I’m afraid of saws so my dad stepped in and helped me out with this step, though I screamed in my head the whole time in fear he would lose a finger. In this collage, I show the original flooring, the subfloor, and then the newly installed vinyl tile.Īnd the final step was trimming and nailing down the carpet transition strip. Next was caulking the edges along the tub, toilet, and sink.
Tada! All the tile has been placed in this photo! But we still had a few steps to go. Make sure you have a good base flooring (no excessive water damage to your plywood floors). Two tips I discovered in the process: vinyl tile can more easily and quickly be cut with regular scissors than with a utility knife, and paper can be used to make a template for cutting tiles around the toilet bowl. Prep your space by ripping up the carpet, taking all the tack strips out and making sure there aren’t any staples or nails that are sticking up. You would need to buy a new wax ring or two to put your toilet back in place and I would run a bead of clear bathroom caulking around the bottom of the toilet once you have. If theres a small gap between the tile and the toilet, fill in the entire gap with caulk. I would consider removing the toilet and vanity before tiling. Run a bead of silicon caulk along the base of the toilet where it meets the tile. Then the hardest part began- the measuring and cutting of the tiles around the walls and toilet. The boxes of peel and stick tile usually have good installation instructions so read EVERYTHING carefully. Once I found the sweet spot for the tile in the middle of the room, I started peeling and sticking all of the tiles that would not need to be cut, being careful to ensure that they were placed straight, smooth, and without cracks between them.
I wanted the tiles to be left as big as possible with no tiny tile edging. I then found the middle of the room and started playing with tile placement, paying particular attention to how small the tiles would need to be cut along the walls in the room. Whether you’re installing vinyl composition tiles (VCT) or peel-and-stick vinyl. There were 6 different designs on all of our marbly tiles and I wanted to ensure they were random throughout the floor when I stuck them down. There are many types of odd-shaped appliances and obstacles to tile around while installing a vinyl tile floor. This is so the grout can better stick to the edges of the tile and enough of the product gets down in between the tile to give it some strength. Once the subfloor was prepped, I opened all of the boxes of tiles and sorted them by design. But now you can buy a peel-and-stick vinyl tile product that you can put grout in between in order to make it look like real tile, without the expense. This is the sequel to my post on removing linoleum here: Removing old linoleum flooring
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