The thought process of how to begin tile installation on kitchen backsplash.
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Some of what I said in the video:
"We're about to start installing this backsplash. It goes from here, we have a window in the way, corner there and it goes up to this end. Tile is 12 x 4 inches, brick pattern - I'm gonna start with a full tile it means full tile here and then the next row is half. Before I put the first tile on the wall, I want to know what kind of pieces am I going to have everywhere - am I gonna have small cuts by the window or in the corner or there, that the customer may not want to have? The homeowner chose to have a metal trim, jolly Schluter chrome - this is a sample I had in my truck - this covers the end of the tile so you don't see the unfinished part. Wants to buy a a one piece marble for the window sill and overlaps so we're not gonna have a metal trim on this tile edge. Does it matter to have full tile here starting this way? If you choose that, I have no control over what tile pieces I'm gonna have against the window. If you start with full here, then you have a piece that's 1/4 inch and I have no control over what's here because you started with the full tile here so whatever the pattern gives me, that's where I have to cut. Also, I have no control over what's in the corner and then when we reach the corner whatever tiles I'm gonna have there, ideally I want to continue the pattern on the other side of the wall. If I reach the corner and I have a 3" tile piece, that means the leftover is 9" and if I do that and continue the pattern then when I reach here, I have no control over what kind of tile piece I'm gonna have. You have two sides for the window so does it matter to have equal tile pieces or does it matter just not to have very small pieces. If I start with full tile, there will be a quarter of an inch tile pieces by the window sides. If I start with with full tile on the other side of the backsplash, we'll have a two and a half inch tile piece and four inches here by window, so then you say oh okay they're not that small but they're not even so when it's done somebody may say, well why didn't you go for equal pieces on the sides of the window because they look like uneven. So then how do you install the tile to avoid small pieces and uneven pieces of tile on the sides of the window? The solution is to still center the tile but cut from the end of the 2 tile in the middle, make them equal to each other but smaller than a full piece of tile so I can fit four pieces of tile under the window in a less than 47 inch space. That means I have avoided small pieces on the sides of the window but guess what, if you do that you have no control over what piece you're going to end up with at the backsplash edge - in this case I measured and we'll have full and half with 1/8 of an inch inside that line by countertop's end. If line it up with the counter, then we have a tiny sliver of a tile next to the full tile - we don't want that so as long as I make sure that the metal trim - Schluter jolly - that I'm going to put here around the window and the other end of the kitchen backsplash can fit a certain number of full tile and half, then it's perfect and that cover plate stays on the tile and doesn't overlap. Start with full tile here and go to the corner - we don't have any control over what piece is going to be in the corner but I did the math and it's three inches which is small but not small enough to be a deal breaker. The leftover from that cut is a nine inch piece that can go on the other wall and I'm gonna end up pretty much 99% accuracy - with a full tile piece at the end by the cabinet. I don't want to take a chance on - when I'm here I'm putting the last piece of tile - to have a small gap like 1/4 inch so instead of after I put the three inch tile here, I'm gonna start with full tile at the other end, knowing that when I get here, the nine inch tile can fit perfectly, or I need to shave a bit from it or I have to cut another one that's nine and an eight or nine and a quarter. The 3" & 9" tiles are going to form together a full piece that was cut because of the wall corner and the beauty is the tile pattern flows from one wall to the next. These tiles going to be smaller in height because the wall above the sink is about three inches and the tile is four inches so I have to cut one inch from the top of the tile. That's the plan for this particular backsplash. You have to do your own homework for your own backsplash, tile size, etc. All tile installed. We have full tile going from the window - 4 tile pcs. here, 2 tile cut a bit short so four pieces of tile would fit within almost 47". The metal trim is just one piece - it's bent in the corner I chose to bend it instead of cut. Grout tomorrow and then put back all the outlets, switches and covers."
3 окт 2024
