A bit of advice please.

[Miss.P]

Hi Everyone ,

I am about to tile the walls (halfway) and floor in the downstairs toilet, it is a small room about 2m x 1m.

I have bought my tiles from Porcelanosa, for the walls eidos nacar (the ceramic mosaic wall tile) and for the floor marmi blanco.

I have used a laser level and found that the floor slopes downwards (away from the door) and the door frame is not straight. So if I tile my walls so that they are level, there will be a small gap at the furthest point of the room and a small gap where the tiles end halfway up the wall at the doorframe.

Is it best to tile the floor first and make that level or walls first?

Also I want the mosaic tiles to have full squares at the bottom.

All advice would be much appreciated (Ive never tiled before!)

[whitebeam]

Would you not want a tiler to give you a price to do the work

[garythetiler]

level the floor with laytex before tiling ,remove acrchitrave before tiling ,then refit agaisnt your work once finished this will then be in alignment

[diamondtiling]

Full mosaics

at the bottom require a truly flat 90 degree finish, this will be virtually impossible unless you prep the walls first, you are asking the tiler or yourself to start at the bottom and hope that all the cuts work out, its the wrong way to start a job, especially mosaics. A cut tile at the bottom will have a silicone line to cover the small gap.
What size mosaic are you using??

[brian c]

not a job for the inexperienced.

[Miss.P]

Thanks for the input guys.

I have properly measured the floor and it dips about 2mm in the middle of the edge, so hopefully that shouldnt be a problem.

The mosaics are are on a tile (200x 316) not a mesh backing.

So...

1. Do I tile the floor first, then the walls up from the floor?

2. Or do i put a batten 1 tile high, tile the walls, then the floor and hopefully squeeze the last row of full tiles in?

3. Or do I tile the walls allowing a gap at the bottom big enough for the floor tile to fit in?

4. None of the above...

[beanz]

I personally would tile the floor first.

With the greatest respect, all the prep in the world will not give you 100% straight edges with 90° angles, so i'd be looking at cuts around the edges, rather than starting with full tiles (I don't know the tiles you are refering to, so can't really picture them). I think you might be taking on more than you can handle, and would get a pro in, but that's a call only you can make really.