Biondanonima zone 7a hudson valley 11 months ago.
Tiling on wall with differnt thickness.
For example use a to represent border tiles that are 1 2 inch thick and b to represent the main floor tiles that are 1 4 inch.
Spread the thin set mortar with a notched trowel to a small area that will allow you to install only a handful.
What is the best way to transition between them.
Use a code system to indicate the different thickness of tiles.
Lay out the tiles to set up a dry run to get a better picture of where certain tiles will go.
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.
Combine that with the fact that larger tiles need more thinset which will give them even more height and you could have a height difference of almost 1 4.
When installing two tiles from two different suppliers often the thickness of each tile is not the same.
When you re finished you should have two different tiles with different thicknesses installed flush on the same plane.
It happens all the time.
This allows you to.
I am considering using two different tiles for my bathroom remodel a patterned tile for the shower walls and subways for the wainscot which are of two different thicknesses.
You can cut your main field tile with spaces large enough for your insert don t forget the measurement for the grout line around the mosaics.
How to lay tiles that are different thicknesses step 1.