This is our Tile Selections post. The Tile meeting was by far the easiest of any of our appointments. We went there previously twice to see the range and get an idea of what we wanted. The place is tiny and their range even smaller. Their 'entertainment' room for kiddies was stuffy and we had to jar the door open with a chair.
Anyway, the tile consultant seemed pretty experienced, especially with the speed she was mapping out all the tile zones in their mark up software. She suggested we go for a simple look to match our Espresso Ligna cabinets. My wife agreed and picked these Belgium Stone Diamond 600x300 tiles for walls and floors.
We also picked a darker brown Belgium Stone Lavagna Natural 600x300 tile to work as a feature wall for each bathroom.
I wasn't a big fan of 'simple' and luckily my wife was clever to suggest that we could use my selected tile just for the Master Ensuite... I chose the Pearl Ivory Polished 600x600
Tiles were much more expensive than I thought. Originally, in our initial visits, we were told these were $55 per square meter. During the actual consultation we were advised the $55 is the upgrade price for areas that already have tiles. If you want to use these tiles in more areas (eg. a full wall tiling where there were no tiles as standard), the price goes up to ~$100 (can't remember exactly) per square meter. We promptly removed wall tiling from some of our walls where originally we wanted full wall tiling in all bathrooms.
Hi Jerry,
ReplyDeleteLike the look of those tiles, I was told the PD Tiles Boutique lists the prices of the tiles including labour costs, that $55 per square metre seems like just for tiles, how much were the labour costs quoted?
Hi Danny, the costs are inclusive of labour. Bear in mind though that the standard base price of the house already included tiling so the $55 is purely the additional cost of the tile compared to the standard one.
DeleteHi Jerry, the base price of the house includes wet area tiles (presumably 400 x 400 ceramic), did you include the Prestige Flooring Pack in your contract? I am currently weighing up doing tiling and carpets (aside from the mandatory wet areas) after handover vs getting the Prestige Flooring Pack and upgrading the tiles and carpets.
DeleteHi Danny, We took the flooring pack and have the standard cat 2 carpets and bolero floorboards. We thought it was less hassle doing it with PD and it is also included in the building warranty
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