Herringbone tiling is almost without doubt the most difficult tile design to fit and when its done on a wall 8 meters long and 2.8 meters high with tiles measuring 10 cm by 30 cm it becomes a bit of a challenge to say the least 🙂 The key to tiling it is to make sure the start is absolutely perfectly flat and then the first rows of tiles have to be fitted with exactly the same spaces, every gap between every tile has to be 3 mm because if its not then as the tile design progresses the gaps will get either bigger or smaller depending on the error, and if that’s not picked up quickly the tiles will have to be taken off and start again, fortunately that didn’t happen here which I guess is one of the advantages of being a tiler for so many...

Tiling a kitchen floor can have a dramatic effect on the look and feel of the whole house, if the tiles are a rustic or older style of tile then that can set the tone of that room and possibly the house too if the kitchen as it often is, is the center of the home. This is how it was in this house until the owners decided to update their tiles and replace the whole floor with a more modern clean looking tile. The tile they chose is ceramic and 45 cm square and the design very similar to Crema Marfil marble, and they also decided to replace the timber floor which used to cover the dining room side of the kitchen with the same tile, but before i could tile the floor i had to remove the existing tiles which in this case wasn’t easy as my kango broke and i had to use a hammer and chisel, that took a while. I’ve always thought tiling the whole floor with the same tile is a great idea as it makes the room look so much bigger and with their choice of tiles much much brighter now too, and the home owners are delighted in their choice of tile too because the kitchen now matches the style of the rest of their home which is very clean looking and modern. All in all this was a happy job with happy customers which makes it all worth while...