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Posted by Robin2728.com on October 12, 2007, 7:24 pm
> Robin,
>
> dadIO gave you excellent advice. I don't think you are tiling
> just one small space, the comment has to do with the entire room.
> The entire room has one floor, any joint has to go all the way
> across the room each way. Discover or chalk a center line each
> way. Loose lay the tiles to see how the borders will fall. You
> want the borders to be close to a 1/2 tile or more. If you have
> very small borders by starting the pieces on the line, try it
> again with the center of the tile on the center line.
>
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>
>
> >> Robin2728.com wrote:
> >> > I am laying out vinyl tile for my bathroom and in one section
> >> > with
> >> > the molding removed is 26 inches wide from the wall to the
> >> > base of
> >> > the shower molding. The wood wall molding is 1" thick so I am
> >> > left with 2". This section is about 4 ft.
>
> >> 1. Find and mark the center lines for both directions of the
> >> room
>
> >> 2. Starting at the intersection of the center lines, dry lay
> >> tiles to
> >> find best fit. There are two possible starting positions in
> >> both
> >> directions...
> >> (a) edge of tile on line(s)
> >> (b) center of tile on line(s)
> >> It's OK to have tile edge on one line, tile center on other
> >> line. All
> >> depends on room and tile size.
>
> >> --
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> >> dadiOH
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> > Thanks for your reply. It is one section of the bathroom that
> > measures
> > 26" wide by 36 long. I am working with 12" tiles.
>
> > Robin
It is an L shaped room, no matter how I do it I still have the section
that measures
26 inches wide x 36 inches long.
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