Tiling With Unlevel Walls

Extra mortar is applied to areas that need it either areas with dips in or areas with thinner tiles.

Tiling with unlevel walls.

Here is an easy way to set your 1st row and the rest going up your wall then lastly the first row is set. Short answer to how to prepare an uneven wall or floor for tiling. There are numerous ways to make a bumpy uneven or unlevel surface ready for tiling. Believe it or not there are more uneven walls and floors than there are even ones.

The problem is that the wall is uneven. It simply involves applying mortar as normal to the substrate but then also applying mortar to the back of the tiles. If you put a 48 straight edge up against the most sunken areas there s a gap of almost a 1 2. The mortar is spread.

Back buttering is a trick used for tiles of uneven thickness like ungauged slate or handmade tiles extremely large tiles or for tiles being installed on an uneven surface. I explain why this method works soooo easy. Things you will need measuring tape tile wet saw leveling spacers and wedges trowel thinset mortar rubber mallet grout grout float grout sponge.