How To Install Tile On A Wall Against Floor Molding

Set cap molding atop baseboard trim placing it flush against the wall.

How to install tile on a wall against floor molding.

This is my opinion on how you should grout. When you lay wall molding such as baseboard trim against a wall and see gaps between the top of the wall trim and the drywall it s usually because of a misaligned stud or a built up ridge of taping compound over a joint. You need the right sized base to be able to get away with that though as you ll lose some of the baseboard s height by covering it with tile and the addition of shoe molding can then make the base that you have look too squat. Finally the hardwood was installed by scribing each individual board against the tile.

Make sure you push it in the grout lines enough to where you see it oozing out. Now i usually tile bathroom floors but i have tiled a few rooms that have had a entry way into another room without a door and it s impossible to match the new base with the old. Wall trim is similar use it where you want a full size tile and don t need a special edge treatment. Butt one edge against the wall and use its back edge as a guide to mark the tile underneath.

We are assuming the procedure here involved installing the ceramic tile first then a metal insert or schluter strip was added to separate both tile and wood. Place another full size tile on top of the tile to be cut. Many bathrooms and pool house designs call for ceramic tile on the floor and walls or a tile wainscot. How to install wood baseboard molding on ceramic tile.

This makes it dry to the thin set. But if you put new base after the tile is set it makes the entire floor to ceiling look cleaner. Any diyer with moderate skills can install a wood molding transition between tile and hardwood floors giving a stylish finish between the two materials. For a more traditional look add cap molding to the top of the baseboards.

Use the same technique to install the cap molding as you would with the shoe molding. To fit against straight walls. Also if you tile up against old base molding it looks ookkaayy. Lay the full size tile to be cut on top of the nearest full tile in the field.

I have seen people tile 1 4 to 1 2 shy of the already installed baseboard then cover the transition with shoe molding. With some the design may include. Line up the front edge with the field tile s exposed edge. Both will create bulges that cause gaps around floor trim.