How to Start a Floor Tile Installation

-Hello everyone, I'm Manu from the chain to become a tiler. Today we are going to watch the start of the pose, the layout on the ground, where we must place our first tile to start the pose. For those new to us, I had already made the same video for the two-part wall mounting, so what I do is file it for you and you will find it at the end of the video. Go really see these two parts on the start of installation on the wall, it will give you additional knowledge. For the layout on the ground, we will do the same thing, we will do it in two parts. In this first part we will look at all the starting methods on the ground in a room which is quite small but which still encounters some obstacles that will allow us to look in detail at the start. And, depending on all the questions you will ask me in commentary in this first part, I will do a second and we will start a pose, a layout, in a villa. I'll give you a little guided tour so that you can clearly see the room. So here we are in the training boxes where I do my information, there is no plasterboard but hey we are going to act as if it was there. So there we are at the entrance with the simulation of the door frame and this is what the room looks like. Basically we have an opening and in short we have a kind of room. We are going to juggle between the painting and the room so that we can really detail the entire operating mode to set up the layout. We are going to look at three different starts: we will look at the rapid start, in second we will look at the precision start and last, because I know you are going to ask me the question, we are going to look at how to start in full within the framework of door. So here are the three big departures that we are going to look at. For those who have already seen the start on the wall, whole in front of the door frame, it is the same as when we say to arrive whole at the ceiling, it can be a good start but it is not always the most judicious start depending on the dimensions of your room. But we will still see how we do it because it can also be aesthetic if it fits well.

The rapid departure

-We will start with the start of speed. The rapid start is the easiest start since the rapid start we will say that we do not do too many calculations, we go as quickly as possible. The wall which will present the least constraints is this one because it is perfectly straight. So we're going to line up two tiles against this wall, okay, hop two tiles. We are going to set our starting rule and we will start whole on the side which is the most square, so we will control with a square these two partitions and these two partitions. The one that will be the most square, we will start whole on this side. Come on, let's watch it live! So we take two tiles and my braces and I put two tiles on one side, hop, like this. I put two braces against the partition to leave a play if the partition is not perfect and I come to put the second, that's it, like this. And I do the same on the other side. Once this operation is done, I will come and press my rule against my two tiles, like that. So there you have to have your two tiles are aligned on your ruler, if you are not perfectly aligned, you align them perfectly on the ruler, okay, you will align them perfectly on both sides, so you pull the together towards the rule. You pull the assembly towards the rule and you check against the wall that you do not have a joint that exceeds 1 cm or otherwise the complaint will not be able to cover. For the rapid departure we can already immediately set our rule since our departure has already been made. To wedge the rule, I do it like this, I put a tile on the ground against the rule, like that, it already gives me a benchmark. I put a second against it and then I put some on top of it so that it doesn't move. And I redo the same operation opposite. What we're going to do right away is that we're going to draw our starting line like this if in the break or, I know not, in the preparation you type in the rule, you know where your rule. So there you immediately draw a line. I'm going to do it with a felt-tip pen so you can see it, you do it with a pencil. Now we will have to determine, then we know that we are going to start full on the rule but we will have to determine how we are going to start on the length. As I told you earlier, we will control the lighting of the two partitions and we will start on the partition which is the most square. I take the square and come and check the angle of the partitions. So, I start here, I put it against and I see what it gives, here I am not bad. There I must have 1 millimeter or two on almost 2 meters, it is nothing, it will pass in the complaint. I'll look the other way. Same operation there

Precison departure

Now we will look at the departure precision, you will understand why. By starting quickly we did not calculate how we arrived on this partition, how we arrived here and by starting whole at the bottom to simplify the life, we have a small cut at the bottom, it's not great we can do better at the start. For the precision start we will balance our cuts so we will trace the axes of the part. So over there, for the width we're going to draw and the axis in the width of the room, okay. So in fact this recess that we have here is quite simply a closet, we often have that in the bedrooms, we have a closet. So no matter how it goes to the bottom of the closet, we'll never see it. So on the precision start we balance our cuts everywhere. So technically we will take the length and we will divide it by two to draw its axis. Now that we have seen in theory, we will see in practice. So when I say start on the axis of the diamond, so there are actually two types of start. Once we have drawn, we will be able to make a start either at the axis of the tiling therefore on this profile, or the axis of the joint, that is to say by putting a tile in view of the attached. There you have it, these are the two big starts that we will be able to make in one direction or the other and in all cases all our cuts will be balanced. So here we are going to trace the axes of the room in both directions. So suddenly let's go! I take the length, I put myself on one side, then I put myself as much against the wall as possible, tac, I take the dimension and I divide it by two. So I have 260, 260 divided by two that will make me 130. Now I'm going to come and plot 130, tac. So here I am going to leave before the closet as we said that there we had the closet. I do not draw in the closet, I take the odds before the closet, and here we are lucky, we are at 260 so that will give us the same odds. I'm going to trace 130. I'm going to take my ruler and I'm going to connect my two lines. My first axis is drawn, it is here, we can see it clearly. Now I'm going to do the same on the other side. Now it's okay, the two centerlines we see them, I have one here, I have a second, they are done. I stepped back so that you could see the space, that's the advantage of not having the partitions made. We have our two axes, now we will see how we will make the start as we saw on the board. So, the first step: we trace the axis on the tiles. So we come to take the odds, there we have 45 by 45, tac, so that will make us 22.5. Draw the axis well on your tile like this, ok. So the first thing to do is to determine starting from the axis of the tile on our first axis how we are going to fall on each side. Be sure to lay the tile dry in relation to the axis, so we come to draw the axis on the other side, 22.5. So here we align the axes of the tile with respect to the axis. Once we have done that, we will present our tiles on each side to see how we fall with the braces. So there, starting from the axis of the tiling, with respect to the axis of the room, we will arrive half rebate with a cut of 17. So, a cut is pretty as long as it is at least half of a tile. So there it would take a cut of at least 22.5 for it to be a good cut. Here we will say that it is not a beautiful cut. So there it was not going, we are at the axis of the tiling with respect to the axis of the room, this time we are going to start at the axis of the joint, that is to say like this, hop. So we line up well with the line and come and present our tiles. This time we started at the axis of the tile joint in relation to the axis of the room, we will look at the cuts. So we have 39 on one side, so here we have a very nice cut. 39 it's a very nice cut, we are over half. And on the other side, so we will look on the partition, logically we have the same dimension, if we stand on the partition we will see 39 and against the wall, here, we will see 44. So this departure is much more judicious starting from the axis of the seal, we have 40 almost in front of the door and basically we are almost whole. So not whole perfectly, we will have to cut it, it is better to cut a square tile of agreement than to be whole neat because if the wall opens, after you will have a big joint, if it s' open too let's admit. If the wall instead of being like that, it's like this, at first you're going to be whole, then after you get to the bottom you're going to have a big joint. After that we have to say to ourselves that we still have the complaint on the tiling that comes in recovery, so in general we have about a centimeter of play. There in any case for this departure of precision, it is the best departures, we know our departure. Here we know that for our first axis, we will call this one axis 1, we know that we will start from the axis of the joint. Now we are going to do the same operation on the other side

The entire departure

Now we are going to watch from the start how we get to the bottom. So there, same operation, I leave the 3 mm, I trace flush, I leave 3 mm, I trace flush, I leave 3 mm, I trace flush, I leave 3 mm, I trace flush. So here we're going to have ¾ of a cut, okay, and instead if I extend my stroke we'll have almost a whole square, here, against the door. In this start we had a ¾ cut here against this wall. There against the two small returns of the partition, we had a ¾ cut and there we were almost whole. And in the closet we had a whole tile. So here we can say that out of the three starts that we saw, whole in the door frame, it was the most judicious start because this is where we are going to have the most large cuts possible and visually that ' is where we will have the most whole tiles. The easiest way not to get lost when you're whole in the doorframe is obviously you can't attack in front of the entrance, because if you attack in front of the entrance you can't get out. The tiles can be presented dry to provide an exit afterwards. So the idea is that we will position our starting rule here, okay. So it is this tile that will give us the meaning we have just placed our rule perfectly against the tile. When you have aligned your rule in relation to this tile, we will check that the partition is completely complete. So there we are whole, we have a little play and we check thoroughly. You see by putting yourself well against we will have 6.7 mm so it's okay that will go under the complaint. Once we have done that, it's good, we come to wedge the rule as I have shown you from the beginning. So we come to wedge the rule delicately, we did not make it move, you hold it well. When we make a tiling start we must be able to leave the room. Well then we could exit by the second door, let's say we don't have the second door, we would have to be able to exit by the entrance. So what I recommend is to present two blank tiles, you leave the two blank tiles laid without glue and you attack on the third tile. You attack the third one, you continue the line on the ruler, then you remove the ruler and you continue in the same direction, starting from the third up to the wall. And after like that, it will allow you to come out in this direction in both rows. Here, listen, I hope this first part will help you a little more on the start of the pose, the layout of your room. Do not hesitate to bombard me with comments and questions, I will read everything, write everything down and answer everything in part two. And this time we will make a departure in a villa. I have given three methods of starting a pose, to outline his piece. We can go a little further and this is what we will see in the second part in the departure of the villa. Do not hesitate to share this video as much as possible for all people who have a tiling site and who wish to get started. Do not hesitate to bombard with thumbs like and I will tell you very soon for a new video.

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