Tile
Another busy weekend! My wife and I worked on some tile areas. The higher cost of tile as a flooring surface is due mostly to the labor involved in placing it.
Tile
Another busy weekend! My wife and I worked on some tile areas.
The higher cost of tile as a flooring surface is due mostly to the
labor involved in placing it.
A view of the tile detail at the hearth. The underlayment is in place.
Underlayment is required on wood subfloors to increase the stiffness.
The stiffer the floor the less chance that cracks will develop in the
grout or tile. Underlayment is not needed on concrete floors. The tiles are
arranged to best determine layout.
It is tricky to place and cut tiles around openings such as this duct. Between
the tiles are tile spacers which will be removed before the grout is placed.
The tiles are secured to the underlayment with thinset.
Typically it is best to avoid small tile sizes. This was inevitable
because of the more important tile orientation at the front door. It
also isn't a great concern because this sliver of tile is in the Entry closet.
The entry tile in place. Notice the tile layout at the Entry door.
This is what caused the sliver in the Entry closet mentioned above.
Tile and grout at the fireplace hearth.
A closeup of the tile. Extra grout was placed around the edges to keep
the tile from movement at the edge.
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