Installing Large Tile On Wall

Repeat your second drape in the opposite direction.

Installing large tile on wall.

Begin your first drape on either right or left side and walk it up over and down the other side. Tiles one two three and four. First apply the adhesive onto the back of the slab with a 3mm tile trowel. To install ceramic wall tile use a level and measuring tape to mark the tile locations on the wall with chalk.

Use long sweeping motions to apply mortar to the wall and start placing your tiles in the marked locations. Then every subsequent row is a process of draping over the pyramid back and forth so. When installing large format tile there must be at least 90 mortar contact and a minimum grout joint of 3 16. Check the laying substrate has no cracks it is homogeneous and mature totally clean and flat.

Maximum deviation from flatness of 1mm per 2 meters length measured. Obviously large format tiles are heavier than smaller tiles. The recommended adhesive is c2te s1 and it must be spread over in one direction only. Large format tile installation requires particular attention to proper substrate preparation grout joint sizing trowel selection and mortar coverage.

Installing large format tile large format tiles must be supported properly. Large format tile must be installed on a level substrate. So if the tiles are 10 inches high the line should be 10 25 inches off the floor. Level floors plumb walls.