Tile Step 1
Where to start.... middle sounds good. Laser level... COOL!! We do the corner to corner thing, find the center of the room. Great. Now we have a dot. Hmm. We want to lay the tiles out in a diamond pattern. Let's mark the centers of the 4 walls and do 2 chalk lines. Wonderful. Gee, still need the diagonals. 45-45-90. Okay, that'll work. We finally have a starting line.
As we proceed to do a dry layout of the tiles, mixing boxes to mix the patterns around, I realize... some are 1/8" bigger than others. This is going to screw up the spacing. *sigh*. Nothing we can do about it. We only had one bag of spacers so we'll need more but so far it looks great. We got more the next day.
Chris' boss comes through with the tiling tools so we try it out. We had about 4 tiles whose corners got chipped off in the box so we use those as a test. Our trim will be straight down the middle but we don't have a straight edge so Chris uses a scrap piece of wood. Score... Snap... Cool... perfectly straight line down the middle. We don't need the $32 tool with the track or the wet saw. Next we try the diagonal. I suggest using the back of the hand saw as the straight edge and that works so much better. The first diagonal score, he slips so there's now 2 lines. He tries using the back of the scoring tool cuz it has the thing like a plier to snap it in half. But the depth of the tool is only a few inches. He puts the tile in the tool. POP! The corner breaks off at about an inch. One edge is along the score line and the other got nipped off by the tool. Maybe we should find another way. So we lay the tile on top of the wood we used as a straight edge. You stand on this half, I'll stand on that half. SNAP!! Right in half. Straight too. We definitely don't need to use the wet saw or the $32 tool.
All the diagonals are cut and we start gluing on the tiles from the middle. More tomorrow.
As we proceed to do a dry layout of the tiles, mixing boxes to mix the patterns around, I realize... some are 1/8" bigger than others. This is going to screw up the spacing. *sigh*. Nothing we can do about it. We only had one bag of spacers so we'll need more but so far it looks great. We got more the next day.
Chris' boss comes through with the tiling tools so we try it out. We had about 4 tiles whose corners got chipped off in the box so we use those as a test. Our trim will be straight down the middle but we don't have a straight edge so Chris uses a scrap piece of wood. Score... Snap... Cool... perfectly straight line down the middle. We don't need the $32 tool with the track or the wet saw. Next we try the diagonal. I suggest using the back of the hand saw as the straight edge and that works so much better. The first diagonal score, he slips so there's now 2 lines. He tries using the back of the scoring tool cuz it has the thing like a plier to snap it in half. But the depth of the tool is only a few inches. He puts the tile in the tool. POP! The corner breaks off at about an inch. One edge is along the score line and the other got nipped off by the tool. Maybe we should find another way. So we lay the tile on top of the wood we used as a straight edge. You stand on this half, I'll stand on that half. SNAP!! Right in half. Straight too. We definitely don't need to use the wet saw or the $32 tool.
All the diagonals are cut and we start gluing on the tiles from the middle. More tomorrow.
posted by Melissa & Chris at 10:15 PM
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