How to Tile a Floor | Mitre 10 Easy As DIY 

This channel and this guy is one of the best diy content on RU-vid. I've spend the last 3 months looking at diy content.

if I lived in NZ, I would everything I could to be this blokes apprentice. A true craftsman!

Watched a few vids of this bloke, he turns DIY into art.

Great video mate your an artist. I’m going to tackle my own tiles in my house and this video will help me

I'm so happy I found this. Very straightforward.

Latest i have been told is remove the kickboards and tile past them to where the unit feet fit on the floor. That way, the kick boards are not stuck to the tiles. They can then be easily removed for any emergency. The kick boards are trimmed to accommodate the height of the tiles before they are refitted.

how fortunate for readers that i stumbled across this. Firstly; Tiles are only as good as the surface they're attached to. Surface should be clean, dry and reasonably flat. If the floor moves up and down don't tile it until you've added extra bracing to strengthen it. When you're satisfied the structure is solid ensure it is clean. If you have wooden floorboards, overlay with fibre cement board. The boards will likely move slightly and while your tile may survive you will have an issue with the grout popping out in places which will annoy you. If old but solid particleboard, apply a primer to stop contaminants (old yucky stuff) interfering with the adhesive's ability to bond to it. If the area is going to be subjected to regular wetting - e.g. you tend to overflow the bath occasionally, apply a waterproof membrane to the floor and slightly up the walls - 20mm or so, especially on an upper level. Include a floor waste so the water can escape, otherwise it will penetrate the grout joints which are NOT waterproof; hit the membrane and travel out of the room to, say, the hallway and you'll get the carpet wet. Yeech. Make sure the floor slopes slightly toward the waste. Set out and lay the tiles noting that the larger the tile the larger the notch in your trowel should be to facilitate adequate coverage of the adhesive under the tile. Back buttering the base of the tile with adhesive using the flat side of the trowel improves bonding and helps fill in any voids. Good bonding coverage is important because when some dainty girl enters the room wearing high heeled shoes the weight projected onto the floor at the point of the heel is more than the weight of a large elephant. If there is a void between the tile and floor - the heel can crack the tile. Once laid - stay away from them until you're confident the adhesive is dry enough to walk on (and add a contingency) If you interrupt the curing process you will likely compromise the installation. Grout and invite all your friends over to show off your DIY skills. You're welcome :)

Loved the clear instructions and video of each step.

Thanks so much Mitre 10 for these very helpful video tutorials.

I've already laid a few floors as a DIYer but you make some good videos and heck I will probably learn something new.

Favourite bit was when he threw the sponge and missed the bucket and he said cool.

Need this on my son's room floor.

You are the best sire. .. thanks for all your helps.

Lay all your tiles out and do all the cuts first. Then stack them in the order you want to re lay them. Mix your adhesive and lay in one go

I need a great big portion of fush and chups after that bro. sweet as, just knocking out my aunties 70s tiles from her beach hut in Coro, you have me some inspiration bro.

Great video. Looks great. Don't forget to seal the tile grout

i enjoyed watching this. a complicated project but you never lose your cool. job looks great

Thank you Sir. Your videos really help my house work.

👍👍👍 addicted watching your video... 😁

very particular man. he really love what he does

Excellent video well explained.

Nice 🙂. I actually did my tiles before watching this and fit my tile trim under the adjoining carpet instead of the tiles. Still looks fine though.

Your a legend mate

He makes it look so easy..

Thanks for your instruction. Very helpful.

Your the man bro👌🏻

Good job man your floors looking great

Nice explanation and neat work. I'd go with a diamond blade wet saw and parrot jaw nippers though.

Looks class mate ...very neat

Great work !

7:50 Internal commentary: "FFFFFUUUUCCC..." External commentary: "Cool."

nice work. hands on help.

Woow ur working style really suppeb

I have no idea why I'm watching this👸🏿👹🎅🏿😀😀😀

Perhaps it's just the flooring under the backer board, but typically manufactures recommend using fiberglass tape and thinset to "bond" each backboard to the one next to it, thus creating an entire new floor so to speak. but otherwise..looked good.

Good job 🏠🔨

Backbuttering tiles over 300x600 is standard now. The slate n tile has closer nail spacings on the edges tho.

Stans da Man

hi Great Work Sir I'm a Filipino Tile Setter In japan But I just Ended My contract and now I'm hoping to look for a job in new Zealand.

PS. But great video and well explained.

I like it sooo nice 🤩

Good job but I think them kick boards will be difficult to remove in future.....

EASY AS YEAH RIGHT

Thanks!

great job!

Quartz primer is the best solution for primer of tiling.

THANK FOR THE TIP HOW TO DO IT

very professional great skills , very handsome big shoes

Awesome!

I guess checking for the center to see where the first tile goes wasn't on your agenda today :)

Does the mask cover your nose too? I hope so. The particles?

thank u so much for this wonderful video. just a question, when u were cutting the tiles, did u take the width of the spacer into consideration? i know the spacer is only a couple of mm wide, but i believe there are more than a couple of spacers used. so did u count the length of spacers while cutting the tiles??

Wish you listed all the tools you used dad :/ I want to try do this in my kitchen

I recommend leaving the tiling for the tilers mate!

Some malls, streets, hotels have Star-shape at strategic locations, how do they do that?

Question, does kitchen tiles require waterproofing underneath? For Auckland council.

I thought you are not supposed to remove spacers?

What is the ratio of cement mixing to water or mixer?

Ceramic and vinyle tiles which is more durable?

Looks Grout mate Grout as

can anyone explain to me why do we need to space between the tiles?

Cool

Every thing is easy as...

why did they put drywall below tiles??

Retina well

ritey o, nice job lol

Take off any dags. Haha

Nice job ..... I hope he is on day work and not price per mtr 😅😅😅😅😅😅

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Wear a DUST MASK when cutting tiles dry. Silicosis is nasty!

No alligators down here

your tile will fail. always butter back the tile. sorry bud. wetting the tile will make it worse. lol

Are there any alligators down there?

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Can hear the same car going past every minute or so!

so many things wrong with this.....how are you going to get your kick boards off for one.

Just

Why not use a reusable tube gun like the sealent gun, and that way the grout will get a solid hold in between the tiles and a lot faster laying