Tiling your kitchen floor with ceramic, stone or porcelain evokes a feeling of strength, value, and durability. It is aesthetically appealing and about the same as a high-quality vinyl covering costs if you do it yourself. Other advantages are the higher valuation on an assessment of your property, buyers appeal (if you want to sell), and easy to care for the tile. But all of these benefits can be made zero if you can not prepare yourself, and then install the tiles in the correctManner.
Required Tools for the Job:
Tiles
Backer board
Drill wired (or wireless, extra battery if cordless)
Hammer
Chisels
Small piece of thin wood or laminate sample
Goggles
Dust mask
Circular Saw
Razor blades
Gloves (working and rubber)
Several clean bucket (5 gal households and smaller size)
Jam saw
Tape Measure
Level
Chalk line
Carpenter Square
Painter's Tape
Trowel ¼ inch from groove and smaller for the corners
Thin set
Acrylic additive, or put some thin had added
Mesh Seam Tape
Spatula
Tile spacers
Pencil
Wet saw or manual tile cutter
Tile Pliers
Grout
Rubber grout float
Sponges, towels and water
Silicone caulk
Tiles and sealing joints
Cleaner for tile
Steps to follow:
1. Determine the suitability of the> Floor tile you. If you've noticed, the ground is not level, you must use a leveling compound, which comes in powder form, in bags, in the same place you buy your supplies. This can be exploited to a floor of the otherwise solid earnings. Sometimes you may need to relocate a new subgroup to the strength you need. Most of the time, if a homeowner wants to install ceramic tile, it is over an existing vinyl floor. Neverinstalled directly on the linoleum floor, because the plate will pop later lose. Use a Tile Backer board. There are several types to choose from. It has a network of type, with the core looked like rough, crumbling cement. The other has a smooth cover with a smooth core. Both come in either ¼ inch or ½-inch format. I personally prefer the smooth core type because of the ease of use, and water resistance. Your choice of thickness will be determined by things such as the adjacentStock 's height, as well as things like how it applies to the dishwasher. Remove all movable equipment and furniture.
2. Select your tile to suit your personal preferences. Be sure to use a tile recommended for floors. Think of the surface of the tile, because you do not, can a tile that is extremely slippery to use in the kitchen. I have found that a less expensive tiles just as durable as the more expensive if it is properly installed. Even for beginners, itis much easier to use a square with a square tile in the square pattern, then after a complicated pattern to use.
3. Determine before the transfer Backer board, whether you are going to remove the baseboards too. Your baseboard will be shorter if you do not. To remove the baseboard and shoe molding (or quarter round), use a small thin crowbar, a hammer, and your piece of thin plates or laminate sample. Insert the thin board on the wall. This protects the wall from damage. Put the pry into theCrack on the head between the wall and the skirting. Use the hammer on the hook of a crowbar tap to get it between the wall and baseboard wedge. Use a stroke at the end of the bar pull the baseboard. Be careful, and you will not buy into new forms part, but only the reuse of the old one. If you have door jams in your kitchen, they have to be cut to a shorter from the bottom. You do not need to eat. Simply use a piece Backer board, and a piece of the plate on top of each other'sSearch for the height of the new soil. Mark this on your jam, so that only takes a little more set for the area of thin. Use up your jam saw the jam. It will now be ready to slip the backer board, and during the installation under tiles.
4. Now is the time to install the supporter card. Mix the thin set according to the instructions on the bag. For me it is better to smaller quantities at a time mix, I get interrupted, and because it is easier to handle. With a latex or rubberGlove on the hand, use your hands to mix. This method is good for lumps, broken must feel with your fingers. Another method is to use a drill attachment to the water and powder thin set mixed.
5. Spread the thin set with the notched trowel on the floor. Arrange sheets Backer board over the thin set. "Thin" distributed to each piece Backer board at a time to avoid stepped in it. Each piece has as with screws attached to the bottom. Use your drill to fasteninto the screw. Space they give to the marks, the placement on the backer board. When installing the screws, it is very important that they are flush or slightly below the surface. Though a little above the surface of the backer board can rotate the tiles and / or break after the job is done. Use a circular saw to the donors on board to have a razor and break or cut the board at the slot you cut. Let's make about a ¼ inch space against the walls and cabinets,Expansion. Use the seam mesh tape at the seams, and use a spatula and some thin set to mount it on the seams. Let dry.
6. With a tape measure, carpenter's square and chalk line to determine a center point of departure and be sure it is on the pitch. I like to use some painter's tape to the chalk line for the first tile brand. It is easier to see, set in the use of thin, and when you remove a straight line again. You only need these ingredients for the firstSome tiles. Then you are in line with your existing tiles and spacers.
7. Do not use the thin set. Instead, a dry layout of some of the tiles is to determine the size of the tiles on the edges. It is better to try to cut through the brick center of a small adjustment as to ¼-inch pieces on an edge. Now, mix down and applied in several thin sections and place the tiles on top. It is best to start in the middle of the floor and off.When placing the tile, be sure that you have a rotary motion and companies under pressure to ensure that use liability. Then watch the tiles if necessary with the help of spacers. If you have a tile before removing it set to have the crowbar really helps to lift it. The size of spacers is used according to personal preference and type of tile. Tiles have only full size, where they fit.
8. Are the next day, or by areas dry enough to walk carefully in order to start measuring and cutting tile. ToBrand, a tape measure and pencil can be used to obtain the size. But an easier method for most of the cuts is to insert a plate into the space that a reduction of tile needs. It is the first full overlapping tiles. Then line-up to cut another full tile on the edge of the tile, and full even with the tile. Allow for the distance, where the joints go, and draw a line with a pencil on the edge of the full tile. I prefer using a wet saw with a manual saw, unless all cuts are straight and the full lengththe tile. When using a wet saw, first carefully read and follow the instructions in the manual, and cut some practice pieces. It is not as intimidating as it seems. The saw blade can be traced in a sentence. Do not try to cut too fast. Slowly and steadily better, and broken tiles. Install avoid cut tiles in the same way as full tiles, and leave a little room on the walls and cabinets. It is now important to ensure that the soil dry undisturbed for 24 hours.
9. Clean Brick, with water and spray cleaner. The excess thin set is coming out with the use of a washing sponge. If you are a porous stone, brick, you need to seal before grouting. This is to prevent staining of the tile. Polished marble, granite, ceramic or porcelain, at this point need not be sealed. Mix grout according to package directions. Again, I want to be a rubber or latex gloves to mix used. Use the rubber grout float, held at an angle to spread the grout over the entire plate> Floor. Working in sections, and more Bricks from scratch, after a few minutes by the float upright in a corner. After a wait about 30 minutes, use a sponge and water to clean more of the mortar. Keep rinsing the sponge and pressed in your bucket. You can also change the water. You can repeat this procedure again. It is not clean on. Wait until the next day, and then repeat the process. Use this time to destroy the old terry cloth towel and buffAfter the sponge. When there are resistant sites, use a clean joints to remove haze.
10. Now the grout to cure for the next seven days. If the environment is dry because of heating, use a spray bottle with water and spray on the grout to cure it stronger. After the period, and the soil is completely dry, the grout can be sealed. Some tiles have also sealed. It can be done at the same time with the same product. You do not need a few layersdepending on the product instructions. Re install baseboard and shoe molding.
Here are a few precautions and helpful hints
--If your floor is very out of level you may want to veto tiling, and go with a floating type floor.
--Use thin set, never mastic for areas that will have water exposure. Mastic will melt away if a substantial amount of
water reaches it.
--If you are only tiling at your home, and not more often, rent a wet saw. Reserve it if can bring, but not home
Until you cut tile.
- If the grout using Painter's tape to protect surfaces as the base under the table.
- Mixing thin set mortar or cutting saw with a wet, do it outdoors, or in a garage, because the dust. Also wear
Safety goggles and dust mask.
- Be careful when cleaning of buckets or equipment, never pour it down the drain, even about washing hands, because it
clog the drain.
- Use siliconfor perimeter sealing edge instead of grout. Put the quarter to seal in the wet. Use quit nails
Easy to install safe. The thick will prevent water from coming under edges of the tile.
- For cleaning wipe, wet, or if the grout is dirty, use a small amount of bleach and water.
- Re-seal the grout once a year. Porous stone may need to be resealed every six months.
Enjoy the fruits of your labor! By doing it yourself, you have an enormous savings in labor costs and haveincreases the value of your home!
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