Large format tile installation requires particular attention to proper substrate preparation grout joint sizing trowel selection and mortar coverage.
Installing large tile on wall.
Check the laying substrate has no cracks it is homogeneous and mature totally clean and flat.
Begin your first drape on either right or left side and walk it up over and down the other side.
Use long sweeping motions to apply mortar to the wall and start placing your tiles in the marked locations.
So if the tiles are 10 inches high the line should be 10 25 inches off the floor.
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.
Obviously large format tiles are heavier than smaller tiles.
For proper installation floors and other horizontal surfaces need to be level and vertical.
Level floors plumb walls.
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.
Installing large format tile large format tiles must be supported properly.
Tiles one two three and four.
Repeat your second drape in the opposite direction.
Be sure to put spacers between each tile as you go.
When installing large format tile there must be at least 90 mortar contact and a minimum grout joint of 3 16.
Maximum deviation from flatness of 1mm per 2 meters length measured.