- Location
- Grantsville, Utah
So which knee pads should I order?
I think my brother has a tile snapper. It's basically like cutting glass. I've got lots of experience with that.Since your biggest pieces are 18", you really should borrow my tile snapper. It will do all your cuts except notches and plunges. And I can lend you a diamond blade for a grinder too, for those.
I know you have a nice wet saw. But my one time doing tile, anytime I could use the snapper instead of the saw was pleasure vs. pain. Just so much faster and easier (and cleaner). The downside to snapping, is the cut edge looks less like a full tile edge than a sawn cut edge does. But almost all your cuts are going to be hidden by baseboard anyway. And, yes, the edge looks different, but, once it's installed and grouted, nobody, like absolutely nobody, is ever going to to notice the difference.
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I think my brother has a tile snapper. It's basically like cutting glass. I've got lots of experience with that.
I'm leaning towards the ditra mat, but it looks like it's $85 for 54 sq/ft. Is that right? That's gonna be like $2,200 in underlayment. Do you screw it down? Where's the best place to buy it?
I'm at Floor and Decor now. THERE'S NO ****ING BAR HERE! 😢My experience this year has been that it is even more so now since Floor & Decor opened up the big store on 5th W and 17th S. There are not that many other places out there with any kind of variety to select from.
Sweet! I needs to tie into that line for a garage heater anyway. 😂Just a word of precaution, as my parents learned the hard way when they paid someone to do flooring work. Watch out for tubing ran under the flooring when you're nailing down your backing. Their home ended up with a natural gas line getting punctured by the contractor!
Take the screws back and use a roofing nailer, you'll thank me after trying to screw down one sheet.Well we're committed to hardibacker now. They didn't have enough of the ditra in stock.
We bought a tile snapper and have a great tile wet saw. We also bought a bunch of other crap. A mixing drill, a diamond blade for the 4.5" grinder, and 97 sheets of hardibacker with screws. Got the grout, got some mortar (I think we need more).
I delegated all of the screwing to my wife.Take the screws back and use a roofing nailer, you'll thank me after trying to screw down one sheet.