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My kitchen is about 5.5m long and 2.7m wide so long and thin.

My usual way would be to start a long line along the centre and tile outwards to each side.

Fixing a fishing line tight between screws along the centre and visually tiling up to 10 mm to one side of this.

Is this a good way to do it or is there a better way?

Tony

Normally a floor would be set out centre of door opening. Depends on other factors such as it doesn't work if it leaves a piddly rip of tile under the plinths.

whatever way you prefer to set it out. mark either end of the line and then ping a chalk line out and tile to that. Only using the one line is obviously the way you are used to doing it.

Better to work out centre lines for both directions. mark the first full tile lines making sure they are square. i cheat and use a lazer and so mark in pencil.

Setting out is one of the most important jobs.

It used to be the practice to lay tiles totally exact to make the tiles "not quite exact" but the currect trend seems to be to make them.

Is that the case?

you lay them the way that best fits the room. Ideally centre of door.

If centre of door leaves unsuitable rips then the setting out needs adjusting.

Never heard of doing any setting out exact so that it doesn't look exact. Not exact is off set lol and there are times when tiling will be set out off set.

That is why setting out is the most important job of any project. You can have tiling done by the current World Tiling Champion but if the setting out is wrong then anyone who sees the floor will just think it looks 5hit.

Sorry, I totally messed up what I was asking there! Lets try again!

It used to be the practice to fit tiles "not quite exactly" as that made them look like genuine laid tiles.

Now however it seems to be the norm to fit them to be absolutely clinically exact.

Is that right?

It has always been the way to use centre of door for setting out. If this makes the finished floor like awful then you use another feature.

So it will always be exact but not always from the same point. setting out in your kithcen could be a nightmare for 400X400 tiles but spot on for 400X350.

starting as you suggest above, single tile middlish of room, loose lay tiles the length and width of the kitchen from there, to form a cross...you'll soon see whether jour start point/line needs adjusting...