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How To Lay Ceramic Or Porcelain Floor Tiles - Part 3
Even though all the planning and preparation has been finished, it is still not time to get to the nitty gritty of how to lay floor tile. The trick now is to repeat the following steps as many times as you need to get a feel for it. If you do not feel ready to continue then try again. First we have to set everything up...
First of all, find the center point. We can continue with the assumption that we are dealing with a 84 squared feet room to explain the process better. Finding the center point is the key to learning how to lay floor tile. The center point will show you where to lay your first tile and then where to lay the rest onto that very first one. Let us take one wall as being 12 feel and the other 7 feet. First measure the 12 foot wall, at 6 feet half the distance and use a pencil to make a marking. Do the same on on the opposite 12 foot wall and using your chalk line, anchor one end at the midpoint of one wall and the other on the mid point of the opposing wall. "Snap" the chalk by lifting it up a small amount and letting it hit the floor. This will leave you with a straight line for the 12 foot walls. Measure 3.5 feet on the 7 foot walls and repeat the above process. The point where the lines intersect should be your center point.
Now that you have found the center point it is time to rehearse laying out tiles. Due to the chalk lines, you not only have a center point, you have also divided your room into quadrants (four areas of equal size). Starting at the center, place your tiles in your preferred pattern on the floor without using any adhesive or glue. Work only on one quadrant at a time, placing the tiles in a straight line towards the wall of your choice, always remembering to leave a small space between each tile. Repeat for the other 3 quadrants and taking note of when you need to place irregular tiles (that you will need to predrill) in places where there is an obstruction such as a radiator or pillar. In case you do have a radiator it is best to drain it and remove it. Then when you have finished tiling, place the pipe in a predrilled hole. It takes a little extra effort, but comes out looking particularly good.
Once you have placed all the tiles, noted where to cut them, cut them and rehearsed it once again then we are ready to go to the next step, the nitty gritty, of how to lay floor tiles. Everything up until now has been relatively easy and nothing has been permanent, but from here on in caution and extreme carefulness must be followed. You wouldn't want all the hard work and effort you have already put in to come to a bad end.
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