How Put Wall Tiles

To install ceramic wall tile use a level and measuring tape to mark the tile locations on the wall with chalk.

How put wall tiles.

Place the mosaic sheets along the wall. Step 1 prepare the wall. Grouting is not difficult to do well but it is even easier to do poorly. One key to success is to remember that grout has a limited working time and can dry before you know it if you grout an area that s too large the grout will set up and become difficult to work with or remove.

Use long sweeping motions to apply mortar to the wall and start placing your tiles in the marked locations. After all the penalty for poorly installed wall tile is a lifetime of having to look at the stuff. Next mix your grout and spread it into the gaps between the tiles using. Ceramic tiles can be installed directly on drywall plaster or if they are in moist areas onto green drywall or even better cement backer board.

To see where the tile will end at the top of the installation make a jury stick. Use a chisel and hammer if you need to remove existing tiles. Slightly rock the sheet up and down perpendicular to the trowel lines to collapse the ridges and help the tile settle into place. Put on a pair of safety goggles before you start removing the tile then place the chisel at a 45 degree angle between the tiles and hit the end of the chisel with the hammer to separate the tiles from the wall.

This line serves as your cutting guide to fit tile along the counter. Grouting is the final step of installing ceramic wall tile after the tile adhesive has fully cured. However wall tile installation has its own set of rules that you dare break at your own risk. Add tile spacers for help keeping the tile pieces lined up.

So let s look at the basics of wall tile installation that will make everything go a lot smoother less frustrating and less costly. Hold a tile at this spot accounting for a 1 8 inch expansion gap. Be sure to put spacers between each tile as you go. Follow the lines you made when the tiles were dry fit to the wall.

So if you re looking to put your tiles on a bathroom or kitchen wall be sure you get semi vitreous or impervious tiles. Then use a level to extend the line along the work area.