Compare thicknesses and the clearance for your project when choosing tiles.
Finished tile floor thickness.
Most man made tiles are around 1 4 to 3 8 inch thick.
Natural stone tiles on the other hand are much more difficult to work.
You can also get special thin body porcelain tile for areas where you don t want to add a lot of depth.
Say i had 2mm grout either side of my top tile to the edging that would leave a 106mm gap.
4 1 6 92 6 6 1 4 120mm the finished thickness of my threshold.
My 2x4 timber framing comes up at 92mm wide.
This assumes you re using a 1 4 x1 4 square notch trowel.
Porcelain tile thickness is similar to ceramic tile with some porcelain tile options available slightly thicker.
On the shower side of the threshold the tile underlay will have a 6mm batten underneath.
This usually doesn t create a problem unless you re installing tile over an existing floor and the new height restricts the opening and closing of exterior doors.
Too large for my 100mm tile.
Tile thickness small 1 inch.
Trowel size is determined by the tile material tile size and substrate.
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Tile subfloor thickness deflection installing electric radiant heat pouring self leveling mortar leveling flattening the subfloor installing cement board cbu installing schluter ditra marking guidelines for tile how to lay tile how to grout tile joints there s a lot of information and mis information online about what constitutes a suitable subfloor for tile and it s tough to find a.
Framing documents to die for.
This assumes you re using a 1 4 x1 4 square notch trowel.
If your floor is perfectly flat and you won t have to make minor corrections with the mortar thickness you can probably be safe by allowing for 1 8 of mortar.