Laying tile?

Question

What is the finish height of tile after grout and tile??? For example if I were to lay tile how much would it bring up the floor?? 1half inch???

Answer 1

I answered a similar question to this a couple of weeks ago. I just put in approximately 300 sq feet of ceramic tile in new construction. Using 5/16" cement board screwed to sub floor. The finished height is approximately 3/4". This includes the cement board, thinset mortar and tile. There are multiple ways of increasing the thickness, like put layer of thinset down before installing cement board (adds approx 1/8") or use multiple layers of cement board you can get it from 1/4" to 3/4". Use more or less thin set under tile. Best to measure the thickness of tile and cement backer board. Then add in 1/8 to 1/4 inch for thin set to get approx thickness.

Answer 2

It depends where you're starting from... you should put a mesh and scratch coat down first... this could add up to 1/4" depending on how thick you lay the mortar in to level out the imperfections in the floor... then the tile should sit on that with a notched trowel application of the set mortar... so another 1/16" or so... then the thickness of the tile on top of that.... the grout isn't higher so...

Hope this helps with the calculation...

Answer 3

Depends on the thickness of your tile. Thinset is usually installed using a 1/4"x1/4"x1/4" notched trowel which translates to about 1/8" after tile are set on average. The average floor tile is about 3/8" which combined comes to 1/2" total thickness of product. Hope that helps.

Answer 4

you have to take into consideration the underlayment such as Durock Cement board. it is 1/2" or 5/8".

then add 1/4 inch for the Thinset and then add the depth of your tile.