How To Apply Thinset - Tile Installation Video - The Tile Shop

This comprehensive DIY tile video teaches you how to mix thinset and how to apply thinset. Not only do you learn about the tile mortar tools and materials you'll need, you'll also pick up a few other tips for a successful tile installation.

[RockwellAIM]

The 'sticking to the trough' test at 3:13 or so is quite useful. Thanks!

[Mojo]

Everything is good but you forgot the back butter

[angelodeluca]

You need to back butter the tiles and collapse the air pockets in the trowel marks by moving the tile up and down. There’s a reason a trowel is made that way. That tile will fall off that wall in no time

[davidplank]

Subtitle: "For the DIY connoisseur who is about to mount a single large tile to a wall without anything below it (i.e. other tiles and spacers)"

[ronlong]

The gray material was quite obviously mixed thinner. Not a good comparison.

[UndercoverNormie]

I could never do that job for a living, my brain cannot STAND the sound of the scraping.

[Sunnyis]

In baking, Flour first than add water as much as needed . Like your video.

[MrRaptorman]

Also, you need to back butter large tile. Pushing the tile is not setting the tile. The tile needs to be set using a back and forth motion collapsing the ridges. This is clearly not an experienced installer.

[neilwilliams]

Would peanut butter be a good consistency or, is that to thick?
Awesome video. Thanks a lot.

[stevejuliejames]

Can you use this stuff on a glass table-top then mosaic it ?? Cheers. Julie.

[tony]

if Iam not mistaken is like 4oz of water to a 1 lb of powder isn't?

[gloriana]

This looked more like a pro bond commercial.

[timothyicenhour]

Where can I purchase pro bond? Is that something Lowes would carry? Thanks!

[mayalee]

I watch a lot of ur video, and I have a question for u. Can u used the mortar to lay the vinyl peel and stick sheet. I have peace some vinyl floor and now they're sticking up and I hate have to keep pushing it back, so I was wondering can I used the mixture of mortar to lay the vinyl.

[MrRaptorman]

Oh my goodness. Please never mix thinset like this. First have a vac running clipped to the bucket so you don't inhale the dust. Also wear an at least an N95 face mask. Don't just add water and thinset mix. Grab a large cup and add water to the bucket with the cup so that you can control the amount of water. Also follow the directions on the bag. It will tell you exactly how much water is needed for the volume. Then add water to get a creamy constancy. You wont need to add much. You also want to key the thinset into the substrate them trowel. Keying in the thinset is done by using the flat edge of the trowel and working the thinset into the substrate. Then you trowel the thinset.

[speway]

The video was chopped up. Who's to say that the tile was not pulled down a little for the vid?

[famtasch]

This is definitely NOT the way to mix thin-bed mortar (alias thinset) properly!