Floor Tile Setting With The Front Door

You ll end up with a better looking floor.

Floor tile setting with the front door.

I understand that to lay ceramic tile properly i need to put down durarock or hardibacker board prior to the tile but then i won t be able to open the door. Professional tile installers trim the bottom of the door casings to allow the tile to tuck underneath which produces the best result. Dear nh i want to install tile inside the front door of my house. When the tile installer came to look at the job he said that i couldn t install tile because the bottom of the door would hit the tile after he installed some new plywood and the tile.

Slide tile under door casings. For tiles that are 12 inches by 12 inches or larger it s a good idea to back butter or flat coat the backs of the tiles with thinset prior to setting the tiles. Comb the thinset with the notched end of the trowel then set the tile onto the thinset. When going from one room to another especially from tile to another type of flooring use transition strips to cover the flooring seams.

If you butt the tiles against the casings photo 1 you ll usually end up with uneven gaps that you have to fill with grout. Apply a 1 4 inch thick layer of pre mixed thinset or mastic over the area where the first tile will be laid. Most people don t have tile all over their house from the front door all the way through. So the same general rule that applies to laying wood tile can t be applied when laying tile.

Installing tile around door jambs can prove to be difficult. I have an ugly square of linoleum there now. My front door threshold bottom of door is only 1 2 above the floor.