"Tiles" and Tribulations

I don't know how they did it!
All I am doing is a simple but much needed renovation and am cross eyed and bow legged from all the effort. I don't know how my parents got a whole dang house built from scratch. Its a bathroom makeover and a few other fixes and it is going to take foreverrrr plus two days!

Now on to more pertinent and useful facts. You may think that all bathroom tiles are being designed by moonlighting set designers from Indian TV soaps but if you are persistent and willing to go the extra mile ( specifically to Jagat Puri Sanitary and Tiles Market in East Delhi), you are likely to find what you are looking for.

Tiles are expensive, though you may get a good deal if you ask for "seconds"...then again these will not last you that long and several in the box maybe chipped and cracked, which makes the whole "seconds and thus cheap" issue redundant.

The bigger the wall tiles, the lesser the grout between them making them easier to clean. Same goes for tiles with "texture", less texture the better, though some designs can be hard to resist! The standard bathroom wall tile sizes are 10 x 13 inches and 18x 12 inches. There are square ones too but then we go back to that old grout and If that wasn't a concern I would love to get this!

Same may not true though for floor tiles, which need to have some texture so you wouldn't slip and break your fannydolittle. Your karigar needs to create a slant in the bathroom floor so the water will drain in the direction of, well the drain. This is a highly specialised skill. Once the slant in the floor is determined (and it is well within your rights to ask him to demonstrate its efficacy), the person who will lay the tiles will slice and grind the tiles to adhere to the aforementioned slant. SO, in this case, the smaller the tiles the easier the lay (ha ha!) and fewer slices of tiles.