for your own room.
What’s inside
Why the tile count cannot tell you where the first tile goes
The minimum edge cut for each tile size, and why it rises with the tile
How flat the floor has to be before the tile goes down — lippage by deviation and tile length
Why the same floor is eight times worse under 48in tile than under 6in
The biggest tile your measured floor will actually take
Bags of levelling compound if the answer is too small
What the edge cut actually comes to, for nine room runs at 12in, 18in and 24in tile
When to shift the starting line, and exactly what the cut becomes if you do
Why large format punishes a bad start twice over
A whole room worked end to end: layout, boxes, trowel, thin-set and grout
Waste by pattern — straight, brick, diagonal and herringbone — with the reason for each
Box counts by floor area, including the spare that survives a dead dye lot
Trowel notch by tile size, banded on the longer edge, with coverage per bag
Thin-set bags by floor area for seven tile sizes
Grout weight per 100 sq ft by tile size and joint width
Which joint width belongs where, and what each one costs you
The order of work before the first tile, and a fill-in sheet for your own room
Plus a second PDF, worked out for you
Run one of the free calculators first and buy from that page, and this sheet is computed from your own figures. Buy from here and the pack still arrives complete — the sheet simply has no numbers of yours to work from yet.
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