What is the easiest method to install peel n stick tile?

Question

It is a odd shaped kitchen, and i am not sure where to begin.

Answer 1

All who state center are pretty much on target. More important however is finding the square of the area. Your thought should be two perpendicular lines crossing each other, and not just because of some measured or assumed center. Once you decide on some arbitrary or real center it should meet at the crossing of those perpendicular lines.

The issue extends also to measuring and determining some balance in where your cuts are. Example: Cut pieces should seem to be pretty nearly all the same size in the pieces at the room perimeter, other than angled cuts of course. Symmetry might seem like a minor detail, until one Looks at a floor noticing that maybe they could have shifted center by an inch or two. Example: Assume the tiles are 1 sq. ft. but the area where most full sheets will be seen is 9 1/2 ft. That equates to being pretty close in centering to allow that on either visible side you come as close to 6 inch pieces as possible. Apply that principle in any more odd/different measurement.

Another thing this may accomplish is less waste. You might find that by laying out a course of tiles in two directions first, will give you a sense of what cut sizes will be, and even find that you can get two decent cut pieces from one whole.

Obviously angles may not allow that.

This is my opinion only, and I've installed multiple thousands of sq. ft. of all types of flooring. With all due respect I would use sheet stock rather than peel and stick, BUT... If that's your choice, and depending on the substrate you're installing over...If I was Doing the job, I buy a couple gallons of water based contact cement, work in small areas at a time, apply the cement to both the tile back and the sub floor, allow drying, then stick down.

Steven Wolf

Answer 2

You start in the middle of the floor and work outward. I laid all my tile down and look at it to make sure it was alright, then I went back to the one in the middle and started to peel, It worked great, and look good.

Answer 3

Start from the center and work your way out. the center needs to look the best, that is where you focus
Can you imagine if you start on the edge and end up with a tiny piece of flooring right in the middle of your floor?

Answer 4

Peel tile. Stick tile.

Answer 5

lots of good advice here already,however,if you are using peel and stick you should buy the floor primer they sell for it,if not,don't count on it staying down too long,and it can even shift and move without the primer

Answer 6

to start off make sure the floor is level and fully clean .then you have to find the center of the room after ou do that snap a chaulk line and start from there