The proper spacing for wall tiles two and four inch tiles.
Standard wall tile spacing.
Six and 8 inch tiles don t feature the self locking nubs that 4 inch tiles do.
Learn more about brick spacing here.
The key difference in tile type in relation to grout lines is whether you tile is rectified or not.
Glazed thin brick in a custom color for barebottle brewing.
Popular tile spacer sizes not to scale.
Two inch tiles are factory spaced and sheet mounted.
With brick you will need to know ahead of time what grout space you intend on installing at as that will affect how much overage you should order to complete your project.
However this is the only part of the standard addressing joint spacing.
You will see that it is not specific.
Taking british standards into consideration as well as common practice it is recommended that wall spacers are 2 3mm with 2mm covering the majority of requirements and floor spacers 3 5mm.
Therefore the spacing is predetermined.
For regular format tiles between 12 by 12 and 16 by 16 inches you can stay with those measurements or go up to 3 16 depending on the tile and the look you want.
Common practice is 2 3mm for wall tiles and 3 5mm for floor tiles.
3 8 grout space is the industry standard for glazed thin brick.
Six and eight inch tiles.
If you want a standard look tile installers recommend grout lines of 1 16 inch for walls and 1 8 inch for floors.