Start with your most visual corner and place a row of tiles
in my example i'm using 24 by 24 tiles and here's a rough layout of my bathroom floor plan and what
it looks like as you can see there's a lot going on so this is a perfect example to explain how to
lay out a bathroom floor tile or if you're doing a small room that'll be even easier because you will
have less features if you want you can measure and document everything out to do the layout on paper
however i'll show you how to do without that the idea is to have as many bigger pieces
as possible in the most visual spots as possible by bigger i mean the pieces have to be at least
half of the tile or greater whenever possible try to have a whole tile or close to a hole tile once
i laid my tile out like this you can see i'll have a small piece right here and along this
edge and this edge over here since i don't want these small pieces here's what i'm going to do
i want to move these pieces that way but i'll have to make sure that the pieces on the sides
are not too small as well to do that i need to measure how much i need to move these pieces
and it looks like i need to move roughly about ten and a half inches next what you do is measure here
and see what you have so since my tile is two feet and this is where we're at the remaining
is measured to be at 38 inches so that means i can move 10 more inches with no problem and still be
at 48 inches which will fit exactly two tiles in this space then you do the same thing on the
other section so here i have two feet for one tile four feet is another tile and i'll have another
10 inches to spare for the third tile which basically i'll have about two thirds of a tile
here now the last thing of this piece is to see if i can move this that way so i measure it here
to see how much i need to move it and i measured this way to see what i got here so at five feet
i'm at almost one piece and that six is a whole piece so adding four more inches to 66 puts me
at 70 which means i can fit a big tile that i just have to cut two inches off which isn't bad at all
so now that this tile fits in all the way over there it's one full piece i don't have to cut i
put another one to make sure that they're straight and now i can take measurements here to see how
far in i have to push and measurements right here to push all this that way and do my cuts on the
three tiles so here's my first piece which is one right here it's a 24 inch piece so i'm going
to have a 27 8 on this side 13 and three quarters on this side and 7 5 8 on this side so it's going
to go like this into that slot over there and the way i determine that is basically measuring
here and that's where 13 and a quarter comes from and then measuring that side over here
and that's where 7 5 8 comes from and then you add those together and you get
27 8 which is going to be the size of this piece so now i'm going to cut this off and
basically do the same thing on this one and then see where that one comes out to be to see what
i need to cut also i need to measure this side to give me 5 inches and 3 8. once i made the cut this
is how it looked like there's enough room here because the baseboard is going to cover it and
here's my edge so i went ahead and cut this piece too i put it made sure it's flush with this edge
and tried to minimize the gap and that way now i can measure this distance and then measure this
distance and figure out what my piece needs to be over here which i actually cut and i'm going to
install right now so this piece from the first try doesn't fit as you can see i need to cut off more
on this side i'm gonna have a baseboard covering this anyway so i can cut off more but as you
can see it's smaller gap and a bigger gap here and i still have some room in the tile to move
that way and i'm binding right here and i can't move this tile that way because it's already up
against the wall so i gotta cut this edge right here too a little bit we'll see how it goes
and just like that we moved the entire rope to the left
now it's time to do this side so with everything calculated out looks like i messed up a little bit
because as you can see i'm gonna have small pieces down this wall um which i didn't account for or
nor did they forget so even though it's nice and big pieces over here i don't have small
pieces here i'm gonna have small pieces there um which is fine at this point but in the future
what i could have done is could have moved it another three inches so let's say halfway up to
here and that way this edge would align right here straight it would have been probably a lot better
um with full pieces here and then this piece would have been you know like that so yeah but uh
you know it's one of those things that you just live and learn next step is to start laying
the tile and if you want to see how i cut the toilet hole then check out this video right here