Remodeling our bathroom. Between the shower and the cabinets, there’s only a rectangle roughly 4 by 6 feet that will be tiled. We’re planning 12×12 tiles, laid at 45 degrees. What’s a good safe overage to buy so we won’t run out of tile and will have one or two for later repairs?
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You can use the standard 10% overage and be fine. If you have a 4'x6' area to cover, that would be ~24 tiles without grout joints. If you bought yourself 27 tiles you'd have more then enough to do the area on a 45° angle.
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I agree with Joe. 10% is fine.
We are currently installing about 1400 sf of 18" square tile in a hallway (commercial). 10% has worked fine for the diagonal layout.