Hi yes this guy know what to do. With water he is right you suppose to use mineral water for grout. In USA nobody used that and a lot of people don’t know about it. I always use wet saw because I am doing shower walls and floor so nonsense to have tile cuter and the best cuts are from wet saw period. Yes always try to do mortar close to grout color . You can mix white and grey to make between. I only use grinder for toilet holes and polishing the edges.
Many years ago I would only use distilled water when grouting. Definitely prevents efflorescence and keeps color uniform. However, that was with basic polyblend cement grout. If you use a grout like prism or mapei fa it's not necessary.
When you get into the larger clips like the ones he shows, they are pretty much all the same... I usually go for the cheaper ones because they are still about 35 to $40 a bag
You can subway 1/3 off set. You don't need to stair step it. This guy in the video doing a 1/2 subway is most likely using rectified porcelain. Higher qualility tile allows the 50% split. But the cheap stuff that says on the box to only stagger 33% max- trust them. They know their product is warped.
Even with cheaper low-end tile that obviously has a bow in it I can still make it work with leveling clips staggered in half... it's extremely rare that my customers want it staggered at 3rds, aka stair step
You have to check the tile. If the tile isn't bowed, then you're good to go. Just did a job 50/50, and the box stated no more than 1/3. Not a single tile had a bow. It was a good quality tile which helped.
I like this guy better than the other one, he gets to the point in a way ppl can understand.
Not only that, he gives factual info
You're right, this guy knows what he's talking about, but never heard of bottled water being used to mix grout
As someone else said in comments, the water thing was more important using the old style sanded grouts, but not today's grouts
Hi yes this guy know what to do.
With water he is right you suppose to use mineral water for grout. In USA nobody used that and a lot of people don’t know about it.
I always use wet saw because I am doing shower walls and floor so nonsense to have tile cuter and the best cuts are from wet saw period. Yes always try to do mortar close to grout color . You can mix white and grey to make between.
I only use grinder for toilet holes and polishing the edges.
Many years ago I would only use distilled water when grouting. Definitely prevents efflorescence and keeps color uniform. However, that was with basic polyblend cement grout. If you use a grout like prism or mapei fa it's not necessary.
Yes I could see that, but back then I was using a grout additive that smelled like ammonia... I never would have thought of distilled water
@StarrTile I know exactly what you're talking about. I would use that for mixing grout and distilled water for my rinse/wipe bucket.
What’s the best leveling clips system in your opinion?
When you get into the larger clips like the ones he shows, they are pretty much all the same... I usually go for the cheaper ones because they are still about 35 to $40 a bag
use a wetsaw. use a wetrsaw. use a wetsaw
Wet sawing every cut is hell on earth.
But she's tighter than nun snapper wet one at that 😂😂
I use my DeWalt wet saw pretty much on every job, although my manual cutter is always right next to it
You can subway 1/3 off set. You don't need to stair step it. This guy in the video doing a 1/2 subway is most likely using rectified porcelain. Higher qualility tile allows the 50% split. But the cheap stuff that says on the box to only stagger 33% max- trust them. They know their product is warped.
It depends on the width/length ratio of the tile as well, a long skinny tile may look better in 1/3rds vs halves
Even with cheaper low-end tile that obviously has a bow in it I can still make it work with leveling clips staggered in half... it's extremely rare that my customers want it staggered at 3rds, aka stair step
You have to check the tile. If the tile isn't bowed, then you're good to go. Just did a job 50/50, and the box stated no more than 1/3. Not a single tile had a bow. It was a good quality tile which helped.