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How to Tile a Backsplash Series: Tips on Tiling

Tom Meehan demonstrates his favorite tips, from cutting around switch plates and other profiles to using nippers and snap cutters.

By Tom Meehan

Watch a master tilesetter at work and it won’t be long before you start to learn valuable techniques that can be applied in a variety of situations. In this Build Like a Pro video you get to do just that.

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  1. bobbomax | | #1

    Tom mentions combing the thinset in parallel lines- that helps with uniformity and also gives the air under the tile an escape route so you get more uniform, complete coverage & don't have bubbles in the thinset.

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