Prepare and Lay Hexagon Floor Tiles

so today's tile everything starts with the type of towel you're using so you want to show the towel that we got yes we got this really pretty hexagon style and i think it's it's not ceramic it's porcelain the type of sense that you're going to use is going to depend on the type of tile and the subfloor that you're using so we got this this will also tell us the type of trowel we use we'll need a quarter inch notch trial so this has a quarter inch it makes a perfect notch when you set it it spreads it and has no air bubbles and good adhesion so these are spacers i like smaller spacers these are about an eighth of an inch thick the wider they are i think the uglier the ground gets the the yeah i think the wider is exactly your the grout gets dirtier yeah that's not pretty so we'll need one bucket with water with the mixing paddle on to clean it because it'll get gunked up all the time we'll need one bucket with water to constantly mix and another bucket where all the mixture will take place okay so for installing tile you drop some on the ground spread it out how thick does it need to be these quarter inch trowels is what creates a thickness you can't go any thicker than that as you can see then the back of the tile is very important you have to scorch it this is perfect just a thin amount give a nice light little wiggle don't press it too hard on every side there's going to be a piece of contact and just like that we're going to keep moving the only part we're going to be doing differently here right now is we're not going to be doing these cutting pieces reason why that's usually a tedious part i save it to the next day just to do it all at once are you using like a do you have like a design that you're following are you kind of just eyeballing well there's really only one design with a hexagon right it's either this way or that way or do you want to go the other way because the tile is going to be going that way maybe it'll be more uniform if we do so you're saying just turn turned yeah okay what do you think sure [Music] because the idea of setting tile is very easy everything else is just making sure it's leveled right pattern doesn't sway so if these are rectangular pieces it would be easy because i just follow a straight wall that's why i found out that when installing hexagon like that you almost have to do a clump at a time to make sure that this is linear and that's linear [Music] that's not mine we're gonna have to have like a safety violation…