Large format tile installation requires particular attention to proper substrate preparation grout joint sizing trowel selection and mortar coverage.
Installing large tile on wall.
Use long sweeping motions to apply mortar to the wall and start placing your tiles in the marked locations.
For proper installation floors and other horizontal surfaces need to be level and vertical.
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.
Obviously large format tiles are heavier than smaller tiles.
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.
Repeat your second drape in the opposite direction.
Be sure to put spacers between each tile as you go.
First apply the adhesive onto the back of the slab with a 3mm tile trowel.
Begin your first drape on either right or left side and walk it up over and down the other side.
Level floors plumb walls.
Check the laying substrate has no cracks it is homogeneous and mature totally clean and flat.
Tiles one two three and four.
To install ceramic wall tile use a level and measuring tape to mark the tile locations on the wall with chalk.
When installing large format tile there must be at least 90 mortar contact and a minimum grout joint of 3 16.
Installing large format tile large format tiles must be supported properly.