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Tho for some reason I prefer rectangles in bathroom, maybe subliminally influenced by memories of public loos & London underground stations? 🤔
As Guthers says, check your walls for flatness first, I think squares & mosaics can be easier to apply where walls are "quaint" (ie wonky), esp in older houses.
Tho for some reason I prefer rectangles in bathroom, maybe subliminally influenced by memories of public loos & London underground stations? 🤔
As Guthers says, check your walls for flatness first, I think squares & mosaics can be easier to apply where walls are "quaint" (ie wonky), esp in older houses.
mosaics will show every wonk and curve in the wall - not good at all - so bad to the degree that most professional tilers will refuse to touch them.
Ok on a new build that has just been freshly skimmed, any things else and no chance.
Metro tiles seem to be the rage at the moment or just giant splashbacks.
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Can only say that in 2013 I used mosaics to tile bathroom splashback on 200 yr-old house w. very wonky walls, and they're still perfect to this day :)
(Had just renovated & walls were freshly plastered tho).
If walls freshly plastered then they would have been fairly even - most people will just rip of old tiles and replace with new and not replaster or reboard unless absolutely necessary as can get real pricey real quick.
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If walls freshly plastered then they would have been fairly even - most people will just rip of old tiles and replace with new and not replaster or reboard unless absolutely necessary as can get real pricey real quick.
That's good to know. I think I might go with most people. Can't afford pricey and not keen on attempting replastering.
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If walls freshly plastered then they would have been fairly even - most people will just rip of old tiles and replace with new and not replaster or reboard unless absolutely necessary as can get real pricey real quick.
Sure, understood, and bow to your greater experience!
We had to fundamentally renovate anyway incl re-wiring and therefore re-plastering, as the house hadn't been touched since the 1960s - and that was by a bodger who somehow managed to install half a dozen "money-saving" but life-threatening faults -
~ "Additional wiring" beneath floorboards
~ Piping for bottled gas to baxi-boiler competing against CH could have exploded at any time
~ Numerous layers of plasterboard false ceiling held only by 1 central small bolt in living room could have collapsed at any time
~ Flues to 3 stoves (incl kitchen range) installed upside down. This actually had tragic consequences, as both the elderly people who'd lived & raised 3 kids there died from lung cancer. The kids somehow all survived into adulthood (I know one of them).
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