Help with skirting tile installation! Novice at this!

[berniesmyth]

We are tiling a single wall with brick metro tiles and plan to install skirting tiles above wooden floor boards. Have a few questions:

- Which first? wall tiles or skirting tiles?
- do i need to leave a gap between the floorboards and skirting tiles and if so how do you do this?
- Do you need a different adhesive for skirting tiles compared to wall tile adhesive?

- any other advice re. the best way to apply metro tiles in a brick pattern?

This is our first attempt at any tiling whatsoever and i suspect we are making things complicated for ourselves! :-))! Any help appreciated :-)

[suave]

wselcome!

[suave]

welcome even lol

[whitebeam]

Hi and welcome..

What is going on the floorboards and what room are you talking about

[berniesmyth]

It's a bathroom and we are having exposed floorboards that will be painted - we're going for the traditional victorian look.

[whitebeam]

Start with the wall tiles, make sure they are flat for a brick bond pattern other wise you will have lipping occuring..

What are your walls constructed of, plaster etc..I take it your tiles are ceramic.

The skirting tiles I would put on after the wall tiles but use a single part flexible powdered adhesive...leave a small gap under the skirting to the floorboards...when you finally get to painting the floor then run a silicone bead to the bottom of the skirting tile.