Introduce Leveling System and Tile Pattern

buy the tools all right i apologize but i'm gonna be doing a little bit of talking right now so we figured out our tile we figured out a mixture now our leveling system uh as well as the pattern the pattern usually from my understanding the way i was kind of taught is that you want it to go vertically as you walk in through the entrance whether it's the front door of your front house or the room they kind of go the lengthwise so it's our front door and they go long-wise this way number one number two the pattern is going to be staggered very simple 12 by 24 going this way and then we're gonna cut one in half and we're gonna stagger them this way basic the third thing we want to talk about is leveling now if it was us doing this 20 years ago we would put thinset on drop it down put our little spacers where there's an eighth of an inch whether it's a sixteenths or whatever and then we would try to shimmy it down and do our best and this is where the professional tile setters would really speak well is to level it in a way where one lays completely flat next to the other without any kind of lips or edges or anything like that the really big pros what do we do is they put a quarter and slide it and if it hits something then it's a bad tile job modernity technology they came up with these little leveling kits initially they can get a little pricey so i think this box here is like 30 bucks for that whole pack these are little wedges that go underneath then you get for another 10 bucks this little tool and these little wedges sorry these little shims which are spacers these are 16th inch they go underneath the two pieces of tile then in that slot we slide the wedge in that has little locking uh steps inside and then to really force it to level with the next uh tile that it's next to we'd use this tool to compress it together once it dries overnight the next day we just remove these shims and then just break off these little plastic pieces and everything's concealed this is my very first time using this kit i usually always kind of eyeball it and it's never always great but it worked pretty well today we're going to do the the really nice method so let's learn together it's always exciting to learn isn't it