Our contractor s tile person finished putting our shower tile up today and one wall of tile is hanging over the edge of the drywall seen from the back in the second photo.
How to tile a wall that is not square.
In a perfect world you would lay your tiles square with all four walls in a room but not all rooms are square and that can leave you wondering where.
But obviously it s still not even close to being square.
Then if each box of tile has 10 square feet 0 93 m 2 of tile divide 120 by 10 to find that you need 12 boxes to cover the wall exactly.
Then you should add an additional box to account for potentially damaged tiles.
Continue doing this until you get to the wall.
He says this is because the walls are not square and that more drywall needs to be added to make it flush.
This happens to be the side of the bathroom where a tiled shower will be and since we re using 2 x2 floor tiles i m concerned about how this is going to look with that much of a running angled gap on that side.
The last thing i want are little angled tile pieces running along that side.
How to square a room for tile installation.
You will then need to make cuts on the tiles so that they will fit in place.
Take a second tile and then place it directly next to the first tile using the spacers as a guide.