Posts Tagged ‘grouting’

Once you have placed all your full tiles you can move on to cutting tiles and placing the cut tiles. This process is the longest part to tiling and possibly the most complicated part. There are two tools for cutting tiles, a manual tile cutter for when you need to cut a straight line through…

Once you have prepared your subfloor(Part 1) and mixed your adhesive(Part 2) you can start laying tiles. We learnt in Part 2, how to mix  the adhesive. Lets recap a few main points to get you back up to speed. Step 6: Applying your adhesive (Main points) Use your trowel to spread the adhesive Press adhesive…

This is a DIY Tiling series to help you through your tiling project. In Part 1 we spoke about preparing your sub-floor and planning your tile layout. In Part 2 we are going to look at mixing and preparing tile adhesive for laying your tiles. Things to do before getting started with laying tiles Firstly,…

DIY tiling is easy if you follow the basic floor preparation steps and tick all the boxes before commencing your exciting project. You must ensure you have done your research before embarking on this challenge. You don’t want to waste countless hours tilling and have it turn out wrong. Over the next couple of weeks,…