How to Install Glazed Porcelain Tiles
- 1). Lay two intersecting lines over the floor with a snap line, dividing it into four quadrants. Set a carpenter’s square at the intersection as you snap the lines, adjust them as needed to make them exactly 90 degrees off each other.
- 2). Spread about four square feet of thin set over the floor with your notched trowel, in one of the four corners created by the intersection of the lines at the center of the floor.
- 3). Press the first glazed porcelain tile in place at the intersection of the lines. Set two spacers next to it, and set the second tile alongside it.
- 4). Repeat, setting additional tiles off the first ones, building out from the middle of the floor toward the edges in a grid pattern. Spread more thin set as needed. Put spacers between all the tiles as you lay them.
- 5). Cut tiles for the perimeter of the room on your tile cutter, scoring the tiles on the surface and pressing them with the prongs of the cutter until they snap in two. Lay the cut tiles with the cut sides facing the walls.
- 6). Let the tiles set for 12 hours. Pull out the spacers.
- 7). Spread grout over the glazed surface of the tiles with a grout float, pressing it into the lines between the tiles and scraping it off the face. Use a damp sponge to wipe up the excess grout. Let it set for 24 hours before walking on it.
