How To Start Tiling A Wall
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How to start tiling a wall. A batten board is nothing more than a 1 x4 or 1 x2 board screwed directly into the wall horizontally. Then with a notched trowel work away from the vertical batten in horizontal strokes holding the blade at around 45. When you need to trim a tile before you lay it put the tile in place on the wall mark your cutting points and use a tile cutter or angle grinder to trim the tile to size. Scoop out a golf ball sized amount of adhesive onto a notched trowel and spread enough adhesive in a thin layer over the wall to hang 2 3 tiles at a time.
Starting in the corner of your two battens scoop up and apply some adhesive to the wall using your notched trowel. A batten board helps you start your bottom most course or row of tiles. Place your spacers between each tile as you go. Lightly nail a timber batten to the wall this will be your start point and all other tiles will line with this.
The height of a tile from the bottom make a true horizontal using a laser level or spirit level. Our how to tile a bathroom wall will give you all the help and advice you ll need to do this job well. Don t start it at the floor. When using ceramic tile try to find boxes with the same dye lot number.
Place your tiles on the wall. Measure each wall area calculating the width times height. With the mortar ready to go you can start placing your tiles. Instead bring it up to about 3 4 of the height of your tiles.
Just twist them into place sticking to the small area that you prepared for yourself. Then put your tile in place again to check the cut is right put some glue on the back and lay it in position. There s even advice on how to tile in and around a win. Determine how much tile you ll need.