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Tile Installation (Floor and Walls)

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Smallest Basement Shower Remodel

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What happens here

Tile installation begins with the shower floor, using gray penny tiles. Thin-set mortar is spread evenly over the KERDI pan, and the penny tile sheets are pressed into place, adjusting as needed to ensure even spacing. Next, large format (12x24 inch) Metro Greige porcelain tiles are installed vertically on the shower walls. Thin-set mortar is back-buttered onto each tile, and also applied to the KERDI membrane on the wall. A tile leveling system is used, consisting of clips placed between tiles and wedges inserted into the clips with a specialized clamp, to ensure a perfectly flat and even surface. Tile cuts are made using both a manual tile cutter and a wet saw for precise, clean edges.

Goal: Penny tile is installed on the shower floor, followed by large format porcelain tile on the walls, using thin-set mortar and a leveling system.

Tools and materials

  • 1/4 inch Notched Trowel
  • Drill (for mixing thin-set)
  • Manual Tile Cutter
  • Oscillating Tool (e.g
  • Dremel MM45) Dremel
  • Pencil
  • Tape Measure
  • Tile Leveling System (Clips
  • Wedges
  • Clamp) Prolevel
  • Metro Greige Porcelain Tile (12x24 inch)
  • Penny Tile
  • Water

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installment [Music] now blood test all it is is you come in here you fill it up with water one or two inches as you can see i made a marking right there and you let it sit for 24 hours i did this last night or yesterday morning and i put a little stop valve in there close it all down away it goes [Music] uh this is big oh gosh what is this called it is called metro gris grease porcelain tile it's 12x24 i'm gonna make this vertical tile going up use the same thinset quarter inch trowel put it up and i'll show you the leveling system i'm using [Music] hands down the hardest tile job i've ever done this probably my third shower i've done these walls are crazy and they're all load-bearing so there's always there's like a little bow right here and a little bow here and so this is probably the the first two tiles i placed actually when i created a plan these are the lifters that i'm placing in they're just almost working as a spacer as well and then uh these are little wedges that go inside of it and then you have to use this little clamp to compress them together to the right notch size that way they're all leveled and nothing's higher than the other

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