subject: Updating Your Kitchen - Back Splash [print this page] By Murray Anderson By Murray Anderson
Here's how you can do the installations yourself.
Install ceramic tile Home Back
* Start using a level to make sure the wall is level and plumb - fill any low spots with drywall compound floating on the surface, leave it to dry then sand smooth.
* Determine the space you need to cover and count the number of tiles you will need by measuring the length of your back initially, as well as high from the top to the bottom of the counter from the cabinet of your kitchen. Add extra10% to 15% of the tiles partial breakage and potential.
* Graph paper used to outline the range of starting back, including any specific patterns or highlights on the tiles you want to build.
* On the wall, and be a focal point visible from the pattern and then use your level to draw a horizontal line, vertical line through it. This will be the guide lines to help you and your tiles vertically and horizontally.
* Start in the center and start installing the bottom row of tiles through the deployment of mastic with a shovel grooved a small part of the wall. Now, place the edge of the tiles on the first vertical line and wriggled and press it in place. (Twisting ensure mastic covering the back of the tiles)
* Install 08/01 "interval (vertically easy to remove later) and then install the tile next to the first second using the same dodge and the movement of the press.
* Follow-up installation of tiles following the pattern of private and work away from the midfield, and put commas between each tile. In places where you need to cut or trim a tile (in the framework of the Council of Ministers, on the presence of the electrical outlet), tiles as part of the installation - do not leave a gap and plan to return at a later time.
Ceramic tiles
* Ceramic pieces are two-step process and requires a special ceramic tiles you can hire stores in the home.
* Measure and mark where I want to cut the tiles, and then cut and placed in the record on the surface of the glass along the mark. Record after it was brick, and press the significant reduction in the index will be conclusive tiles along the line and record.
* Alternatively, you can use the 'pincer tiles' to cut a small piece of tile.
Fillers and finishing
* After installing your tiles to allow the mastic to set at least overnight, then remove the commas. Now, using the plaster sandless (to prevent scratching the tiles) and rubber grout float of the press in the gaps between the tiles, and then float a 45-degree angle, scanning the excess plaster.
* Leave the plaster to set for about an hour and then use the reduced sponge in clean water and wipe the fog of plaster. The completion of the polishing surface of the tiles with a clean dry cloth.
