Prepare and Cut Tiles

quarter inch [Applause] this is the towel we went with so we ended up going with it's called arabescato gold matte porcelain um we got it at lowe's we ended up going with uh the matte look instead like the shiny because i didn't want it to look like a countertop i guess if that makes sense hey before we get started let's talk about supplies that we're using i got a three bucket system here one is to mix my thinset one is for clear water or just clear that's not a thing it's just clean water and then one for cleaning out the paddle of the mixer then we need a mixer paddle with a drill we'll use a quarter inch trowel the thinset mortar that we're using make sure it has the right application so this is going on cement board and we're using porcelain tile and we don't need any kind of activator because this already has it implanted inside we're gonna mix it up into like a sour cream mixing bring it up scrape it in and i'll show you how we go from there if you're going to have me cut the tile we should have got a lot more tile here's a blade make sure this is sitting against the table back keep your hand on here turn this on here and you got to go slow or also crack support it right here and in the back i cut my fingers off well we'll get implants or you can go install the tile and so if it comes up it's on you can we do all of it together so then you just line it up this has to go behind this fence [Applause] and remember you have to support it here because it's going to vibrate and then so pull it back don't let it touch the blade yet pull it you got to pull the lever so everything was great just make sure you keep your hands on this side because it's easy to get distracted especially when you're looking at me while cutting and this is how you get your hand in there [Music] what's the point of the water if you don't have water this is stone it becomes very a lot of dust will go up and because it's not flexible it will crack by having water there it creates a wet cut so it reduces the friction so friction makes it cracked if we didn't have it one lane tile you guys probably seen previous videos we're gonna use the quarter inch trowel side first then we're gonna back butter back butter and gets rid of any air bubbles and gives it a double-sided adhesion and then use little wedges to kind of prop it up i'll put a little tile piece there to make sure we're at level 1 and 30 seconds of an inch spacers and we'll start spreading it out