Tiling With Unlevel Walls

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Tiling with unlevel walls.

Back buttering is a trick used for tiles of uneven thickness like ungauged slate or handmade tiles extremely large tiles or for tiles being installed on an uneven surface. There are numerous ways to make a bumpy uneven or unlevel surface ready for tiling. Plastering backer boards and self levelling compound are all great options. It simply involves applying mortar as normal to the substrate but then also applying mortar to the back of the tiles.

If you put a 48 straight edge up against the most sunken areas there s a gap of almost a 1 2. The area of the wall to be tiled minus the area of the window is 37 square feet. The problem is that the wall is uneven. Back buttering is a common solution to tiling uneven walls and floors or using tiles of varying thicknesses.

Extra mortar is applied to areas that need it either areas with dips in or areas with thinner tiles. Short answer to how to prepare an uneven wall or floor for tiling. Here is an easy way to set your 1st row and the rest going up your wall then lastly the first row is set.