How To Tile A Wall With An Uneven Ceiling

We re doing a kitchen remodel and we re prepping to have a tile backsplash installed on one wall from the countertop to the ceiling.

How to tile a wall with an uneven ceiling. Before i start cutting the final row of tiles where the wall meets the ceiling the ceiling is slightly uneven. The usual way to lay tile diagonally is to mark 45 degree diagonal lines on the wall or floor. The tiles are now all up although there is an uneven gap where the top tile meets the ceiling ranging from half an inch to 2 inches. Back buttering is a trick used for tiles of uneven thickness like ungauged slate or handmade tiles extremely large tiles or for tiles being installed on an uneven surface.

The uneven ceiling issue is the story of my life in a 120 year old house. There s a window on this wall which the sink is centered on. The area of the wall to be tiled minus the area of the window is 37 square feet. Skip trowel texture in which you spray texture in blotches and then flatten with a drywall knife and slap brush texture in which you apply the texture with a paint roller and a special brush are two relatively easy to apply coatings.

Repeat the process for the rest of the installation and. I think you won t notice it eventually. The questions i have are. With the uneven ceiling level you would normally level or laser a horizontal line that runs around the shower enclosure at the top of the tile if leaving a top border tile free see below then measure your row lines down from there to the bottom and start with any bottom trip and cuts and actually place the tile from bottom up to the top.

The mortar is spread. Ditto on the staggering the 50 50 brick is not recommended for those sized tiles. The problem is that the wall is uneven. The wedge will pull the tiles together and create a smooth straight installation evening out any bumps or jogs caused by the uneven wall.

But when that angle isn t 45 degrees as with the diamond shaped tile you see here getting exact lines is even harder. Presently at the top of first row of tiles the gap between the top of the tile to the ceiling is 15cm and this lowers to 13 5cm and the end of the final row. Add a coat of flat ceiling paint to absorb light and minimize shadows even more.