how do i know how many tiles i need to tile my bathroom walls?

Answer 1

You also need to take into account if the tiles are plain or patterned.
Remember there is unlikely to be a round number on any surface!

You will also need to remember spaces between the tiles.
Use the below website and it will work it out for you!

Answer 2

As with most of the other responses, the most important step is determining your square footage. Square footage is easily calculated by multiplying the length and width of the the wall. By adding all of your wall space together you should have a fairly close estimate as to the total wall space.
Upon determining your total wall space it is then a matter of figuring out what size tile you want to use and the amount of space you would like to have between the tiles (for grout lines).
Typically, your standard wall application such as a back splash will use four or six inch tiles with one quarter to one eighth inch spacing.
As such, if your total wall space measures 12 ft w and 8 ft t your total wall space would be 96 sq ft. 96 Sq ft calculates into 144 * 96 or 13824 sq in. By dividing 13824 by 6 * 6 you get 384 tiles. You may want to then factor in an additional 10% for breakage and Miss-cuts (384 * 10% = 38).
Another easy way is to take your measurements and visit daltile.com and use the tile estimating calculator which is relatively accurate.
Good luck

Answer 3

Measure the amount of wall space that needs tiling (length and width) multiply them to find the surface area, and go to a hardware store equiped with those details. On every box of tiles there should be an indication of how many feet / meters squared the tiles will fill.
(take a calculator in case you have to do the maths yourself)

Answer 4

work out how long each wall is and divide by the width of each tile, this is how many you need for each row.

work out how high the room is and divide by the height of each tile, this is how many rows.

Round both answers up then multiply together.

Buy this many tiles, as they usually come in packs of 25 you need four packs per 100.

Always buy more than you need, the store will usually accept unopened packs for a full refund but there is no obligation on them to keep the same shade or style in stock if you need to get some more.

Answer 5

You need to measure the area that you are going to tile

people at a tile shop will know how many tiles that you will need based upon the square footage of the space that you are going to tile.

Answer 6

The term to what you are asking about is "packing out", and yes you can do it to a certain degree and the type of adhesive used will dictate how thick you can "pack out" a tile. If you are using ready mixed tubbed adhesive then you really shouldn't add more than 3 to 5mm thickness of adhesive to the back of the tile, where as if you are using cement based powdered adhesive that you mix yourself then you can go upto 10mm thickness. Obviously the extra adhesive will take longer to dry, often upto a week or more, depending on room temp etc, but you should be tiling using spacers anyway to keep the grout lines even, so the tile will still be held in place with a spacer. And also, do not use PVA to seal a wall, you use a propper acrylic primer for that, where as years ago everybody used PVA, which is more than proven to weaken the mechanical grip of the adhesive to the wall.

Answer 7

Measure it.

Fools guide to tiling bathroom wall:- 1st take a measure tape and measure the area in which the tiles have to go, then when you go to buy the tiles measure them, then buy as many as it needs to fill the space!!!

Answer 8

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Answer 9

measure the area of the where you want to place your tiles, width and length=the place of the tiles. after that take one tile and measure its area( length and width). with the answer u get from the tile divide it with measurement you got in the first part (place of the tiles)
example place where you want the tile

= W5m*L15m
=75mitre

mesurement of one tile W15cm*L15cm
=225cm

W=width, L=length, m=meters, cm= cent meters

since 75 is in meters you have to change it to centimetre
so there are 100 centimetres in a meter.
so its 75*100=7500centimetres.

the final answer is 7500 divided by 225
=33.333333333333333
=33 tiles

hope this will help and i hope i have made it easy........

Answer 10

Measure width of the wall and then height of wall in metres. Multiply these figure gives you how many square metres you need to cover. Average 6' by 6' ( 300mm by 300mm) tiles you will need a box of 44 to cover 1 square metre