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Bathroom Remodeling- Five Basic Steps to Tiling the Floor

Part of nearly every bathroom remodeling project is floor tiling. This is simply one of the easiest ways for you to dramatically change the look and feel of your bathroom. If you aren’t going into major remodeling that would involve moving pipes and walls, you may be able to tile your own bathroom floor. Here are five basic steps:

Step 1: Prepare the Floor Surface

First of all, make sure your wall tiles are already neatly in place. Proceed with removing the toilet. Common sense will tell you that you would have to turn off the toilet water valve and drain out all the water. Cover the gaping hole with cardboard or better yet, pack a few old rags tightly into the hole.

The next step is to remove the old tiles. You will notice after removing them that you will have a ragged floor surface. It is important to flatten this surface in preparation for your new tiles. You can manually chip off the ragged areas or you can apply a new, thin coat of cement.

Step 2: Use Four Sample Tiles

Bathroom floor tiling always begins at the center. You can locate this focal point by first finding the bottom center of your four walls and attaching one string to each of the facing walls. The point where the stings meet is the center. The four corners where the strings meet are where you should put your first four tiles. In some bathrooms, the center is also the location of the water drain. If this is so, you would have to cut the corners of the four actual tiles where they meet at the center to accommodate the drain.

Step 3: Put on the Mortar Mix

There are mortar mixes that come with easy to follow instructions. There are also a couple of special mixes made just for inexperienced handymen. They don’t dry up as fast as other mortar brands. You would need a trowel with a notched portion to put the mortar on the floor surface. The notch is what you use to put ridges on the mortar surface.

Step 4: Install the Tiles

Start by setting the first four tiles at the center. Work your way around these four tiles until you are left with the small spaces in between the installed floor tiles and the walls. Use a tile spacer when you set the tiles to make sure that your tiles have even spaces in between. You don’t need to cut the tiles to fit around the exact shape of your toilet hole. This is because your toilet base will simply go over the tiles so it will not matter if you have perfectly shaped tiles around the toilet hole.

The last tiles you would have to install are those on the four sides close to the walls. Most of the time, the tiles on these sides are smaller than the other tiles. To find the size of a last tile, put it over the last whole tile from the last row. Set the tile to be cut close to the wall with just enough space to accommodate a tile spacer. Cut the tile above with the edge of the bottom tile as the guide.

Step 5: Put Grout into the Spaces

Leave your tiles to dry and then put grout in between the tile spaces. Wipe out the excess grout as soon as possible.

This may seem hard for a first timer but bathroom remodeling and tiling can be done without hiring a contractor. Do consider getting one though if your remodeling project requires an extensive bathroom remake.

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