How to Measure Toilet Tile Cuts
- 1). Remove the toilet. With your chalk snapline, divide the entire bathroom floor into four sections, with two intersecting lines running across the floor from the middle of each span of wall.
- 2). Lay your tiles from the intersection of the lines, spreading down thinset mortar with a notched trowel and pressing the tiles into place alongside the lines. Build out across the floor. At the toilet drain, install your full tiles around the drain as close as you can without touching it, giving it a square perimeter. Let the tiles set overnight.
- 3). Without mortar, set full tiles within the square perimeter of tiles you built around the toilet drain. Set them down as if there's no drain there, so they cover it. Keep the tiles spaced consistently with the others, so you can see the curve of the drain in the spaces between the tiles.
- 4). With your pencil, trace the curves of the toilet drain onto to tops of the tiles, but make the marks about 1/4 inch outside the actual curve.
- 5). Remove your tiles from the floor, and cut out the curves on your rod-style tile saw. Set the tiles in mortar around the toilet drain.
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