Ceramic floor tiles are certainly an excellent choice as a floor covering for kitchens, bathrooms and even conservatories, and nowadays you can even have 'warm' ceramic floor tiling with the advent of underfloor heating below your tiling.
If you're a DIY enthusiast tiling your floor with ceramic tiling needn't be quite as daunting as you would think.
It really is just a case of using the right tools and having the right method for floor tiling and of course a little practice goes a long way.
First and foremost we'll look at the tools you will need for your floor tiling project and then we can look at how to lay floor tiles in a bit of detail.
DIY floor tiling tools needn't be expensive and hopefully your investment in your tiling tools will pay great dividends in the saving you will make once you have tiled your own floor.
If you decide once you've had a go at floor tiling that you need the help of a professional tiler you can always use our free tilers quotes services to find and compare free quotes from local tilers.
No obligation of course. However, hopefully you're going to master DIY tiling with our guide on how to lay floor tiling.
Tools Needed For Laying Floor Tiles
You're going to need the following DIY tools to lay floor tiling.
- A tiling grout spreader
- A tile cutter - a manual tile cutter will do initially until you advance to electric tile cutters.
- Floor tiling adhesive - check the manufacturers specification on your floor tiling adhesive to ensure that you've bought the right kind of floor tiling adhesive for the kind of tiles you want to lay.
- You will find that there are many types of floor tiling adhesive, which vary according to the materials you will be working with and also the surface that you will be laying your floor tiles onto.
