When cutting casings around doors with the oscillating tool, add a layer of cardboard or something to the stack of cement board and tile. This accounts for the thickness of the thinset under and on top of the cement board.
Good tip. I bend my blade slightly up or angle my saw down so it adds and 1/8 or so. Just make sure the piece you use as a guide is small so your back of tool rests on floor
It would be hilarious if in an episode one of the guys went out and said, "I can do all of this, but it will involve X, Y, and Z. It will be a big job. You sure?" And the homeowner replies, "Yeah, you're right. Forget it, I'll just leave it be." And that's the episode.
Several good tips here: 1) The split "dutchman" plywood patch around the toilet drain, 2) Sliding the cement board under the flange, 3) Using the small "broken" piece of cement board behind the flange so it was a straight line for the next sheet.
That's the truth! I did my bath floor and there were 3 vinyl remodels underneath. The sub-floor was damp and made of woven ply-board, too. The sub-floor came off like pulled pork in wood splinters.
Your videos are so informative for my renos.. I will definitely reference this one when I will be redoing my bathroom floor from vinyl to tile.. a BIG thanks for sharing your knowledge and working experience Tom!!
not for nothing, i love this channel and learn a lot from it but -_- that bathroom looks like it was built yesterday. that was the freshest nice looking plywood i have ever seen hahaha
Love this video. what kind/type of thin set did you use between the plywood and cement board? what kind/type of grout should i use to grout my ceramic tile?
That makes a huge difference. I have the same floor but in mosaic. It didn't seem necessary to cut and fit the small pieces along the edge because the trim should cover it...at least, that is what I did.
harry homeowner left to grout the tile . How about the plumbing fixtures where the drains don't line back up and repairs to the wall or where they were short on tile in the closet and didn't do a row?
@Von Musklaus I bet you they did this in a couple of days. This is not your hobby. This is not a regular contract job this is a Video shoot. 30 Minutes take days to shoot.
Mike Holmes would have replaced the subfloor, and the walls, and ceiling, and joists... because it's the right thing to do! Minor bathroom renos shouldnt cost a penny under $85k.
@@jmbootz Yeah, they don't really make that apparent for the show. I always figured that a large portion of the cost of those "done right by Holmes" projects was being offset by the television show. It's why I always laugh at the show when it's trying to make the previous contractors or homeowners look like they were cheapskates on purpose. The reality is that when a know-nothing homeowner is looking to get a project done and they have quotes ranging from 15k to 45k... it's no wonder they end up with the 15k one. And then get all the headaches that comes with cheap. If you know anything about construction, you'd know to stay the hell away from the lowest and even midtier bids.
Depends on your subfloor and structure underneath. Theres nothing wrong with using a cement board. Everything is case specific. The ease of install, and uncoupling properties of Ditra are the main benefits, and if you are planning to do a heated floor, Ditra Heat eliminates an entire step you used to have to do.
You dont need to purchase an entire roll of ditra, just buy the amount you need, such a small area the cost will be low. I always use ditra when laying tile floors.
50% of contractors would have tiled right over the plywood. 25% of contractors that actually used the cement board would not have applied thinset below it or taped joints.
I prefer mixing up my own grout from dry. Then you can customize the viscosity. So you can float in all those gaps with ease. Pre mix grout is too thick and dry for my liking.
Hahaha came here to say the same thing. He'll finally get around to putting grout down once they decide to sell the house. Every half done project finally gets completed when you're about to list the house.
Tommy, awesome as always. For weekend DIY'ers like me, may want to add to the description/ video that cement board, Thinset and screws is old school underlayment. Not a structure where uncouple membrane is the better way to go.
I was fine with his technique until the very end, when he mentioned using "pre-mixed grout" for the next step. I had a customer once who purchased an acrylic pre-mixed grout thinking it would be a time and labor-saving strategy. Trouble was that unlike the grout you mix with water, which can be wiped off readily as it sets up, this pre-mixed version left a thin layer on the surface like smeared acrylic caulk. It was very hard to sponge it off before it dried to the point it needed to be scraped off. There may be other types of pre-mixed grout --this was my only experience with it--but be forewarned, it's harder to work with in the end even though you're saving the time and effort of mixing batches of grout (which I never found that burdensome to begin with).
How do you make sure you don't screw the cement board into the screws you put into the subfloor? Just practice or Memory? Is there a pattern we should follow?
1. Most screws are along the edge of the subfloor piece, or the cementboard piece. You shouldn't ever have joints of the cementboard layer lining up with joints of the subfloor layer below. You offset (stagger) the joints so that you aren't creating a "joint" that runs from toplayer right down to the bottomlayer. 2. If by some chance you DO hit a screw in the subfloor where you wanted to screw through the cementboard, you'll know. Hitting metal feels different than wood. So you just move the screw location an inch to the left or right. It's really not a problem that happens all that much if you are doing number 1 above.
Great job , I tilling man for 20 years I am do exact like video now on days used ditra. Xl ,,,, last time used hardie backer and wood sheet 1/4 inch 4x8 ,
Looks good! I always thought that you had to have a minimum of 1 1/4” of floor (3/4” plywood and 1/2” Duroc or the like) before you add tile. In this video, I saw 3/4” floor and you added 1/4” of cement board. Would this give you problems down the road? Thanks.....Jim
1/2” cement board is for walls because you need more structure and rigidity between the studs. 1/4” cement board is for floors since you already have subfloor providing structure across the joists
Would this technique work in a mobile home bathroom? Putting down multiple layers like this would look like it would. Just trying to get rid of the flex that's inherent in trailer floors is hard.
👍Hope Tommy had crew help with that job. Gettin old sucks! (Back, knees, etc) When home owner said he’d like a new tile floor I would’ve said, how about NO! Let’s pull existing tile & apply vinyl😂😂 Good job as always
This is almost the exact same product I'm trying to tackle now. What if you don't want to raise your flooring that much? I have thin linoleum there now. Can you use a thinner membrane product? What would that be? I'm worried about creating too much space between my new toilet...the flange...and the flooring.
When undercutting the door jamb put a piece of cardboard from the tile box between tile & backboard to account for you mud if you tile is an average thickness floor tile. The tile on sheets are thinner.
Wounder full wrong advise but it is right because it is from This Old House . He must never heard from New Building Materials. Alone the Cement Board is complete wrong. Cement Board or Hardybacker takes on up to 20% Moisture if you don't Seal it? Waterproof it. Welcome Mold . But that's how it is, No good Craftsmans ship only Quick Patches Ditra , Blanke or any other Product is better then those Cement Boards. You can install whole runn's and have no Patches. Tile work with real unmodified Cement Mortar for a Wet room does not dry/ cure in a day. But But you need it done fast Chris
Sorry that I reply sooooo late but I am not on the internet every day. I build only Walk In Showers where the person can walk in without jumping over those unnessesary curbs or what ever. To 90 % I use also Wall hung Toilets Gerberit or Toto to get rid of all those stupid holes in the floor. with those wall-hung Toilets you winn about 10 to 12" on room. The Tank is in the wall. The Wall units where the toilet is installed is availavle for 4" or 6 " walls. Check Gerberit Wall-hung toilets. You Tube What else. Take your Age now and then ask yourself if you want to redo everything in about 15 years. Floor repairs in older homes are to 90% a complete redo. If not, you mostly do only a patch over a patch that cost you only later. Double. If you lay Schluter or Blanke, check on the web/You tube it is 100% Waterproof. A big miss conception is that concrete boards are Waterproof, they are not, they can take on up to 20 % of Water, but its on page 3 of technical Info and who reads to Page 3? , what is a big problem with Moisture build up and double or triple layer floors, especially in the south, where the humidity is always high so the stuff then never dries out. On all the repairs we find lots of problems with double layers. I don't know your specific problem but if it is not to late you can use my E -Mail msch6791@verizon.net, for free advise. You have then to find an Installer in your aerea or do it also yourself It is not rocket science to do. Chris
That made the floor considerably higher…right? How did the bathroom door still clear all that? This was done in my house and our bathroom door has to be shoved to open all the way.
What is the advantage of tiling the shower floor vs a pre-fab standing shower tub beside the look? Would it be a chore to clean the grout on the shower floor?
Recently went the opposite route and went from tile to vinyl tile. We set cement board and then tile which wasnt my idea because i didnt think the tile would stick but i got a roll on sealer to fill the porus cement board and it came out ok. The bitch of doing tile and laying a subfloor for me were all the odd off cuts. I hate laying flooring with a passion both vinyl and i did tile my living room. I dont envy floor installers and/or tile setters. Hard work.
Tile is not easy work. I'm a guy and I've done two bathrooms and I hate it so much I'll hire someone if I have to do any more. I'll do anything else in the house.
Did they need to cut the tile that'll be under the baseboard that has to be installed? It seems so, but if it's under the new baseboard, then does it matter? Is there a "finished room" video/photo?
I have the small doweler system by Festool and though it cost $800 for the full tool and dowels vs $249 for it’s most expensive competitor i absolutely LOVE IT!!! That said I’m looking to retool many systems in my cabinet making shop. Do you recommend the Festool line of tools at the higher cost base or are the usual pro line tools ‘good enough; (i hate those words!)?
This is a great video and the man doing the work is a craftsman which is hard to find but the big misconception in this video is the project up to this point can not be done in one day with one craftsman and a novice
Is this commonly allowed in America, or just in some states? Where I live this isn't even remotely close to being up to code, since there's absolutely no real water barrier.
So why did Tom say they had to replace the subfloor? What would have been wrong with the one the vinyl was on? Did they put new subflooring on top of the existing floor, or replace it? If the former, I guess I can understand - you'd want the additional rigidity. If the latter, it makes no sense to me at all.
Tommy is like every good mechanically inclined father wrapped up in one. But a lot more patient.
Love Tommy
When cutting casings around doors with the oscillating tool, add a layer of cardboard or something to the stack of cement board and tile. This accounts for the thickness of the thinset under and on top of the cement board.
Good tip. I bend my blade slightly up or angle my saw down so it adds and 1/8 or so. Just make sure the piece you use as a guide is small so your back of tool rests on floor
Yeah I noticed he probably had to recut
Was think the same thing, what about the thinset. Cardboard is a great idea I'll use that next time.
I was wondering about this. "What about the thickness of both layers of thinset?" Glad to see I'm not crazy.
Since he laid the tool cutting blade on top of the other materials as he cut, he added the thickness of the blade in the overall height of the cut.
I wish that all contractors were this knowledgeable, thorough and patient. This show is a wellspring of knowledge. Thank you This Old House.
Tom is one of the absolute best all around carpenters i've ever seen. His work is always so precise and well done it's amazing
Hmm... not as precise as you say. Maybe you didn't see 3:30 where he cut out the old subfloor way too big...
When Tommy cut the first layer of plywood under the toilet flange, I think the circular saw cut tio deep - it cut into plywood above the joists.
"Next time on ask this old house: Tommy repairs some damaged joist"
Looks like that cameraman is spending the night in the tub!
Ha ha! Now that you say it.....
It is propably the next day filming this :p
Damnit, I was a year late for the same comment
CDeanhartman I need a camera man I’m going to start a Chanel like this
Lol!!!
It would be hilarious if in an episode one of the guys went out and said, "I can do all of this, but it will involve X, Y, and Z. It will be a big job. You sure?"
And the homeowner replies, "Yeah, you're right. Forget it, I'll just leave it be."
And that's the episode.
Roll credits. LMAO.
And they all drink beeeaaazzs out in the yaaaaard.
And then the ending music plays 😂😂😂
This gentleman makes my day, how he does address everything on his way! He resolves on his knowledge. Good job mister!
Dopiest comment get a like from TOH. I also noticed TOH likes to give likes to people with foreign names more so than american sounding names.
I would love to volunteer just to learn under his guidance. I've been watching this show since I was a kid. Love it even more as an adult
Several good tips here: 1) The split "dutchman" plywood patch around the toilet drain, 2) Sliding the cement board under the flange, 3) Using the small "broken" piece of cement board behind the flange so it was a straight line for the next sheet.
I'm not a fan of 2 layers of subfloor- whenever there's a water leak/loss, any wet subfloor (first layer) has to get cut out.
At 8:30 I would love to see a guitarist in the tub doing that solo jam while they work.
You would be so lucky if vinyl came up like that!! Whenever I see it, its 3 layers of the shit
Yeah i agree .i hate that stuff
and it's attached with the strongest glue known to man.
That's the truth!
I did my bath floor and there were 3 vinyl remodels underneath. The sub-floor was damp and made of woven ply-board, too. The sub-floor came off like pulled pork in wood splinters.
Use a heat gun.
Lucky B c
Your videos are so informative for my renos.. I will definitely reference this one when I will be redoing my bathroom floor from vinyl to tile.. a BIG thanks for sharing your knowledge and working experience Tom!!
Sment and sawer are two of my favorite Tom Silva words.
I like the way ,Tom Silva work, and explain how to do it 👏👏👍👍
Amazing skill to not only know what to do, but also to be able to do it.
Tommy always make look so easy.
That’s why he’s Tommy.
Charles Damery yeah Tommy look easy always
I know, eh?
More like the camera, and the editing.
Charles Damer
Tommy is wicked good with a sawr!!!
"Wow, perfect fit." It's amazing what you can accomplish if you know what you're doing...
Nice job. Step by step. Easy to follow, THANK YOU !
2:30 "This will sit flush" FLUSH
A really nice job, made to look easy, but well done
1:41 gave me splinter nightmares
not for nothing, i love this channel and learn a lot from it but -_- that bathroom looks like it was built yesterday. that was the freshest nice looking plywood i have ever seen hahaha
Love this video. what kind/type of thin set did you use between the plywood and cement board? what kind/type of grout should i use to grout my ceramic tile?
That guy made an amazing tile choice. It looks great!
lol
It was his husband.
I hope this is sarcasm. The color makes me nauseous.
@@chibearsfan313 Black and white makes you nauseous?
@@plumbingstuffinoregon2471 Yes, this is awful.
That makes a huge difference. I have the same floor but in mosaic. It didn't seem necessary to cut and fit the small pieces along the edge because the trim should cover it...at least, that is what I did.
bg147 aka cheat a little :)
Great work. Thank you for sharing.
harry homeowner left to grout the tile . How about the plumbing fixtures where the drains don't line back up and repairs to the wall or where they were short on tile in the closet and didn't do a row?
they must be starting this conversation at 3am if they got that all done in one day
I chuckled
Exactly!
This could have easily been done in a day???
They usually shoot things like this in a few days. But you are not supposed to know that.
@Von Musklaus I bet you they did this in a couple of days. This is not your hobby. This is not a regular contract job this is a Video shoot. 30 Minutes take days to shoot.
Mike Holmes would have replaced the subfloor, and the walls, and ceiling, and joists... because it's the right thing to do! Minor bathroom renos shouldnt cost a penny under $85k.
Apparently the network covered labor for the Holmes shows. That would help a bit...
Lol
@@jmbootz Yeah, they don't really make that apparent for the show.
I always figured that a large portion of the cost of those "done right by Holmes" projects was being offset by the television show.
It's why I always laugh at the show when it's trying to make the previous contractors or homeowners look like they were cheapskates on purpose. The reality is that when a know-nothing homeowner is looking to get a project done and they have quotes ranging from 15k to 45k... it's no wonder they end up with the 15k one. And then get all the headaches that comes with cheap.
If you know anything about construction, you'd know to stay the hell away from the lowest and even midtier bids.
I would of used Ditra these days personally if the tiles were larger. Always a pleasure to see Tommy work! Great video.
Restore&Explore what’s your opinion of ditra vs wonder board
I used ditra in two of my bathrooms. I am very happy with it.
Depends on your subfloor and structure underneath. Theres nothing wrong with using a cement board. Everything is case specific. The ease of install, and uncoupling properties of Ditra are the main benefits, and if you are planning to do a heated floor, Ditra Heat eliminates an entire step you used to have to do.
Why? it may be easier to carry and faster but for a small bathroom you would end up buying a large role and spending a lot more money.
You dont need to purchase an entire roll of ditra, just buy the amount you need, such a small area the cost will be low. I always use ditra when laying tile floors.
50% of contractors would have tiled right over the plywood.
25% of contractors that actually used the cement board would not have applied thinset below it or taped joints.
A lot of people live by the old adage: If a man on a galloping horse can't see it--it's OK.
Them roto zip saws are the best thing that ever came out for cutting under door jambs and what not.
how are you getting a rotozip under the casings?
My old best friend invented that tool, and the drywall bits that it was originally intended for. Then came other bits for other uses.
It wasn't a Roto-zip, it was a Fein Multi-Master
I love that multitool, makes life a lot easier
Amazing job! Tom made it look so easy.
Sment lol. Take a drink every time Tom says sment
🤣🤣
Boozers are losers
I prefer mixing up my own grout from dry.
Then you can customize the viscosity.
So you can float in all those gaps with ease.
Pre mix grout is too thick and dry for my liking.
Could a person add a little water to premix, to thin it to taste?
This was always the favorite show of mine when I was 13
DJ.Spikes Hostage how old is this show then? The camera quality is really good
Brad Howard it doesn't matter !!! PEOPLE DO UP GRADE THERE VIDEO EQUIPMENT.
I am 13. My favorite show too.
Shooooot it was mine when I was ten years old I'm 21 now
Me too.
Taking bets on whether or not it's been grouted yet.
I'll take the over.
Hahaha came here to say the same thing. He'll finally get around to putting grout down once they decide to sell the house. Every half done project finally gets completed when you're about to list the house.
1 year later and he still hasn't done it. just went over there
Update: still no grout. His wife is not impressed.
When Tom removes the toliet: "from the flange, looks like you guys had burritos last night".
Tommy, awesome as always. For weekend DIY'ers like me, may want to add to the description/ video that cement board, Thinset and screws is old school underlayment. Not a structure where uncouple membrane is the better way to go.
It works though.
Cheap and easy though. Membranes can be very expensive.
@@GeeTheBuilder
"The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten".
Enjoy your cracked floors...
8:45 -cut to Tommy also playing the guitar solo
what about the transition between the bath and hallway floors? it looks like there is a height difference!
The whole reason I watched was to see what they did with the threshold.
Gotta cut the door too.
Are the cement boards absolutely necessary? Can you not just cement the ceramic to wood?
Really appreciate This Old House!
I love this show!!! 😁💯
Tom with the old school Porter Cable circ saw. I still have one myself, but Tommy's is a bit older than mine.
I was fine with his technique until the very end, when he mentioned using "pre-mixed grout" for the next step. I had a customer once who purchased an acrylic pre-mixed grout thinking it would be a time and labor-saving strategy. Trouble was that unlike the grout you mix with water, which can be wiped off readily as it sets up, this pre-mixed version left a thin layer on the surface like smeared acrylic caulk. It was very hard to sponge it off before it dried to the point it needed to be scraped off. There may be other types of pre-mixed grout --this was my only experience with it--but be forewarned, it's harder to work with in the end even though you're saving the time and effort of mixing batches of grout (which I never found that burdensome to begin with).
And get the grout with the sealer already in it.
Oh how I'm not looking forward to doing this tomorrow.
How do you make sure you don't screw the cement board into the screws you put into the subfloor? Just practice or Memory? Is there a pattern we should follow?
1. Most screws are along the edge of the subfloor piece, or the cementboard piece. You shouldn't ever have joints of the cementboard layer lining up with joints of the subfloor layer below. You offset (stagger) the joints so that you aren't creating a "joint" that runs from toplayer right down to the bottomlayer.
2. If by some chance you DO hit a screw in the subfloor where you wanted to screw through the cementboard, you'll know. Hitting metal feels different than wood. So you just move the screw location an inch to the left or right. It's really not a problem that happens all that much if you are doing number 1 above.
Tom is one of the best.
Tommy always has the best tools. With me, I would've used a chisel/hammer to cut that tile.
They finished in a day with $9000 worth of tools to help.
Anon Emous you can do that job with $200 of tools easy. Or barrow some friends tools.
Favorite line from Tommy , Well let's see if this piece fits ? lol of course it will fit perfect when your the best craftsman on the planet!!
Tommy has saved me thousands and thousands
Tommy u freaking genius
I love your videos tom you make it look real easy 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼
Living legend - as always great work I mean artistry.
Great job , I tilling man for 20 years I am do exact like video now on days used ditra. Xl ,,,, last time used hardie backer and wood sheet 1/4 inch 4x8 ,
Wow , look at that , perfect fit ! Yeah it's Tom Silva working on the project not Joe Blow .
Looks good! I always thought that you had to have a minimum of 1 1/4” of floor (3/4” plywood and 1/2” Duroc or the like) before you add tile. In this video, I saw 3/4” floor and you added 1/4” of cement board. Would this give you problems down the road? Thanks.....Jim
1/2” cement board is for walls because you need more structure and rigidity between the studs. 1/4” cement board is for floors since you already have subfloor providing structure across the joists
Would this technique work in a mobile home bathroom? Putting down multiple layers like this would look like it would. Just trying to get rid of the flex that's inherent in trailer floors is hard.
Such a nice floor.
Always good work but you should have chose a different tile that looks old
👍Hope Tommy had crew help with that job. Gettin old sucks! (Back, knees, etc) When home owner said he’d like a new tile floor I would’ve said, how about NO! Let’s pull existing tile & apply vinyl😂😂
Good job as always
Nice going Tommy. Time to get yourself some worthy and appreciative apprentice to get on their hands and knees and do that for you.
4:02 ssssssssssment board. Now I think he’s just messing with us.
what is smet board ?
Tommy is a national treasure.
Used cement board screws for the sub floor
This is almost the exact same product I'm trying to tackle now. What if you don't want to raise your flooring that much? I have thin linoleum there now. Can you use a thinner membrane product? What would that be? I'm worried about creating too much space between my new toilet...the flange...and the flooring.
When undercutting the door jamb put a piece of cardboard from the tile box between tile & backboard to account for you mud if you tile is an average thickness floor tile. The tile on sheets are thinner.
1:27 “Came up easy”
Aren’t you glad your contractor used cheap Home Depot glue now??
seededsoul no because those were stick on tiles. That is why the adhesive failed. Mastic would have glued them down regardless of the brand.
@@Dixler683 that's why they're happy. because it failed
seededsoul I think it was from HB
Tom, use the Schluter Ditra membrane, its only 1/8" thick and much nicer to work with.
Wounder full wrong advise but it is right because it is from This Old House .
He must never heard from New Building Materials. Alone the Cement Board is complete wrong.
Cement Board or Hardybacker takes on up to 20% Moisture if you don't Seal it? Waterproof it.
Welcome Mold .
But that's how it is, No good Craftsmans ship only Quick Patches
Ditra , Blanke or any other Product is better then those Cement Boards. You can install whole runn's and have no Patches.
Tile work with real unmodified Cement Mortar for a Wet room does not dry/ cure in a day.
But But you need it done fast
Chris
Chris Pausenwein please point me to a few videos. Would love to learn more about these improved methods.
Sorry that I reply sooooo late but I am not on the internet every day. I build only Walk In Showers where the person can walk in without jumping over those unnessesary curbs or what ever.
To 90 % I use also Wall hung Toilets Gerberit or Toto to get rid of all those stupid holes in the floor.
with those wall-hung Toilets you winn about 10 to 12" on room. The Tank is in the wall.
The Wall units where the toilet is installed is availavle for 4" or 6 " walls.
Check Gerberit Wall-hung toilets. You Tube What else.
Take your Age now and then ask yourself if you want to redo everything in about 15 years.
Floor repairs in older homes are to 90% a complete redo.
If not, you mostly do only a patch over a patch that cost you only later. Double.
If you lay Schluter or Blanke, check on the web/You tube it is 100% Waterproof.
A big miss conception is that concrete boards are Waterproof, they are not, they can take on up to 20 % of Water, but its on page 3 of technical Info and who reads to Page 3? , what is a big problem with Moisture build up and double or triple layer floors, especially in the south, where the humidity is always high so the stuff then never dries out.
On all the repairs we find lots of problems with double layers.
I don't know your specific problem but if it is not to late you can use my E -Mail msch6791@verizon.net, for free advise. You have then to find an Installer in your aerea or do it also yourself It is not rocket science to do.
Chris
@@mastershake156 sal DiBlasi on UA-cam
I agree completely. The first time I used it I was sold on it.
That made the floor considerably higher…right? How did the bathroom door still clear all that? This was done in my house and our bathroom door has to be shoved to open all the way.
In a bath or kitchen with a possibility of water on the floor always use epoxy grout. A little extra in cost ,but for piece of mind it is worth it.
What is the advantage of tiling the shower floor vs a pre-fab standing shower tub beside the look? Would it be a chore to clean the grout on the shower floor?
Makes it look so easy
Recently went the opposite route and went from tile to vinyl tile. We set cement board and then tile which wasnt my idea because i didnt think the tile would stick but i got a roll on sealer to fill the porus cement board and it came out ok.
The bitch of doing tile and laying a subfloor for me were all the odd off cuts. I hate laying flooring with a passion both vinyl and i did tile my living room. I dont envy floor installers and/or tile setters. Hard work.
Thanks to this video, I've decided to hire a guy👍
Tile is not easy work. I'm a guy and I've done two bathrooms and I hate it so much I'll hire someone if I have to do any more. I'll do anything else in the house.
Tommy is a genius.
He's never grouted before... If he had, he would have never chosen that tile. 😆😂
So true!
Exactly what i was thinking that tile is good for a shower floor. Not room flooring.
True that. I used to be a tile setters grout monkey. That would suck.
especially the premixed stuff. nasty. gotta work fast.
@@rtta51 yep! It's nasty but once it's done it's done.
Good job Tommy as usually.
Did they need to cut the tile that'll be under the baseboard that has to be installed? It seems so, but if it's under the new baseboard, then does it matter? Is there a "finished room" video/photo?
I wish Tom was my dad. Mr Tom is my hero.
I have the small doweler system by Festool and though it cost $800 for the full tool and dowels vs $249 for it’s most expensive competitor i absolutely LOVE IT!!! That said I’m looking to retool many systems in my cabinet making shop. Do you recommend the Festool line of tools at the higher cost base or are the usual pro line tools ‘good enough; (i hate those words!)?
This is a great video and the man doing the work is a craftsman which is hard to find but the big misconception in this video is the project up to this point can not be done in one day with one craftsman and a novice
Is it necessary to install new subfloor if you have plank subfloors?
Is this commonly allowed in America, or just in some states? Where I live this isn't even remotely close to being up to code, since there's absolutely no real water barrier.
1:27 Ohh “Came up easy”
So the guy holding the camera just slept there till the thinset set up ? HAHAHA!!!!!
Beautiful tile. Really like!
If you wanted to can you turn a wet saw into a table saw??
Didn't score the base. 1:23 takes base off, big chunk of paint comes with it 😅
johnnylawrence that’s because Tommy is just another TV host hack
Great one, as usual!
Tom, I was told that the toilet flange should always rest on the FINISHED floor. Doesn't seem to be the case in this video. Am I missing something?!
Yep. Youre missing a brain...
Why place the toilet flange catch at an angle? Was there a concern of overlapping joints?
Instead of replacing tiles, would you recommend painting tile?
Yeah I need his help
Should there have been mention of asbestos abatement with that old vinyl peal'n stick? Or do we just let it disappear....
I don't think that tile ever had asbestos in it. VAT was the tile with the asbestos. That predates this peel and stick by many years.
So, we didn’t get to see the final product. Homeowner must have messed it up
That's hilarious. And probably correct.
The meager instructions about the grout application paved the way for that to happen. Next week. How to replace a tile floor.
Another episode shows the homeowner called Richard in to reinstall the toilet and sink.
So they didn't show what I watched the whole thing for: how do you adjust the door threshold 1/2” higher????
@@kurtvonfricken6829 now THAT is a good question!
So why did Tom say they had to replace the subfloor? What would have been wrong with the one the vinyl was on? Did they put new subflooring on top of the existing floor, or replace it? If the former, I guess I can understand - you'd want the additional rigidity. If the latter, it makes no sense to me at all.
@m rapacki no, I thought I'd ask a question that I could have answered by watching the video