How Do You Strip And Tile A Concrete Kitchen Floor?
Why pay hundreds to tile a floor when you can do it yourself? Though not difficult to figure out, tiling a floor is labor intensive work. But with a little muscle and determination you can take your floor to new heights- from drab to fab! If you have linoleum on your floor strip it away. It is preferable to rent a power floor stripper since stripping a linoleum floor by hand is difficult and time consuming. Prep the concrete floor thoroughly sweeping away particles and removing residual adhesive. Measure length and width of your floor and using carpenter’s chalk line mark a cross on the floor with the center of cross being the center point of your kitchen. Begin at the center of the room placing your first tile immediately to the right or left of the cross but not directly on the cross. Using a notched trowel spread a layer of mortar making sure it’s not too thin but not too thick. Follow along the traced lines when placing each tile. Make sure you place spacers (sold at local hardware
