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This is video 3 of the series.
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Okay, a bunch of stuff has happened
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since video number two. This is video
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number three of the install ceramic tile
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in a bathroom series. And uh first thing
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I want to say is if you you may do
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things differently than I do, that's
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okay. Um what I would recommend is if
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you do uh record your own video and
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upload it to your channel and then uh
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share it here in the comments, you know,
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instead of talking about it. You know
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the old saying, actions speak louder
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than words. All right, here's what's
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happened. All the cement boards on, the
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corner beads on. Um, it's going to get
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joint compound up at the top here. I'm
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not worried about that right now, but
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I'll do it uh in the morning. And what I
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want to talk about now is layout. Really
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kind of important. I went ahead and I
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drew a center line right here. That
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first tile is right on the pencil line.
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You can see it. And here's the vertical
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line here.
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And I just did that. That's exactly the
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center point of the shower base. All
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right. going left to right. And the
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measurement was uh 58 1/2 in. So half of
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that is 29 and a/4. All right. Now, what
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I wanted to show is I went ahead and I
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laid out some tiles here exactly. And
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remember, they're going to be subway. So
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there'll be a joint here. This is not
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exactly how it's going to look, but I
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just wanted to get the spacing. And it
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turns out that 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 tiles
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comes out to 12 and 1/4 in. Exactly. So
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I then created a 12 and 1/4 in space
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here. Put three more tiles and I ended
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up with this oh like 38 of an inch gap.
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So that's going to look really ugly. You
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don't want to just grout that. And you
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can't really easily cut a piece of tile
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that narrow. So what I'm going to end up
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doing to make that work out is I will
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start the tile this way. This is the
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kind of things you need to think about,
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you know, meaning I will split the
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center line of this tile will be on the
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pencil mark. So that when I do that,
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I'll end up with a much bigger piece of
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tile down here that I can cut and it'll
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look right and it'll do the same thing
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on this side. All right, those are the
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kind of things you need to think about.
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Now, what's going to happen here? So, I
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went ahead and I cut off this is a piece
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of tile here that's going to fit here.
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And you've got two choices. This tile
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comes with one end glazed. Here's a full
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one. One end glazed, one end not. I can
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tell you from years of experience,
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um, if you put this cut end down here
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and it gets wet and it's a lighter tile,
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you can get a dark mark here if water
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gets in there. So, I'm going to put
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these tiles in with a glazed end down
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when I go to do this. And of course,
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this is going to come up and these tiles
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here will overlap it, you know, when
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it's all done. I'm trying to do it, but
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and and uh show you what's going to
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really happen here. You know, it's going
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to look like this when it's all done.
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All right. So it's come really
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