How Do You Lay Out Patterns For A Tile Floor?
Floor tile can be laid out in all kinds of ways, but the usual standard is either a grid pattern or a diamond pattern, laid out from the center of the floor (so the edges by the walls are consistent at both ends). It’s important that you know before installation where the tiles are going to be positioned in relation to the walls, and adjust them if necessary so you don’t have cuts of less than two inches, which are difficult to make and look bad. Measure and mark the middle of each wall, at the floor. Pull your chalk snap line across the middle of the floor, from one mark to the opposite one. Snap the line. Stretch the string in the other direction across the floor, so it intersects the previously-laid line. Set a square at the intersection and adjust the position of the string to square it with the first line. Snap the second line, so the floor is divided into four even squares, with a “plus” sign across the whole floor. Set your tiles loosely on the floor along both lines, starting
