Ceramic Tile Thinset Coverage

For natural stone that number is 95 to 100.

Ceramic tile thinset coverage.

Butter the back of each ceramic tile with a skim coat before placing the tile. 4 inch 12 inch tile. Ft less than 99 12 99 199 4 399 and greater 11 flooring material features. Versabond cures quickly even in cold climates and adheres to most surfaces.

This helps to prevent tiles from cracking. White premium thin set mortar model gtmw7 4 15 87 15 87. These steps for applying grout will improve your tiles placement and appearance. Trowel size based on largest dimension coverage based on 50lbs bag mesh mosaics.

Custom building products glass tile 7 lb. Mapei recommends adding 5 to 10 in overage to ensure that your entire project is covered. One supplier s quote is for 70 50lb bags of ditra set thin set and medium bed mortar and 10 50lb bags 253 gold multipurpose white thin set mortar. Gray thinset mortar is typically used with ceramic and porcelain floor tiles.

Certain types of tile carry their own coverage recommendations as well. Coverage shall be sufficiently distributed to give support of the tile especially at corners and edges. Subtotal 1 386 90 ship price residential delivery 497 00 total 1 883 90. White thinset mortar is used with natural stone materials and glass tiles.

Thinset grout coverage info. Hold the tile in your hand and scrape the trowel over the surface to deposit and smooth a thin layer of grout. Thinset with small amounts of latex added are primarily used for large format tiles and stone tiles to help absorb flex from floors and walls. Second quote is for 70 10 50lb bags but the product difference is for.

For example a 10 by 12 foot room is 120 square feet. Maximum coverage area sq. 90 100 sq ft. All fields below are required.

A 120 square foot room with 16 inch tiles will take a minimum of three bags of thinset. Enter your measurement as a decimal 1 5 or a fraction 1 1 2. Per ansi a108 19 for gauged porcelain tiles or gauged porcelain tile panels slabs installed on floors in any single square foot under the embedded tile thin set coverage will be a minimum of 85. And as a general rule err on the side of greater coverage especially when you re dealing with large floor tile.

4 inch 12 inch tile. Custom building products versabond 50 lbs. Divide the square footage of your project by 95 the maximum coverage of a 50 pound bag of thinset. 75 85 sq ft.

12 inch 16 inch tile. Glass tile always requires 100. Fortified thin set mortar is a professional formula all purpose mortar polymer modified to provide good bond strength for floor and tile projects.