Larger the Tile Is Lesser the Need Is for Grout Lines
So the day has come, and you are finally ready to dive into your flooring selection process. As you start clicking through the options, maybe you are realizing that there is a lot more to floor tile than just colors or patterns. From materials, to size, etc. there is a lot to take in and process. Often when consulting with designers and homeowners, we find that tile size is one of the more significant aspects of design that needs to be considered. From grout lines to visual appeal, the size of your tile can have a huge impact on the resulting look in a space. This brings us to large tile flooring.
Every day more people are choosing large tile flooring for their interiors including relatively small areas such as kitchen and bathrooms. Newest tiles and designs are only available in large sizes. In every international flooring show, everybody’s’ focus is on large format. But what happened to the old tiles? Why are tiles becoming bigger and bigger?
Large Tile Flooring Minimizes the Grout.
Large Tile Flooring Is Not New.
Invisible Grout Lines
Please Think Twice If You’re Considering 24″x24″ Tiles for a New Project.
South Florida is the heart of tile business in our country. Flooring trends start here and spread to the rest of the nation beginning from NY. If you’re shopping for a flooring project in our area, you are already aware that most people are suggesting large tiles and there are fewer samples of 24″x24″ tiles in tile stores. You may want to listen to them. Today, we all want less clutter and open spaces in our interiors. Along for that purpose, large tile flooring is an excellent way to bring an open space feel to the interiors. Take advantage of the abundance of large format floor tiles with the nation’s most competitive prices. We’re already getting lots of interest in our large tiles from other states where customers can’t find the same selection or the same competitive prices that we have here.
Compare the pictures of two floors with the same type of tiles in different sizes. The floors in the first picture have 24″x24″ tiles. The floors in the second picture have 48″x48″ tiles.
See the diagram showing Grout Lines with 24×24 and 30×30 tiles on the same size floors.
WHAT SIZES ARE CONSIDERED LARGE?
Porcelain tiles starting from 30″x30″ size up to 36″x36″ size are the ones what we call large. Tiles, bigger than the 36″x36″ size are those that we call extra-large or jumbo-size tiles.
What size is better? Large or Extra-Large
The most frequent question that we get from our customers is: should I buy 24″x 48″ or 30″x 30″ or go for a bigger size like 48″x48″ or 30″x60″? What size is more popular? When remodeling the floors, beside the price of the tile, the cost of the installation, along with the costs setting materials are the factor that we have to consider. Whereas, the cost of the tile gets higher as the size gets bigger, most contractors would charge the same for 24″x48″, 30″x 30″, and 32″ x 32″ size tiles. However, extra-large tiles would bring extra installation costs. Because these tiles require more manpower to lay and more setting materials to level. Also, extra-large tiles require apps 5% more waste factor for the cuts as opposed to standard 10% waste of the larger ones. What we can tell from what see from our customers, large sizes are more popular than extra-large sizes for they cost less and their installation cost less. On the other hand, if the extra cost of installation for 30″x 60″ or 48″ x 48″ is within the budget, bigger is definitely better.