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I am going to install tile in place of a sheet vinyl floor. The house currently hase wood base throughout (colonial style, I think) and in addition there is quarter round in the vinyl areas. I plan to remove & discard the quarter round. What do you normally do with the wood base? Do you remove & reinstall after the grout is complete?
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Hoping for more abuse, Ed returns! Here's a link to a thread sorta on the subject. I know there are more, but for your tile I'd say tile and grout to the base. With those Mexican paver type tiles you will have large variations from tile to tile, trying to scribe and fit a base to it would be a bitch. I'd leave a gap close to the same size you plan to leave between the tiles, a narrow grout line will look odd (my opinion, check with SWMBO though!) Joe H
< Obsolete Link > Dwain Cheeseman "baseboards with a new ceramic-tile floor" 4/2/01 5:46am
*Joe, hate to admit it, but that was what I had in mind. I just wanted to be sure I wasn't totally screwy.Sorry I asked the question...I should have checked previous posts first...I know how much that PO's some people and it was a little lazy on my part.
*Just a couple of words on the tile Ed; I wouldn't use a big grout line at the perimeter. With any tile job an expansion joint is required where the tile butts into any adjacent materials. This means you need to use good quality tile calk to match your grout. It is not uncommon for Mexican paver type tiles to have grout lines 5/8" or more. I would keep the perimeter expansion joint to no more than 5/16" unless you have a huge budget for calking. I have found that the stuff does not tool easily and if you get the joint bigger than the end of your index finger you are asking for BIG trouble.
*We had slate tiles installed in the mudroom, kitchen, and bathroom floors of our new home. I want to use some of the remaing tile for treads on exterior cement steps. Are ther any special precautions for using slate outdoors in this application? Can the tiles be set directly in the poured concrete steps or should I use thin set and grout? What about cleaning ice and snow from the slate -- will it hold up?
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I am going to install tile in place of a sheet vinyl floor. The house currently hase wood base throughout (colonial style, I think) and in addition there is quarter round in the vinyl areas. I plan to remove & discard the quarter round. What do you normally do with the wood base? Do you remove & reinstall after the grout is complete?