Re-tiling Your Kitchen
Redecoratingyour kitchen can be quite a hassle, especially if you plan on re-tiling thefloor and walls. If you ever find yourself in such a situation, calling for aprofessional to do the work ma...
Redecoratingyour kitchen can be quite a hassle, especially if you plan on re-tiling thefloor and walls. If you ever find yourself in such a situation, calling for aprofessional to do the work may be tempting. However, even though it's easy tomake mistakes and hard to fix them, professional help shouldn't be necessary.Dealing with the kitchen tiles on your own is much cheaper!The first, and definitely hardest, part is removing the old kitchen wall tiles.Removing the old kitchen floor tiles is also hard and time consuming, butremoving the kitchen wall tiles usually creates more of a mess. You willprobably need a hammer, a scraper, a pry bar, a chisel, a grout removal tooland possibly a sledgehammer. Don't forget to protect yourself with a dust mask,safety goggles and a pair of gloves. Before you start working you should alsoshut off all water lines and electrical outlets in the room. The best way toremove tiles is to first remove all the grout around the tiles, and then usethe scraper to loosen the tiles one at a time. This way, you will avoidbreaking the tiles. At times, though, you may have to resort to more drasticmethods, such as using the pry bar or even breaking a tile with thesledgehammer. Just clean up properly afterwards, patch up or replace thewall/floor that was behind the old tiles and make sure the surface is smoothbefore you start installing the new kitchen tiles. But first you'll have tochoose which tiles you think will suit the rest of your kitchen best.
When that's done, it's time to measure how many tiles you'll need. Always buymore than you need, as it's easy to make mistakes when tiling. Then it's timeto measure your floor and walls. Some people like to start from the centre andwork outwards when tiling, but it's not required as long as you make sure thedistances between all your tiles are the same. When placing the tiles, it isrecommended that you apply the adhesive you're using only to small areas at atime, and then place the tiles that go there. Never let the adhesive dry beforeyou've placed the tiles on it. When needed, cut tiles with a tile cutting tool.When you've tiled the whole wall/floor, use a rubber float to apply grout betweenthe tiles. When the grout has dried, you're almost done. Now is the time toclean up afterwards, and wash away the excess grout from the tiles. Hopefullyyou'll be happy with your new kitchen tiles and won't have to re-tile the wholeroom again!
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