I've worked with ceramic and porcelain before. I've been working with natural and cultured stone longer than some people have been alive. Today I couldn't get my porcelain to do what I wanted it to. Watching this helped me realize I made all the right decisions EXCEPT for how strict I was with starting off with a perfectly flat surface. I like you're work.
Thanks for a great video. I'm using the same 1/4" boarder strip to interface to 9'/16" hardwood. I may in the future go with tile so the ultra thick hardwood transition may become temporary. Using the same exact tile also. Worked with Len Wollard (who built the fountain and the rotunda at the Palace of Fine Arts) during my weekends on the peninsula south of San Francisco doing all sorts of masonry, and so some tile work will fill my portfolio nicely. Just finished grinding off the paint on the concrete floor. Now as soon as the dust clears, after a wipe down, it's time to start. Thanks for a nice vid, and your tile work is top notch!
Is it possible if you can do a video on bathroom ceiling tile installation and tips? One aspect of tiling that has always intrigued me. Great video btw
I'm very grateful for this video. I'm doing the exact same mosaics right now. I'm struggling with the little diamonds. It seems that most of the corners are to close on the backing.
HI. love the video. Lots of detailed steps. I see, when you are using the 1/4 x 1/4 trowel that it is not perpendicular to the floor surface. You hold it and drag it more at like a 45 degree angle. This reduces the 1/4" height of the thinset a bit. You have been doing this for years so obviously it works. Am I applying too much material if I drag it straight up and get the true 1/4" rib of thinset?
He didn’t show grouting the tiles unless I missed it. Or is ‘grouting’ the thinset he used that came up around the tiles??? I’m a newbie, about to do my first.
I just had my entry done with this mosaic tile and the spacing on all of the pieces are erratic and he said it was because that’s how it comes on the netting also you can’t rub your hand across it without it getting stubbed or cut because it’s got sharp edges sticking up all over the placeand the grout is so shallow in some places I don’t know what I can do at this point any advice?
I think I’m going to try using a grinder for my cuts that turned out nicely I was just always worried I would chip the shit out of the tiles but my wet saw sometimes does that and I end up having to polish it anyway
Thanks for making this video, it's difficult to find videos on installing small tile on bathroom floors. I do have a question, I'm interested in installing small tile on my bathroom floor with these conditions I have tongue and groove plank subfloor I would also like to install floor heating What do I put under the floor heating system? OR how do I seal that subfloor before self leveling compound? Thanks!
Say your surface isn't flat (wall or floor), is it really much harder to get the tiles flat? Say maybe over my wall, might be a 1/8 inch differences in certain spots. Couldn't that be overcame with the thinset? I kinda have this problem but gonna use 1/2x1/2 trowel for 12x24 in tiles.
Hearing protection dude. Those circular saws are especially bad. My ears will ring from them, after doing construction for about 15 years. Great videos!
I dunno about spirit-level even. I'd have to disagree there. These sheet tiles can flex a bit so are great for a bathroom with a slope (down to a drain) which you find in many bathrooms and all wet bathrooms. That's the main reason I went with sheet tiles. Smooth and even yes . . . but not level.
4:03 I know it’s a longshot, but I’m hoping that you can tell me the brand of the white hex and dot tile you’re using. I can’t seem to find any that run even close to true. Thanks for posting your videos.
I plan to use the same blade you have, but I just have a cheap, one-speed grinder. Do you use a variable speed grinder? Do you have a particular rpm you notice works best with your grinder?
Great video. Only thing I don’t like is the floor tiles being installed first before the wall tiles. Now you’re going to step on the new floor tiles and possibly scratching/damage them while working on the wall tiles.
Couldn't disagree more on your recommendation of starting at the tub and not worrying about how the rest of it falls. I've done more of these than I can fathom counting and no 2 are the same. Starting at the tub without checking the rest of the floor is asking for trouble. Especially fire a diyer that would be watching this video. If you have a long bathroom and your tub isn't square with the longest wall you're going to end up with a cut that could start full on one side and get small down the length of the wall. Run a control line off your longest walk and check your tub for square prior to making any concrete decisions, then adjust your layout accordingly to what is most visually pleasing. Remember not all tub skirts are straight, some have a slight bow as well.
@@BathroomRemodelingTeacher it depends on the tile and if the tub is really out of square. If it is you can run a cut slightly out of square at the tub so the cut doesn't taper that bad along a wall. If done right you'll never notice
@Donavan Sanchez, ever heard of the phrase, “seek first to understand before seeking to be understood”? You don’t do it very well , man. You’ve shared your way of viewing tile layout. It’s different than what Steve does. Let it go, dude. It doesn’t mean you have to go knocking on Steve’s approach and what he’s trying to do with his channel. Give the guy a break. If you feel that passionately about it, go start your own channel.
Jesus is the answer. Whoever is reading this you may feel lost in life; you may feel like giving up, wishing it would all end. You want peace, but can’t find it. You’ve looked for it in women, drugs, alcohol, porn, money, and so much more, but you feel emptier the more you do it. The only one who can fill us is Jesus Christ, the living God; the one who came into this world as a man and died on the cross to save us from our sins (our wrongdoings against God). If you trust in Christ as your Lord and Savior you will be saved and you will go to Heaven when you die. One thing many people think once they come to God is everything will be perfect. The truth is it won’t be. Once you give your life to Christ the devil will attack you over and over again until you break, but Christ is there to strengthen you and to get you through all things. Give your life to Christ my friends. Without him, life means nothing.
Jesus is a teacher not god stop trying so hard to show people the right way when you can’t find it yourself pray and seek god and read the Bible ask god to show you its meaning
Jesus claimed to be God, number one reason why they had him killed. You should read the bible, especially isaiah 53 and the gospels. He was sinless and Gods sacraficial lamb. His sacrifice is the reason why the temple sacrifices are now redundant@@InResponseOutreach
i know you do good work but i see many things here that honestly look bad. im not talking about cut layout but sheet layout is important and what i see is poor sheet layout here. on both sides you have small sheets, meaning that when you cut these tiles, its best to work with a big portion of sheet, its just easier to make cuts off of a big section rather than trying to cut and install a section of sheet thats like an inch big. you have individual pieces on one side and a section of 1.5 inches on the other, if you just moved over the sheet layout towards the toilet wall like 4 inches, both sides would of been a bigger sheet cut. you said you like to pre cut, but you mudded the second row before making toilet cuts, which now you thin set is drying up. pre cutting should be done on every row before thin setting. also , yes that trowel is enough coverage, but only if you rake it harder, clearly you have to much thin set up the joints creating more work for yourself because of inconsistent troweling. directional troweling means nothing if your not fully bedding them and your not doing that because you know the trowel is a bit too deep. no shuffling of tile from box to box and not inspecting tiles for flaws, your just pulling from straight from one box. total disaster with Schluter at door , that schluter should of been set beforehand and floated outwards, you just dont do it like you showed, total armature move there. lastly keep your hands clean, you constantly have thin set on your hands all the time, just look at your tools, especially that angle grinder, thats just outright nasty. not a good video brother
This man is the tile king
I’m highly impressed with the attention to detail
👊🏻👊🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Your tip for using a brush to clean the thin set up at the door cut is the best part of the clip!
I'm bringing you a coffee and donut tomorrow morning. Dude, you've helped me so much. Great videos.
I've worked with ceramic and porcelain before. I've been working with natural and cultured stone longer than some people have been alive. Today I couldn't get my porcelain to do what I wanted it to. Watching this helped me realize I made all the right decisions EXCEPT for how strict I was with starting off with a perfectly flat surface. I like you're work.
Love the tile inside the schluter trick. Pretty slick. 👍🏼
I think that is my favorite of your bathrooms that I've seen yet. I like the colors and layout. Simple and efficient. Very good job. 👍🏼
Thanks for a great video. I'm using the same 1/4" boarder strip to interface to 9'/16" hardwood. I may in the future go with tile so the ultra thick hardwood transition may become temporary. Using the same exact tile also. Worked with Len Wollard (who built the fountain and the rotunda at the Palace of Fine Arts) during my weekends on the peninsula south of San Francisco doing all sorts of masonry, and so some tile work will fill my portfolio nicely. Just finished grinding off the paint on the concrete floor. Now as soon as the dust clears, after a wipe down, it's time to start. Thanks for a nice vid, and your tile work is top notch!
Ok. I'm about to do this. Thanks for the tips.
This is exactly the video i needed thanks man from Scotland
Is it possible if you can do a video on bathroom ceiling tile installation and tips? One aspect of tiling that has always intrigued me. Great video btw
I'm very grateful for this video. I'm doing the exact same mosaics right now. I'm struggling with the little diamonds. It seems that most of the corners are to close on the backing.
Thank you sir! informative, no BS, well done! now lets tile the new bathroom 🙂
Your channel is a goldmine of quality content. Keep it up!
This is the video I needed to see. Thanks!
Beautiful work
HOw'd the camera person get out of the tub?
😂😂 good observation
Wondering the same 😂
Knocking down thin set ridges with drywall knife has always helped with my mortar squish though on mosiacs
This was so helpful!! Loved it.
Thanks for the excellent tips
Great video, thank you.
Awesome, thank you so much, I hope you make your fortune.
HI. love the video. Lots of detailed steps. I see, when you are using the 1/4 x 1/4 trowel that it is not perpendicular to the floor surface. You hold it and drag it more at like a 45 degree angle. This reduces the 1/4" height of the thinset a bit. You have been doing this for years so obviously it works. Am I applying too much material if I drag it straight up and get the true 1/4" rib of thinset?
You forgot camera man in the tub, but great work!
What is that grinder tool you are using to make those custom cuts on the tiles?
Really nice work. I wonder what it would have looked like if you had used a darker grout?
He didn’t show grouting the tiles unless I missed it. Or is ‘grouting’ the thinset he used that came up around the tiles??? I’m a newbie, about to do my first.
dang that looks nice,so many tricks to doing things
You help me a lot, I going to install Adelaide Tile, the another one that you had
Love it! What grout did you use?
I just attempted a mosaic tile job like the black and white sheets in your intro. I was not properly prepared for this job.
Do you have a video showing the installation of the toilet flange?
Thank You for making this video.
Did you tile directly onto the self-leveler? No underlay?
It looks like he coated the floor and up the wall with hydro ban liquid waterproof
I just had my entry done with this mosaic tile and the spacing on all of the pieces are erratic and he said it was because that’s how it comes on the netting also you can’t rub your hand across it without it getting stubbed or cut because it’s got sharp edges sticking up all over the placeand the grout is so shallow in some places I don’t know what I can do at this point any advice?
I think I’m going to try using a grinder for my cuts that turned out nicely I was just always worried I would chip the shit out of the tiles but my wet saw sometimes does that and I end up having to polish it anyway
Thanks for making this video, it's difficult to find videos on installing small tile on bathroom floors. I do have a question, I'm interested in installing small tile on my bathroom floor with these conditions
I have tongue and groove plank subfloor
I would also like to install floor heating
What do I put under the floor heating system? OR how do I seal that subfloor before self leveling compound?
Thanks!
Say your surface isn't flat (wall or floor), is it really much harder to get the tiles flat? Say maybe over my wall, might be a 1/8 inch differences in certain spots. Couldn't that be overcame with the thinset? I kinda have this problem but gonna use 1/2x1/2 trowel for 12x24 in tiles.
Hearing protection dude. Those circular saws are especially bad. My ears will ring from them, after doing construction for about 15 years. Great videos!
So you dont butter the tile? I know you do on large format tile. But not the small stuff?
If you’re using mosaics over a heated floor what come first, the heated floor or the waterproofing?
Great video and tips! Thanks
I dunno about spirit-level even. I'd have to disagree there. These sheet tiles can flex a bit so are great for a bathroom with a slope (down to a drain) which you find in many bathrooms and all wet bathrooms. That's the main reason I went with sheet tiles. Smooth and even yes . . . but not level.
Excellent presentation I subscribed
Like how you get right to it..
Hey great work!! Awesome info and presentation. What is the difference between Ardex x5 and x77 ?
77 is a much more sticky & fluffy consistency. I use the 77 for the real intricate stuff like glass mosaics (primary benefit on walls)
4:03 I know it’s a longshot, but I’m hoping that you can tell me the brand of the white hex and dot tile you’re using. I can’t seem to find any that run even close to true. Thanks for posting your videos.
We used the same in our bathroom, from Home Depot (Hudson) or Lowes (Daltile).
I plan to use the same blade you have, but I just have a cheap, one-speed grinder. Do you use a variable speed grinder? Do you have a particular rpm you notice works best with your grinder?
How much££££ for this bathroom?
Thx
Can you put this on the wall the same way your doing the floor
Great video. Only thing I don’t like is the floor tiles being installed first before the wall tiles. Now you’re going to step on the new floor tiles and possibly scratching/damage them while working on the wall tiles.
👍 ram board 👍
No shudder system under the penny tile?
how did the camera guy get out of the tub??
Legend has it, he never got out. I hear he still there to this day…
😂
Magic😂
How long did the guy have to stand in the tub before he could get out without wrecking your wro😛
Pleas how can I curt a floor straight and fast!?
How did your camera 🎥 person manage to get out of the tub, without walking over the freshly set tile ?
Did they sleep 💤 in there ?
😂😂😂😂😂
Almost 2024 and the camera guy still waiting in the tub
I doubt the claim that to get a good bond it needs to be dry. Most tiles recommend to wet the tile before setting it.
🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟
Couldn't disagree more on your recommendation of starting at the tub and not worrying about how the rest of it falls. I've done more of these than I can fathom counting and no 2 are the same. Starting at the tub without checking the rest of the floor is asking for trouble. Especially fire a diyer that would be watching this video. If you have a long bathroom and your tub isn't square with the longest wall you're going to end up with a cut that could start full on one side and get small down the length of the wall. Run a control line off your longest walk and check your tub for square prior to making any concrete decisions, then adjust your layout accordingly to what is most visually pleasing. Remember not all tub skirts are straight, some have a slight bow as well.
Well we can agree to disagree. Thanks for the comment. You make valid points 👍
@@BathroomRemodelingTeacher wow. It's simply bad advice.
@@wyseguy77 no, not really. Not sure why you would want to offset anything oddly at the tub. It’s the most visible area of the bathroom
@@BathroomRemodelingTeacher it depends on the tile and if the tub is really out of square. If it is you can run a cut slightly out of square at the tub so the cut doesn't taper that bad along a wall. If done right you'll never notice
@Donavan Sanchez, ever heard of the phrase, “seek first to understand before seeking to be understood”? You don’t do it very well , man.
You’ve shared your way of viewing tile layout. It’s different than what Steve does. Let it go, dude. It doesn’t mean you have to go knocking on Steve’s approach and what he’s trying to do with his channel. Give the guy a break. If you feel that passionately about it, go start your own channel.
Jesus is the answer. Whoever is reading this you may feel lost in life; you may feel like giving up, wishing it would all end. You want peace, but can’t find it. You’ve looked for it in women, drugs, alcohol, porn, money, and so much more, but you feel emptier the more you do it. The only one who can fill us is Jesus Christ, the living God; the one who came into this world as a man and died on the cross to save us from our sins (our wrongdoings against God). If you trust in Christ as your Lord and Savior you will be saved and you will go to Heaven when you die. One thing many people think once they come to God is everything will be perfect. The truth is it won’t be. Once you give your life to Christ the devil will attack you over and over again until you break, but Christ is there to strengthen you and to get you through all things. Give your life to Christ my friends. Without him, life means nothing.
Sir your at a tile class.
Jesus is a teacher not god stop trying so hard to show people the right way when you can’t find it yourself pray and seek god and read the Bible ask god to show you its meaning
Amen
Jesus claimed to be God, number one reason why they had him killed. You should read the bible, especially isaiah 53 and the gospels. He was sinless and Gods sacraficial lamb. His sacrifice is the reason why the temple sacrifices are now redundant@@InResponseOutreach
@elcapitan5680 Galatians 6:3 - God will not be mocked. Be careful.
i know you do good work but i see many things here that honestly look bad. im not talking about cut layout but sheet layout is important and what i see is poor sheet layout here. on both sides you have small sheets, meaning that when you cut these tiles, its best to work with a big portion of sheet, its just easier to make cuts off of a big section rather than trying to cut and install a section of sheet thats like an inch big. you have individual pieces on one side and a section of 1.5 inches on the other, if you just moved over the sheet layout towards the toilet wall like 4 inches, both sides would of been a bigger sheet cut. you said you like to pre cut, but you mudded the second row before making toilet cuts, which now you thin set is drying up. pre cutting should be done on every row before thin setting. also , yes that trowel is enough coverage, but only if you rake it harder, clearly you have to much thin set up the joints creating more work for yourself because of inconsistent troweling. directional troweling means nothing if your not fully bedding them and your not doing that because you know the trowel is a bit too deep. no shuffling of tile from box to box and not inspecting tiles for flaws, your just pulling from straight from one box. total disaster with Schluter at door , that schluter should of been set beforehand and floated outwards, you just dont do it like you showed, total armature move there. lastly keep your hands clean, you constantly have thin set on your hands all the time, just look at your tools, especially that angle grinder, thats just outright nasty. not a good video brother
Hey frank, thanks for watching and thoroughly reviewing my video, but go pound salt pal 👊
not a problem, but rest assured i will do it correctly.
😂@@BathroomRemodelingTeacher