Regardless of the style of decoration, the home renovation must be done with tiles as a building material. To choose tiles according to your budget, you must learn how to calculate the number of tiles used.

There is a wide range of tiles on the surface and prices vary greatly. Often choose a tile with a high price of a dozen dollars, in the end, the whole house down, the total price of tiles will vary by thousands or tens of thousands of dollars, this is because there is no consideration of the relationship between the amount of tiles. Today to teach you to calculate the number of tiles, the method is very simple. 

Step 1: calculate the area to be tiled

The principle of calculating the amount of tiles is: first calculate the area of tiles needed, then divide by the size of each tile, and finally the number of tiles required. To determine the area to be tiled, you must first determine which areas are to be tiled and then use a ruler to measure the flat area of the area.

Generally speaking, the floor wall tiling is more common, while the top of the house is equipped with a ceiling or ceiling, so basically will not use to tile. The living room, dining room and bedroom floors can be tiled or have wooden floors, but the balcony, bathroom and kitchen floors must be tiled. If the floor is an ordinary rectangle or square, simply multiply the measured length and width; if it is an irregular shape, you need to calculate the overall area first, and then calculate the excess area, and reduce it more.

Similar to the floor, the walls of the living room, dining room and bedroom can be tiled, painted or wallpapered, while the balcony, bathroom and kitchen walls must be tiled. It should be noted that because of the ceiling, the bathroom and kitchen do not need to be tiled all over the wall, if the floor is 2.8m high, then the wall tiles only need to be laid to 2.6m high. Then measure out the length of each wall separately.

Step 2: Choose the size of the tiles

After determining the area to be tiled, we can then choose the size of the tiles. Tiles can be divided into the exterior, interior and floor tiles, which are not all the same size. As external tiles are less commonly used, we will only discuss internal and floor tiles this time.

The general sizes of floor tiles are 30*30cm, 30*60cm, 33*33cm, 40*40cm, 60*60cm, 80*80cm, 1*1m, 1.2*1.2m, etc. In larger spaces such as the living room and dining room, the use of 80 * 80cm or larger size tiles can look a more high-grade atmosphere; while the bedroom, kitchen, bathroom and balcony, it is suitable for the use of 60 * 60cm or smaller size tiles.

The general size of the wall tiles are 10*10cm, 10*20cm, 20*30cm, 25*40cm, 30*45cm, 30*60cm, 40*80cm, etc. The size is quite small than the floor tiles and is still mainly rectangular. Whether it is wall tiles or floor tiles, choose the size according to your budget (the larger the tile size the more expensive) and the room area to choose.

After choosing the floor and wall tiles, don't forget to calculate the number of skirting and waist pieces. Compared with the floor and wall tiles, the skirting and waist piece of the calculation is much simpler, directly divided by the length of the wall skirting or waist piece of the length, you can come up with the number of footings and waist piece required.

Step 3: Choose the tiling method used

The increasing number of decorating styles has led to a variety of tiling methods. Consumers can choose the most suitable for their own paving, to obtain satisfactory results at the same time, but also to show their own personality. The following is a selection of the most representative of the three paving methods to explain the calculation of the amount of tiles.

1. horizontal paving and vertical paving

Paving the wall in a parallel way when paving, brick seams aligned and do not leave seams, while using the colour of the brick close to the hooking agent hooking processing. This way of paving looks fresh, neat and tidy, and rectangular tiles laid horizontally or vertically can make the whole space look spacious. This way the amount of tiles is the easiest to calculate, directly divide the area by the size of each tile, and then take the whole number, and then add one or two more tiles as loss can be.

2. diamond-shaped paving method

Some people who like individuality like the diamond-shaped paving method, which can make the walls and floors look more distinctive and can see more different lines. To calculate the number of tiles for this paving method, in fact, is not difficult, but also with the area divided by the size of each tile, and then take the whole. The difference is that this paving method is very demanding on the decorator, and tile loss will also be higher, with a loss rate of 15%.

3. Combination paving method

Different sizes, styles and colours of tiles can be paved through a certain combination of ways to present different effects on the ground, to avoid a single tone and uniform paving method, in key areas, such as hospitality areas, TV backdrops and other places can wave wire embellished with an edge or even the use of decorative painting. This paving method is the most difficult to calculate, to calculate the number of tiles used in each area in steps, then add 10%-15% loss, and finally add the amount of each type of tile together.

The method of calculating the amount of tiles used is divided into three steps. The first step is to determine which places to use tiles, respectively, to calculate the area to be tiled (the ground directly long by wide, more or less complementary; wall-length multiplied by the floor height minus the ceiling height); the second step is to determine the size of the tiles used in each place where tiling is required; the third step is based on the area, tile size and tiling method to choose the calculation formula (different tiling loss is not the same). Clearly calculating the amount of tiles needed to decorate, can help according to the budget, easy to choose the most suitable tile online products.