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Install Bathroom Ceramic Tile Video #60fps
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I think this is video number six in the
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series. All right, I want to say
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something right before we get going.
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I've been installing ceramic tile for 50
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years. All right. Am I the best tile
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setter? No. Have I done enough tile to
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have a pretty good idea of what's going
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on? Yes. Okay. Here's something that's
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really important. Remember, we're
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installing this tile this way. All
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right. And it's going to be subway with
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a a half a tile here. All right. Here's
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what you don't want to have happen. You
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don't want to just start putting pieces
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of tile down on the floor, full pieces,
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and then end up like this with a tiny
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piece at the top. You want to figure it
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out so that you end up with either the
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tile touching, which is very hard to do,
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or you have to cut off a little bit. So,
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guess what? The distance from the floor
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down up to the ceiling to here happens
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to be 92 and a/4 in. Let's go show you
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what I did to make sure it's going to
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work out.
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While I was busy doing something else in
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the bathroom, I had my son do me a
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favor. Look at this.
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I told him to take the tiles and put
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them end to end as they're going to be
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on the wall on the floor here. All
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right. So, these are nice and tight.
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They were in a straight line. I've got
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the tape measure on there.
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And guess what?
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We really, really lucked out. I know
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it's upside down for you. It's 93 in. So
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that means on the floor, we can start
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with a full piece of tile. And when we
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get up to the ceiling, we just have to
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cut off 3/4 of an inch. So it's going to
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look like almost a full tile at the top.
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And that also means that the subway
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tile, all right, instead of it being
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half of one of these pieces, instead of
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it being half, it's going to get cut off
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just a little bit. So it'll be a nice
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big full piece at the top. And that's
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really important. So if you're ever
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going to have small pieces or it works
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out in your situation, you're not lucky
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like me, you want to have all your small
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stuff down at the bottom. Most people's
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eyes don't go down to the floor, they're
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going up. And in our case, think about
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it. The toilet's in the way, the
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vanity's in the way. So, you have a lot
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of things to hide those small pieces of
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tile. So, you got to think all this
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through before you get started.
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