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12mm trowel for sure and deffinetly moisten the gaps before applying grout.keep the smallest joint possible (1.5mm) with rectified edges, looks shmick. just make sure your tiles are perfectly flush at the joints, otherwise it stands out really bad, ruins a good job.
They will be a real **** to cut, being like 10mm thick, get yourself a tile wet saw for the day. Much, much easier, just add a little dish washing liquid to the water (helps with cooling blade)
you wanna use a either 8mm or 12mm trowel with that size tile.
when grouting use a water spay bottle and give the joints a light spray before u start, make sure your pushing the grout right in there, moist sponge, wipe off excess, then with a 2nd clean sponge go over it again.
keep it out of the floor to wall joint and internal wall corners (run a bead of coloured flexible sealant instead, due to movement grout will crack and fall out)
btw i could be talking **** im not a tiler, only a carpenter, seems to work though. goodluck. :thumbsup:
that's a 1.5mm joint used on my last attempt V V V V
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Nice job on the tiles. I helped my dad do a few of the rooms in his house, in the beginning we got a few profesionals to do stuff but they were allways short on time and made everything crooked so in the end once the house was at lockup my dad just finished the whole lot himself. Took him a couple of years of weekends but got there in the end
Nice job on the tiles. I helped my dad do a few of the rooms in his house, in the beginning we got a few profesionals to do stuff but they were allways short on time and made everything crooked so in the end once the house was at lockup my dad just finished the whole lot himself. Took him a couple of years of weekends but got there in the end
True that.
I helped my old man in 2 of his apartments. It takes time but you can get a result as good as a professional.
When I had a new kitchen installed in my place, I sat down at watched the guy work and he was happy to tell me all the tips and techniques he uses.
I'm actually considering tiling my house but I have over 70 square metres to do - so I might leave that to a professional.