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Tiling Your Bathroom to Perfection

Nothing looks better than a well tiled bathroom and these days there are various types of options for bathroom tiling available to people.
With almost millions of patterns and textures, you can decorate your bathroom with the design of your choice.
To style your bathroom, you can either leave them for professionals who have expertise in these matters or you can pick up your own toolbox to renovate your bathroom.
Before you set out for designing your bathroom, you need to have tile cutters, tile saw, grout spreader, spirit levels, adhesives and tile cutting jigs.
Make sure that the walls and floors where you want to put your tiling are dry, clean and level.
For walls which are not level and flat, you need to remove the glitches by papering the walls followed by applying primer to prevent any future flaking of the walls.
Now with the help of rules, you need to chalk out the outline of your tiles to be put on the walls.
Now the tiles should be laid down side by side and then the times should be marked positions on the walls depending on the dimensions of your bathroom.
Next you must ensure that tiles you are about to fix to the wall are perfectly horizontal and this can be checked by your spirit level.
You can also take reference of your windowsill as the horizontal level to start tiling your bathroom.
After this process, the next important process that comes is applying the adhesive.
The adhesive should be kept free from contact of water and moisture and the tiles which are most likely to come in contact of too much water should also be applied carefully with the adhesive.
For perfect fixing of the tiles, the tile area should be completely applied with the adhesive before fixing the tiles.
Most adhesives come readily mixed and thus do not require to be further processed.
When the tiles are fitted in the walls, most tiles will come edge to edge while the others might not be right and they need to be cut to be aligned according to your bathroom.
For marking the excess of the tile, mark the tile with a felt tip pen and then use the tile cutter or tile saw to cut off the edge.
Be careful not to cut too much of the tile.
Then the tile should be fixed as previously instructed.
When all the fixing is done, leaks should be searched and putting should be applied to prevent them.
Bathroom tiling is one of the most effective ways of making your bathroom look grand.

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