Floor Tile Layout Planning and Installation in the Bathroom
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- čas přidán 25. 08. 2024
- In this video I explain how I generally layout floor tile in a room but I also show how I plan the layout for the mosiac tile in the bathroom and cut the tiles around the shower drain. I then proceed with installing the tiles on the floor.
Materials used in the video:
mosiac tiles: www.floorandde...
1/4"x1/4" Trowel: www.floorandde...
Margin Trowel: www.homedepot....
4 1/2" grinder disc: www.homedepot....
Thinset Mortar: www.floorandde...
Flo FX Drain: flofx.com/prod...
in the initial dry lay out it seemed you had full tiles on the right wall and maybe 1/4 inch cuts on the left shower wall, seems to me if you just moved over that lay out about 1/8th, you would have full tile on both sides (wall tile would have covered) and bigger cuts around drain. also lay out and sheet placement is 2 very different things, so when you were actually installing, you had a half sheet on the left side and short of a full sheet on the right side, this made it so you had to add little cuts after the full sheet. you always try to never have to install individual tiles, always cuts should be attached to mesh, so all you needed to do was move over sheet placement to the right at least 2 inches, this would have avoided adding a cut instead of that cut being attached to the mesh. so sheet placement has nothing to do with lay out, you can have exactly the same lay out with different sheet placements. i spend a lot of time in sheet placement to avoid having to add little cuts individually. in a whole bathroom it might be impossible to get everything attached to mesh, but should be tried to avoid individual pieces. i even try and cut the drain out of a sheet, so i dont have to set any individual pieces . having all cuts attached to mesh is something that should be part of a lay out. anyways i do think your first dry lay out was correct if you just moved it over a little, it would have been bigger cuts on shower walls and drain, now once your side walls are installed, it might look like tiny slivers on sides and you have tiny slivers on drain sides, definitely looks like you would have been better off moving the lay out over 1/4 tile. besides that your work is very clean and awesome