When installing large format tile there must be at least 90 mortar contact and a minimum grout joint of 3 16.
Installing large tile on wall.
First apply the adhesive onto the back of the slab with a 3mm tile trowel.
To install ceramic wall tile use a level and measuring tape to mark the tile locations on the wall with chalk.
Then every subsequent row is a process of draping over the pyramid back and forth so.
For proper installation floors and other horizontal surfaces need to be level and vertical.
Installing large format tile large format tiles must be supported properly.
So if the tiles are 10 inches high the line should be 10 25 inches off the floor.
Repeat your second drape in the opposite direction.
Tiles one two three and four.
Begin your first drape on either right or left side and walk it up over and down the other side.
The recommended adhesive is c2te s1 and it must be spread over in one direction only.
Mark a horizontal line along the bottom of the wall coming up from the floor by the height of your tile plus one quarter inch.
Maximum deviation from flatness of 1mm per 2 meters length measured.
Obviously large format tiles are heavier than smaller tiles.
Use long sweeping motions to apply mortar to the wall and start placing your tiles in the marked locations.
Level floors plumb walls.
Large format tile installation requires particular attention to proper substrate preparation grout joint sizing trowel selection and mortar coverage.