How To Space Wall Tiles

You have a choice among common sizes which will depend on what size grout line you envision.

How to space wall tiles.

Tile spacers make beautiful results easy when used properly. Grout lines for wall tiles. Small tiles such as the 4 inch by 4 inch style commonly used on bathroom and kitchen walls often are self spacing. They have small protrusions called lugs that fit against adjoining tiles and create an automatic space for grout normally 1 32 to 1 16 inch wide.

Installing ceramic tile is an economical way to update the look of floors and walls during a renovation. Measure and re measure the length or height and width of your space carefully. Two and four inch tiles two inch tiles are factory spaced and sheet mounted. Record your measurement in millimetres this is how we measure tiles.

Avoid the mistake of placing them in the corner where four tiles meet. How to space between ceramic tiles. Once the adhesive has been applied you can start to place your tiles on the wall. There is less irregularity with rectified tiles so less spacing is needed between each piece.

To ensure that you create even joints between the tiles you ll need to use tile spacers. Use the same technique of placing and twisting the tiles described in the basic tiling techniques section. Four inch tiles called 4 and a quarter in. A tight 1 8 grout space will allow the pattern to flow nicely from one tile to the next.

A rectified edge allows for smaller grout lines because the tile has been more precisely cut unlike our other handmade tiles. Gloss tiles reflect light and are great if you are designing a small bathroom as they make the space feel bigger and brighter. Ceramic tiles are available in a variety of sizes. On the downside though smears will show up on the shiny surface.

Multiply the number you got in step 3 by the number you got in step 4. Start applying the adhesive in a bottom corner about 1 tile length away from the bottom and side of the wall leaving space for the edge tiles. Scoop out a golf ball sized amount of adhesive onto a notched trowel and spread enough adhesive in a thin layer over the wall to hang 2 3 tiles at a time. Divide the width of your space by the width of your tiles.

Insert them vertically in floor tile and horizontally in wall tile one pair per each edge of the tile. Therefore the spacing is predetermined and usually averages 3 16 to 1 4 inch. Leave an adequate amount of space between the tiles for grout. For more uniformly cut tiles such as granite smaller grout spacing can result in less visibility of grout lines between each tile.

In some cases such as with roofing tile or the wood siding of a wall rather than having a gap between them tiles overlap to prevent leakage.