How-To-Tile Floors, Walls & Other Areas
The best installation tip that we can give you in learning how to tile is to learn tile layout. Tile layout helps to:
- Avoid permanent mistakes.
- Find the starting point.
- Center the tiles.
- Avoid small cuts.
- Work with patterns.
- Design the project.
Tile is a permanent surface that you will have to live with for many years. You will want to get it right the first time. Many problems arise simply from not knowing how to measure and lay out the area, and proper tile layout of the job is the single most important factor that separates an amateur from a professional.
From the journal
Tile Layout eBook — the four chapters
How-To-Tile Articles
What size tile should I use? What glaze? What color?
What's the difference?
How do I prepare my old floor for new tile?
How do I prevent the grout from crumbling or staining?
Learn the tricks.
How to transition your new tile to other surfaces.
Cutting Tools for Ceramic & Stone
Cutting tools are very specific for different tiles.
How to install granite tiles on a kitchen countertop.
Sealing granite, marble, travertine, limestone.
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Ordering information
The Tile Layout eBook is in electronic digital form only. There is no print version. The Patterns for Ceramic & Stone mini-guide was included with it.
| Title | Tile Layout |
|---|---|
| Chapters | Floor, Wall, Countertop, Fireplace |
| Included | Patterns for Ceramic & Stone |
| Format | Digital download |
| Listed at | $19.00 for both books |
Full details of what each chapter covers are on the Tile Layout eBook page and the ordering page.
About Tile And Stone Tips
Tile And Stone Tips was built by two people: Greg Feese, whose background came from laying out and setting numerous tile jobs, first as a journeyman for a commercial tile company on department stores, restaurants and fitness centres, and later through his own tile setting business renovating kitchens and bathrooms for residential customers in Denver, Colorado; and Dennis Miller, who owned and managed the web development firm that produced this site.
The longer biographies are on the About Us page, and the complete route index is on the site map.