Tools & Accessories List For Porcelain & Ceramic Tile
We present you a list with the items you will need to get your tiling job done right.
- Measuring tape: You need this to calculate everything carefully.
- Mastic: This latex adhesive is designed for interior installations.
- Chalk line: This tool is used in order to set the grout lines in place during the layout stage.
- Notched trowel: Is used for applying thin-set or mastic adhesive to the wall or floor.
- Tile cutter: A specific tool specialized on small cuts for the times when a wet saw is not needed.
- Wet saw: Can be used to cut tile accurately and cleanly to fit around edges, corners and fixtures.
- Grout: Is used for filling powder formed in premixed colors to fill the joints between tiles. Non-sanded grout is used on polished tile or tile installations with a butt-joint that is less than 1/8 inch. Sanded grout is used on larger tiles.
- Grout float: This is used to spread grout into the joints between tiles.
- Thin-set: An adhesive mortar made of cement, fine sand and a water retaining agent which is used to attach tiles to the underflooring.
- Caulk: Used in shower or other wet-room tile installations to seal the tiles from moisture.
- Sponge: Used to wipe up excess grout.
- Painter’s tape: Used to helps the edges of pieces of tile from fracturing or shattering off during the cutting process.
- Self-leveling cement: Levels a floor or smooths walls to fill any gaps or depressions.
- Tile wedges and spacers: Used to space wall or floor tiles accurately before grout is added.
- Cement-fiber backer board: One of the most common mounts for wall tiles. Acts like a cement underflooring, except for use only on walls.