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How to tile a bathroom floor?

How to tile a bathroom floor?

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Ceramic tiles need mastic or thin-set mortar to adhere them to the floor. Make sure that your tiles are meant to be walked on. Get a tile cutter from your local hardware store or you can rent a wet saw for larger jobs.

First prep and clean the surface. Second , lay out your tiles to figure out how many you need and how they will fit (cut tiles to fit irregular areas). Next. Remove a section of the tiles to put down your thin-set with the appropriate notched trowel (usually square notched for floors and smaller grooves for smaller tiles). Lay the tiles into the mortar one at a time using appropriate sized tile spacers to keep the distance between them uniform.

Finally, after the mortar has dried use a grout float to push in sanded tile grout into the spaces where your tile spacers kept open. Run the float at a 45 degree angle to the tiles to assure the least amount of effort to be used. Let the grout dry to the recommendations on the packaging then use a grout haze clean-up to clean the tiles from the excess grout. Last, you need to seal the grout with an acrylic grout sealer.

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