Install Bathroom Ceramic Tile Video #4

It's another day. This is video four in

the series and I want to talk about a

bunch of little things before we start

putting tile in. It's all very important

for your job. First thing is protecting

surfaces. Look down here. So, we had a

bunch I saved all the boxes that the uh

luxury vinyl plank came in on purpose

cuz I wanted to be able to flatten them

out and use them to protect the floor.

You don't want to be working on drop

cloths because we're going to be using

thin set or even if you use mastic. If

that stuff gets on a drop cloth, it just

messes it up. So, I find that cardboard

is easier. You may use something else.

If you do, let us know in the comments

or record your own video. I also

took the time to put down a moving

blanket over the um existing shower. You

know, you don't want to drop anything on

that. You don't want to chip the

acrylic. So, it's all about protecting

all the surfaces. Next,

we're going to have a wall hung toilet

on this job. All right. So, it's really

critical. So, I took the toilet itself

and made this template. I tra I laid it

down the back of the toilet, traced it,

and cuz you need to create the lines

here

so you know where to stop the ceramic

tile. So, you'll see as we do this, it's

not so important to get tile here, but

it's very important to have tile here,

here, and this pipe is really close to

the top of the toilet. We we did a

measurement from this line down to the

top of the pipe is 3/4 of an inch. I'm

going to hold the tile down a/ inch and

we'll be okay. So, that's really

important. Another thing, here's the

control box that

activates the toilet, you know, when you

flush it. And it comes with this really

neat plaster guard, but it's very

flexible. And this acts as a great guide

as to where to stop the tile. But if I

have the tile and it bends down, that's

not going to be good. All right. So, we

cut this piece of wood to keep make that

stiff. It's the exact same inner

dimension as here. So, now this is

stiff. I'll be able to set the tile on

top of here and everything's going to

work out just fine. So, those are the

things I wanted to cover. All this kind

of stuff you need to be thinking about

before you even start to mix up the thin

set or pop the lid on the mastic.