Tiles for your kitchen floor with the stone in ceramic, porcelain or evokes a feeling of strength, value and durability. E 'aesthetically pleasing and more or less like a high quality vinyl to cover the costs if do it yourself. Other benefits are higher scores on an assessment of your property, buyers of the action (if you want to buy) and easy to care for the tiles. But all of these benefits may be zero, if you can not prepare, and then install the tiles correctly.
ToolsNecessary for the job:
Tiles
Backer board
Drill battery wired (or wireless, in addition, if wireless)
Hammer
Chisels
Small piece of thin wood or laminate sample
Eyewear
Dust mask
Saw
Shavers
Gloves (Work and rubber)
More clean bucket (Gal 5 families and small)
Jam so
Tape
Level
Chalk Line
Carpenter Square
PainterTie
Spatula ¼ inch from the channel and less for the curves
Thin September
Additive acrylic, or make some subtle had added
Jerseys Seam Tape
Spatula
Tile spacers
Pencil
Wet saw or manual tile cutter
Tile Pliers
Grout
Rubber grout float
Sponges, towels and water
Silicon Caulker
Tiles and strips of closure
Tile Cleaner
Steps to follow:
1. Determine the suitability of land for tiles.If you noticed that the ground is not level, use a leveling agent, which comes in powder form, in bags, in the same place where you buy your merchandise. This can be exploited for a plan of earnings otherwise solid. Sometimes you have to move a new subgroup for the strength you need. Most of the time, if a homeowner wants to install ceramic tiles, is on an existing vinyl floor. Never installed directly on the linoleum floor, like the pot will be disbanded poplater. Please use a tile Backer. There are several types to choose from. It has a network of type, with cement central resembled raw, crumbling. The other has a cover, even with a soft core. Both are available in both ¼ inch or ½-inch format. I personally prefer the kind-hearted because of the ease of use, and water resistance. Your choice of thickness will be determined by things like the level of the adjacent land, and the like as it applies to dishwashers.Remove all furniture and furnishings.
2. Select your card to suit your personal preferences. Sure to use a tile recommended for floors. Thinking about the surface of the tile, because it can not be a card that is extremely slippery for use in the kitchen. I discovered that one less just as long as the boxes more expensive, if it is installed correctly. Even for beginners, it is much easier to use a square with a square tile in the square model, then an interventioncomplicated pattern.
3. Determine, before shipment aboard Backer, if you want to remove the baseboard too. Your Baseboard will be shorter if you do not. Removing Baseboard and shoe molding (or fourth round), using a crowbar small and thin, a hammer, and the piece of sheet metal or sample of the laminate. Insert the thin sheet on the wall. This protects the wall from damage. Browse Insert into the hole at the top between the wall and baseboard. Use the hammer on the pressure hooka lever to wedge between the wall and baseboard. Use a blow to the end of the bar traction Baseboard. Be careful, and do not buy into new forms, but only recycle the old. If you have door jams in your kitchen, must be cut to a shorter-zero. You do not need to eat. Simply use a piece of Backer board and a piece of plate on top of each other to find the height of the new land. Mark this on your jam, so there is little morespace takes on the set fine. Use your jam, then jam. Now be ready to release the rear edge, and during the installation under tiles.
4. Now is the time to install paper supporter. Mix the thin, following the instructions on the packet. For me it is better to mix in a small amount of time, I stopped, and because it is easier to manage. With a latex or rubber glove on your hand, use your hands to mix. This method is good for fragmentsfingers. Another method is to use a drill related to water and mixed with fine dust.
5. Spreading the set with thin spatula on the ground floor. Arrange the sheets placed over the thin Backer Board. "Thin" is assigned to each piece of Backer board at a time to avoid increasing it. Each piece has as with screws attached to the bottom. Use the drill to tighten the screws. Give space to the characters, the position of the Board Backer. When you installViti is very important that they have the same level or slightly below the surface. Although slightly above the surface of the board Backer can rotate the tiles and / or break after the work was completed. Use a circular saw for donors on board to have a razor and break or cut the card into the slot you cut. Let a space of about ¼ inch from the walls and cabinets for enlargement. Use mesh tape stitching at the seams, and use a spatula and used some thin that they involveSeams. Allow to dry.
6. With a tape measure, carpenter's square and chalk line to determine a central point of departure and be sure it is in the field. I want to use some painter's tape to the chalk line to mark the first tile. It is easier to see who is the use of thin, and when you remove a straight line again. You only need these ingredients for the first tile. So they are in line with your existing tiles and slabsSpacers.
7. Do not use the set fine. Instead, a dry installation of some of the boxes is to determine the size of the boxes on the edges. It 'better to try to cut the brick core of a small adjustment to ¼-inch pieces on a board. Now, mix down and applied in several thin sections and put tile on top. It is best to start in the middle of the floor and out. When you insert the card, make sure you have a rotary motion and pressure on companies to ensure applicationResponsibility. Then see the tiles, if necessary, with the help of spacers. If you have a card before you remove the set to have a lever that really help to raise. The dimensions of the spacers used in accordance with personal preference and the type of tile. Tiles are only in its size, how they fit.
8. The day after, or in arid enough to go gently to start measuring and cutting tiles. Selecting a tape measure and pencil can be used to get the size. But an easier method for most of the cuts is thatlay a stone in the room that requires a tile cutting. It 'the first full tiles that overlap. So line-up to cut another full tile on the edge of the tile, and even with full tiles. Opportunities for distance in which the joints are, and draw a line with a pencil on the edge of a tile full. I prefer to use a wet saw with a saw by hand, unless all the cuts are straight and the entire length of the tile. When you use a wet saw, first read carefully and follow the instructions in the manual and cutsome pieces of land. It's not as scary as it sounds. The blade can be traced in a sentence. Try not to cut too quickly. Slowly and steadily improved, and broken tiles. Install avoid cutting tiles in the same way as the tiles are fully and leave a bit 'on the walls and cabinets. Now it is important to ensure that the soil is dry undisturbed for 24 hours.
9. Tiles with water and spray cleaner. Excess thin out with the use of a sponge to wash. If youSelect a porous stone, brick, you first need to seal the grouting. This is to prevent staining of tile. Polished marble, granite, ceramics and porcelain at this point does not need to be sealed. Mix the grout according to package directions. Again, I want to be a rubber or latex gloves mix used. Use rubber grout float, held in a corner of the mortar between tile floor spreading. Work in sections, and more bricks from scratch, after a few minutes of swimming in a morevertical angle. After waiting about 30 minutes, use a sponge and water to clean most of Malta. Keep rinsing the sponge and pressed into your bucket. You can also change the water. You can repeat this procedure again. Not perfect al. Wait until the next day, and then repeat the process. This time, using old towels to dry and buff with a sponge. When there are resistant sites, you must use a straight joints to remove the haze.
10. Now we wantGrout care for the next seven days. If the environment is dry because of the heat, use a spray bottle with water and spray on Malta to heal faster. After this period, and the soil is completely dry, the grout sealed. Some boxes are closed. Can be done simultaneously with the same product. You may need to make some changes, according to product instructions. Re-install Baseboard and shoe molding.
Here are some precautions and are usefulNotes
– If the ground is very level, it is recommended to veto tile, and go with a floating floor type.
– Use thin putty ever areas of exposure to water. Mastic melt, where a substantial part of
Enough water.
– If you have only seen tile home, and no more, take a bath. In reserve, if possible, bring, but not at home
Until you cut the tiles.
– If the mortar with Painter's tape to protect surfaces as a basisunder the counter.
– Mixing thin set mortar or cutting with a saw wet, it's outside or in a garage, as the dust. Even wear
Goggles and dust mask.
– Be careful when cleaning bins or equipment, never pour down the sewer, but wash your hands, because
clog the drain.
– Do not use silicone Caulker instead of perimeter edges Malta. Insert quarter to seal the wet. Stop using the nail
Easy to install secure. Cementto prevent the water from the lower edge of the tile.
– For dry cleaning, wet, or if the mortar is dirty, use a small amount of bleach and water.
– Re-seal the grout once a year. Porous stone, you may need to be resealed every six months.
Enjoy the fruits of your work! By doing it yourself an enormous savings in labor costs and the value of your house is risen!
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