wall tiling across a doorway - TilersForums.com

[chippy1970]

Hi all just wondering how you guys go about tiling a wall with a door in it.

Options I can batten then tile up the right side then once above the door way i can then run a row of tiles on a batten across to the left. Then I would have to tile back down the left side of the door way.

Reason for the above was that id guess if I tiled up both sides at the same time its highly unlikely to line up or do you pros do that and just keep working to a laser line.

cheers

 

[Old Mod]

Just fix a baton below the first full tile across the door, sure you’ll have to step over it, but it’ll keep your levels true.
And once you’re happy it’s level across the door, then just cut out the door piece 😊
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Personally I always leave over the door til the very last thing I do, if there’s any kind of drift in levels, as long as it’s one piece over the door, you can hide the change in levels. 😁

 

[chippy1970]

Yeah I did think I could probably lose any difference over the door . I can't run a batten right across unless I do it from the 3 or 4 row. There's a bath on the left of the door and the right starts from the floor

 

[Tony_C]

I do as @3_fall says about leaving it to last, depending on the tile size I also try not run a grout line across the top so any difference never meets anyway.

I rarely baton things but I just do as you said with the laser or a level and go up either side, I never tile down
You may need to tweak a grout line with a sideways spacer to help things along. When I'm up over the door I draw a line with my level where the groutlines should meet over the door and cut the tiles over the frame to suit that line. Hope that makes sense?

 

[Old Mod]

Hope that makes sense?

Not a word. 🤣

Tile up the right side to one full tile above the bath, set your laser to the top of this tile on the right.
Take a whole tile and on the left side above the bath place the tile on the wall so that the laser is is in the same place as it is on the right.
Mark underneath the tile in the left, and place a baton along this line above the bath, you’ll be more than close enough over the door.
Or do what I do, and just use one tile floor to ceiling, you can’t go wrong then. 😊

 

[Tony_C]

Not a word. 🤣

Huh? 🤷‍♂️

 

[chippy1970]

Cheers lads , pretty much along the lines I was thinking.

You saying about one tile all the way, a mate of mine just had some tiles delivered on a job he's on and they look like 8 X 4s lol bloody huge things. Good luck to whoever's fitting them.

 

[Old Mod]

they look like 8 X 4s lol bloody huge things.

What like these?

These are 3.2m x 1.6m x 6mm

 

[Unused Account 1]

What i do sometimes around a door is measure with spacers,how many tiles above the door,put your batten on the bottom ,then you can puta batten up one side to top of the door,cut a piece of batten the length of the tiles above the door ,then put a batten the other side ofthe door,basically frame it