Tile Layout & Order Pack

Where the first tile goes, and what to put in the trolley

A tile calculator divides the floor by the tile and adds a margin. It is arithmetic, and it is right. It also has no idea where you mean to put the first tile — and that single choice decides whether the last row is a comfortable cut or a three-quarter-inch ribbon along the most looked-at edge in the room. Nothing in the tile count changes. The floor is ruined all the same. This is the setting-out worked out properly: the edge cut for real room runs at three tile sizes, how narrow is too narrow and by how much to shift when it is, waste by pattern, the box count with the spare that protects you from a dead dye lot, trowel notch by tile size with the bags to buy, and grout weight from the joint you are actually using. 9 pages, printable, ending in the order of work and a fill-in sheet for your own room. Advisory: measure your own room and dry-lay before committing adhesive.

What’s inside

Why the tile count cannot tell you where the first tile goes, with the minimum cut width for each tile size

Order of work before the first tile, and the fill-in sheet for your own room

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
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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