Tools for tiles

Fixing ceramic tiles, builders and a required for setting out plumb the truth verticals and horizontals; Part of a thin wooden battens are needed to support the lowest tile work progress; Notched spreader sticky tile, tile cutter, a pair of pincers is also needed. Gigue culting tile will cut straight lines; I saw a tile can cut curves. Use a sharp knife to cut Cork tiles; A pair of scissors and cuts for metallic tile; Cut glass for a brick bolster tiles, a hammer down a brick stone tiles, if necessary.

Finding the level

The next step is to establish a precise individual round the room. Never trust a skirting board more likely to be level with the skirting level mean that horizontal rows will not be really horizontal, and line up as complete retirement by back row of the starting point.

Mark left the wall round the room with the batten of overlapping and the spirit, with the bottom edge of the lowest row of tiles. Along this line thin pin battens to the wall with masonry nails; Move the nails home, since the battens will have to be prised off again. If cannot be driven nails into the wall (an old tile wall, say) to get the horizontal battens by placing them in the back stacks of cards. Next, using a plumb line or constructors, draw a vertical line is correct on the wall at the point where it is parsing the start-edge of a vertical row of stones complete (unbroken wall) or coinciding with the first line of whole stones next to the open window or door. Be nailed vertically along a vertical line and batten in this guide.

Repairing the tiles

Spread glue spreader with serrated wall tile, covering an area of one square metre each time. Draw the spreader over the tape by pressing it down so that the teeth touch surface plaster beneath; Then, the notches make glue spread in depth. Place the first tile in horizontal batten, align its end with a vertical alignment, and click it gently but firmly on the wall. Add the following to the first tile, with lugs, and the interval touch his face is one of the first tile level. If interval is not tiled, lugs use matchsticks or tile gaps between tiles. Continue along the line to the edge of the area is reached, and then add a second, third and fourth row, checking all the time that tiles accurately with each other. Spread glue along the area above the batten wall, continues to add to the whole area is covered with stones up to or until an obstacle such as a door or window sill is reached. Msid time, use the level in the mood to see tile they batten really horizontal.

Tile cutting

On the window sill, is to retire the u-m, Eden itself with a round-edged tiles or Glazed-tile edges overlap the edges of the wall. The following task so to mark and cut pieces of tile to go to the wall below the windowsill. Select the square with a felt pen or Chinagraph pencil and then score the surface Glazed tile with tile cutter. To attach the tile along the line, press down on the side scored cither straight line over the edge, or use a pair of sea bream with protruding tile angle. If the cut end is rough, use tile stone rubbing (a kind of coarse pumice stone-like rough) or wet with water of oilstone smooth edges tile. Cut L shape, making one cut with a saw and tile with tile cutter. Cut and fit the narrow pieces of tile that the window opening; Then adjust the tiles with rotation in exposure, butting the edge round neatly edges of pieces cut in front of the wall. Complete the entire tile or tiles reveals cut pieces as needed.

To the door and window openings

Support for fixing battens over the door and window openings to the first row of tiles that have been cut over the opening. These, and battens support the main near the skirting board level, remain in place until the glue was you time-for at least 12 hours, preferably for a 24-or tile will wrap under their own weight. When they were removed, lighting and border pieces needed to finish the tile adhesive buttering, to the back of each piece before pressing it into place. To cut the pieces start the square back to front, mark two points on both sides of the line indicates the position of the tiles and then became the tile, score it and break it.

Turning a corner

When you turn a corner, a vertical line of the first whole tile on the wall next before filling in the pieces cut in angle. With the stones and keep some semblance of a shadow continuity by cutting pieces and tile to fill the gaps on either side of the angle.

Changes in the level of

When a tile above the existing tiles to stop halfway up the wall, there is a change in the level of dealing with. If a relatively small step, the last row of stones with their integrity over the top, and fill in the gap behind the plaster, the disease before performing the repair all tiles above the stage. Steps deeper 12 mm not be disguised this way. With these tiles can stop at the top of the old tiles, end the top of the tile with tree wrap or tags of cutting a tile horizontally, or a Visual break in the narrow shelf or the tile was sold for the match in the quadrant between bathOn the wall. The alternative is to bring the top half of the wall up to the same level-with sheets of plasterboard or bit, for example.

Graoting

When you complete the following task is tiled to fill the gaps between tiles with grout. Apply it with a sponge or plastic apoxyomenos, forcing it well into the gaps between tiles. Remove excess grout and smooth glaze work progress through the grout lines with small rounded moistened or slick-stick used lollipop is ideal. Do not leave grout to set the glaze as difficult to get out. When grout has set up on the surface of the tile, Polish with clean, dry cloth to finish the job.