Be sure to put spacers between each tile as you go.
Installing large tile on wall.
Maximum deviation from flatness of 1mm per 2 meters length measured.
Tiles one two three and four.
Mark a horizontal line along the bottom of the wall coming up from the floor by the height of your tile plus one quarter inch.
Large format tile must be installed on a level substrate.
Installing large format tile large format tiles must be supported properly.
The recommended adhesive is c2te s1 and it must be spread over in one direction only.
Obviously large format tiles are heavier than smaller tiles.
Check the laying substrate has no cracks it is homogeneous and mature totally clean and flat.
Use long sweeping motions to apply mortar to the wall and start placing your tiles in the marked locations.
Begin your first drape on either right or left side and walk it up over and down the other side.
When installing large format tile there must be at least 90 mortar contact and a minimum grout joint of 3 16.
Level floors plumb walls.
To install ceramic wall tile use a level and measuring tape to mark the tile locations on the wall with chalk.
Large format tile installation requires particular attention to proper substrate preparation grout joint sizing trowel selection and mortar coverage.
For proper installation floors and other horizontal surfaces need to be level and vertical.
So if the tiles are 10 inches high the line should be 10 25 inches off the floor.