Tile Layout & Order Pack
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.
Look inside
Two full pages from the pack, exactly as printed. Click either to read it at full size before you decide.
What is in it
- 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
- ✓ 11 printable pages
- ✓ 17 reference tables and checklists
- ✓ A second PDF worked out from the numbers you enter
- ✓ No account needed — just an email address
- ✓ Instant download; link valid 7 days
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The pack complements the free calculators — they do the arithmetic, it carries the specifications and the plan they cannot know.