Wood Look Tile Grout Spacing

Large format tile installation needs to be considered differently from regular tile installation.

Wood look tile grout spacing.

If you re using small format tiles such as those 8 by 8 inches and smaller the tiles may come with built in lugs that make spacers unnecessary if you want a standard look tile installers recommend grout lines of 1 16 inch for walls and 1 8 inch for floors. This wood subfloor is being flattened with a feather finish product floor flatness revisited. And tile as large as 48 is becoming common. When we moved i did the same tile different color crawlspace foundation w 3 4 ply and wanting to achieve a more wood look i disregarded all recommendations and went with a 1 16 spacing and non sanded grout and couldn t be happier.

First house was 2400sf all tile concrete slab with 1 8 spacing and sanded grout. Create a starting line for the tile measure from the center of the room to the starting wall then subtract the 1 4 inch expansion gap and the width of two tiles and two spacers. Because the surface of wood look tiles often includes high and low areas to mimic real wood and because their glazes tend to be rough in texture to minimize slipping removing all of the grout haze during installation is critical. We recommend a 3 16 grout size for our ceramic tile line.

I have the same. That includes grout joints too. If smaller spacers like 1 8 are used it will accentuate the size difference of handmade tile. This thickness leaves room for the natural variation in.

Grout left on the surface can make the tile appear dull or spotty especially in indirect lighting. For regular format tiles between 12 by 12 and 16 by 16 inches you can stay with those measurements or go up to 3 16 depending on the. Since hardwood floors don t have much of a joint you don t want your tile to either. However large tile can be challenging to install.

Now 12 x 24 is the new 12 x 12. Large tiles give you so much design freedom. Finished grout lines will vary from 1 16 to 3 16. However with wood look tile you really don t want the grout to steal the show you want it to disappear.

Note that using the smallest grout possible will increase installation time. Minimum grout lines the quick answer is nothing closer than 1 16. If you want to know why please keep reading. When re modeling floors bathroom or a kitchen almost everybody wants to have the minimum grout lines between their tiles.

The previous post discussed the importance of a flat floor when installing wood look tile. Plank tiles often look best when the length of the tile runs parallel to the longest wall in the room. Consider the grout joint size we ve seen a lot of professional installers who use a thin grout joint when installing wood like tile and then a blending color that mimics real hardwood.