Installing Large Tile On Wall
Check the laying substrate has no cracks it is homogeneous and mature totally clean and flat.
Installing large tile on wall. First apply the adhesive onto the back of the slab with a 3mm tile trowel. To install ceramic wall tile use a level and measuring tape to mark the tile locations on the wall with chalk. Large format tile must be installed on a level substrate. When installing large format tile there must be at least 90 mortar contact and a minimum grout joint of 3 16.
Tiles one two three and four. Large format tile installation requires particular attention to proper substrate preparation grout joint sizing trowel selection and mortar coverage. So if the tiles are 10 inches high the line should be 10 25 inches off the floor. Use long sweeping motions to apply mortar to the wall and start placing your tiles in the marked locations.
Mark a horizontal line along the bottom of the wall coming up from the floor by the height of your tile plus one quarter inch. Maximum deviation from flatness of 1mm per 2 meters length measured. The recommended adhesive is c2te s1 and it must be spread over in one direction only. Then every subsequent row is a process of draping over the pyramid back and forth so.
Level floors plumb walls. For proper installation floors and other horizontal surfaces need to be level and vertical. Installing large format tile large format tiles must be supported properly. Obviously large format tiles are heavier than smaller tiles.