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Self-Leveling Underlayment: The Ultimate Guide

July 7, 2020 by DIYTileGuy 62 Comments

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Self-leveling underlayment. It sounds soooooo easy, doesn't it? You simply pour the leveling cement over the floor and the product then just levels itself all on its own. Sort of like...magic, right? This post contains affiliate links. The site owner may earn a commission should you click … [Read more...] about Self-Leveling Underlayment: The Ultimate Guide

Filed Under: Installation, Tutorial Tagged With: ardex, ardex feather finish, custom building products, floors, liquid backer board, mapei, planipatch, schonox, self leveling, tec specialty, tools, uzin

How to Cut Glass Tile- 7 Tips Revealed- video

January 16, 2018 by DIYTileGuy 23 Comments

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Cutting glass tile can be a challenge. Yes, more of a challenge than cutting regular old ceramic tile. Additionally, the average DIY'er may not have the right equipment and may not know the tricks for how to cut glass tile. Tip #5: Score the back first This post contains affiliate links. The site … [Read more...] about How to Cut Glass Tile- 7 Tips Revealed- video

Filed Under: DIY, Installation, Tips & Tricks, Tutorial, Video Tagged With: cutting tile, diamond blade, featured, glass tile, how-to, tile saw

Installing Electric Floor Heat: How to Not Void Your Warranty

March 28, 2017 by DIYTileGuy 7 Comments

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Installing Electric Floor Heat: The First Step "How do you know it works?" I've been asked this by more than one homeowner when installing their electric floor heat system. It's a good question. This post contains affiliate links. The site owner may earn a commission should you click on an … [Read more...] about Installing Electric Floor Heat: How to Not Void Your Warranty

Filed Under: Installation, Tutorial Tagged With: ditra heat, featured, NuHeat, Suntouch, Warmly Yours

Sealing the tub flange for tile

March 14, 2017 by DIYTileGuy 134 Comments

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That pesky tub flange. You have the tile backerboard installed and everything is waterproofed. Everything except that gap between the backerboard and the tub flange. How do you waterproof that? What to do with the tub flange? To begin with you can try reading the instructions for the … [Read more...] about Sealing the tub flange for tile

Filed Under: Installation, Tips & Tricks, Tutorial, Waterproofing Tagged With: cement board, featured, hardiebacker, waterproofing

Building a Custom Shower Niche from Scratch

February 28, 2017 by DIYTileGuy 58 Comments

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The Ultimate Guide to Building a Preformed Custom Recessed Shower Niche Part 4:  Building a Custom Shower Niche from Scratch This post covers: Cement board, foam board, and Hardibacker Cutting into wall framing  Waterproofing LOTS of photos! Sometimes there's no good way around it. Building your … [Read more...] about Building a Custom Shower Niche from Scratch

Filed Under: Installation, Niches, Tips & Tricks, Tutorial, Waterproofing Tagged With: aquadefense, cement board, featured, fiber cement board, hardiebacker, hydroban, kerdi, kerdi board, niche, redgard, Sheet Membranes, valueseal, waterproofing, wedi

Tired of Bullnose Tile Trim? Here are 5 Tile Edge Trim Alternatives

January 17, 2017 by DIYTileGuy 67 Comments

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Here are 5 alternatives to the classic and common bullnose tile edge trim. One of the mistakes that I see a lot of homeowners and DIYers make with tile installations is that they sometimes don't use any tile trim on the exposed tile edges. Many times they think the edge of the tile looks OK or they … [Read more...] about Tired of Bullnose Tile Trim? Here are 5 Tile Edge Trim Alternatives

Filed Under: Installation Tagged With: bullnose, featured, glass tile, schluter, tile profiles, tile trim

How to Modify your Recessed Foam Shower Niche

January 3, 2017 by DIYTileGuy Leave a Comment

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The Ultimate Guide to Building a Preformed Recessed Shower Niche Part 3: How to Modify your Recessed Foam Shower Niche In this post we cover: Situations where you would consider modifications A technique to check if your foam niche is still waterproof Method and tools to customize a foam … [Read more...] about How to Modify your Recessed Foam Shower Niche

Filed Under: Installation, Niches, Tips & Tricks, Tutorial, Waterproofing Tagged With: hydroban, laticrete, niche, noble

How to Build a Recessed Shampoo Shelf

December 20, 2016 by DIYTileGuy 3 Comments

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The Ultimate Guide to Building a Preformed Recessed Shower Niche Part 2 Building, Installing, and Tiling a Recessed Shampoo Shelf In this post we discuss: How to cut an inset niche into the wall What tools to use to build the recessed shampoo shelf Blocking (framing) for a recessed niche How to … [Read more...] about How to Build a Recessed Shampoo Shelf

Filed Under: DIY, Installation, Niches, Products, Tutorial Tagged With: bullnose, featured, laticrete, niche, noble, tools

How to Design a Preformed Foam Recessed Shower Niche

December 6, 2016 by DIYTileGuy 13 Comments

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The Ultimate Guide to Building a Preformed Recessed Shower Niche Part 1: Planning and Layout In this post we discuss: What types of prefab recessed shower niches are out there Which preformed shampoo niches are best Shower niche design ideas Why you should plan for a shower insert before you … [Read more...] about How to Design a Preformed Foam Recessed Shower Niche

Filed Under: Installation, Niches, Tutorial, Waterproofing Tagged With: bullnose, laticrete, Layout, niche, Noble Company, schluter

Ditra Heat Mat Installation: Ignore these two rules

August 23, 2016 by DIYTileGuy 156 Comments

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Typically I encourage people to follow the manufacturer's instructions. Especially when the company has clear, detailed, and easy to understand instructions. But when it comes to both Ditra Heat and Ditra Heat TB [edit: now called Ditra-Heat Duo] there are two things that I just don't feel are good … [Read more...] about Ditra Heat Mat Installation: Ignore these two rules

Filed Under: DIY, Installation, Products Tagged With: ditra, ditra heat, schluter, uncoupling, uncoupling membrane

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