Compensating For Different Floor Tile Thickness

It happens all the time.

Compensating for different floor tile thickness.

Since the product is installed with medium bed mortar adjustments can be made to accommodate for different floor tile thickness to ensure the floor is level. Use a code system to indicate the different thickness of tiles. For example use a to represent border tiles that are 1 2 inch thick and b. This method works for backsplashes shower walls even tile floors.

Your main shower tile is 3 8 thick or thicker and your glass accent tile or mosaic is 5 16 or less with some as thin as 1 8. The average do it yourselfer can correct this problem with the proper tools and by following a few simple instructions. Mosaic tiles give you a chance to flex your creative interior design muscles since it comes in so many different shapes sizes colors styles and even materials. Installing different shapes and tile material to your walls can often result in the smaller tiles likely made of glass to be a different thickness than ceramic tile.

What do you do with tiles of different thicknesses. The average minimum thickness is the same for both materials but porcelain tiles come in thicker options. In contrast ceramic tiles range from 1 4 to 3 8 inch in standard thickness. I recommend using them sparingly morgan says.

Plan the layout of the tiles on graph paper. Standard porcelain tile thickness ranges between 1 4 and 3 4 inch thick. Chinese slate tiles of 16 inch by 16 inch can have a thickness of 1 2 to 9 16 inch whereas indian slate tiles of the same size can vary between 7 16 and 1 2 inch in thickness. Mosaic tiles work best on wall applications when an accent is needed.

Tiles of different heights.