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Install Porcelain Tile Flooring

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Wife Made Me RIP OUT a Jacuzzi for this Tub

What happens here

Tools and materials

  • Angle Grinder with Diamond Blade
  • Manual Tile Cutter
  • Mixer (Drill Attachment)
  • Notched Trowel (1/2 inch)
  • Rubber Gloves
  • Safety Glasses
  • Tile Leveling System (Clips and Caps)
  • Large Format Porcelain Tile
  • Thin-Set Mortar
  • Water Tap water

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do that tomorrow but today let's do tile i wish i only had to just tile where the tub was on that front part but in order to make it flow i have to go further back this is the what do they call a water closet the poop room uh i need to start from there so i'm gonna start laying down my tile and once i get to about here which makes sense to talk about the tub i'll start showing you exactly how i'm laying this at least explain it this is the large format tile uh and there's a little checklist of what it could actually go on top of so in our situation concrete we got a green light to go put some water in here mix it up to a consistency of like sour cream [Music] now make sure you rinse out your mixing paddle here because trust me nothing gums up real fast [Applause] [Music] let's talk about installing tile i've covered it a lot of times but i want to refresh everybody who's maybe new to the channel so um first things first we're using thinset there's certain things that are perfect for certain kind of material applications and certain tiles this is porcelain it's going on concrete floors this is the product that we're using we're gonna mix it up to about a sour cream base because this is a large format tile we're using half inch grates on this we're gonna apply it to our floor and then we're gonna get a nice flowing pattern beautiful then we're gonna take our tile and we're gonna back butter it this will keep it from falling out we're coming off scrape everything off now that it's there then we're gonna use our leveling system i bought this i believe it's called marsh town you install these lifters everywhere there's gonna be a joint so two here two there perfectly then we're gonna flip the sucker over carefully lay it down in place give it a nice little wiggle so all those little grates collapse then we're gonna take the caps and we're gonna just thread them on until two surfaces are completely flat and just like that we have properly installed a piece of tile that's leveled and we can continue with our pattern all right guys we're out here we're getting through it we're getting it done i'm cutting the tile using a diamond blade on my cordless uh rayobi angle grinder it's going real good getting tired speaking of which get it done new merch go check it out get yourself through all these projects the link will be in the description help support the channel folks i'm not gonna lie i'm exhausted i spent about seven hours tiling everything last night…

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