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I watched the entire video from start to finish twice, made several notes, and was finally feeling confident that I could adequately tile a room... Then I realised I don't even have a house! FML!

I like that he emphasized his mistakes so we don't replicate them. Most would not do this.

The fact that there was an endearing audience to see the dryer dust bunnies blow is just wholesome.

We literally used this as a step by step guide for our tile project and it was so helpful (along with the product links, loved those!!) - thank you!! **Note to future folks - a different trowel is needed for under the Ditra vs the tile. He mentions this in passing, but I didn't catch it the first time, so wanted to make sure I shared!**

As a long time contractor I have to say you did a good job with the tips for homeowners. Seeing the mistakes that can happen and compound quickly will help a lot of folks. The Mapei (pronounced Ma'Pay) flex cq grout is great. 3 things. It dries aggressively so dampen the floor two rows in front of you (in small spaces) with the sponge and leave the water haze there. Apply grout to those two rows, squeegee with float as you showed (use a rubber float-foam will not remove cleanly. This is a game changer for grouting) and then wring out the sponge and begin cleaning within 5 min in a circular pattern and dressing the joints; while cleaning the sponge and wringing often. Wait five mins and wipe lightly with a barely damp sponge again. Haze is gone and no more wiping like old grout. It will dry rock hard in a day. Again, this is for the Flexcolor CQ shown in the video. This grout will stick to natural stone if it is not sealed well before application. Typically, only factory edges of tile are placed together. Cuts go to the wall. The last tile that had too much thinset under... It is perfectly ok to scrape off that thinset, reapply and make new notches. Keeping the tile lower. It's also ok to apply some body weight to the tile to get it to go down if need be. Esp if the thinset is getting stiff or maybe mixed a little too dry. Also a single large "egg beater" type mixer is best for thinset. Spiral mixers entrain too much air in the mix which causes problems later on. Enjoy your channel and hope these tips help. Keep up the great vids and voice overs.

As a professional tiler for over 16 years this video reminds me of when I first learned my trade. Good end product but a lot of mistakes and a lot of room for improvement. BUT this guy is the kind of apprentice I would take on any day of the week. Willing to learn. Game to get stuck in, and most importantly a genuine interest in tiling. Good job mate 👍

I am a single mom and will be using your video for guidance!! I'm going to home depot tomorrow to buy the equipment and I thank you so much for this video. It was so humble and helpful! God bless you!!

Coming from the tile industry, I really appreciated calling out things that were done incorrectly or things you should have done differently. Tile is not easy to install, but your end product looked nice. By the way, I’m not an installer, just a manager.

I did this project... step by simple step. I can't thank you enough for this video. My laundry flooring is beautiful and my wife was very impressed with my work.

Being a DIYer myself, whilst execution is far from perfect its actually more helpful than most other videos as it shows you where to expect snags as someone who doesn't do it for a living. Great job!

By far the best DIY video I've seen. It's real, not intimidating and not run by an experienced pro demonstrating a DIY.. Thank you

This is a great project for learning a new DIY skill. The project is small, tucked away where no one will ever see it. This allows you to be confident and ok with making and learning from mistakes. As a DIYer, myself, it irritates me when people only focus on what you're doing wrong. I thought your finished product was perfectly adequate for its purpose and now you can take the learning points and critiques and do a better job on a larger project.

This turned out fantastic! I love that you kept the mistakes in the video as most people who do a tiling project for the first time will most likely encounter the same problems.

Quick grout tip: that first wipe you did with a sponge is great, but if you add a couple drops of dawn dish soap, it allows so slip across the tiles and it makes clean up much easier

"A pretty stressful moment" Having done Tiling years ago I can honestly say, I remember pretty much every moment of every job was a pretty stressful moment lol. You did a good job on that, I don't think you will ever get any trouble from it.

Johnny, I just came across your channel and love that you're willing to dive in and learn from your mistakes. Disregard the snarkmeisters.

So many haters! Laying tile for the first time is tough and he ended with a nice looking result. Thanks for taking the time to document your process and help others. Cheers!

love that you're not perfect and you do retrospective commentary. Huge fan, well done

I love this video because you're not hiding your mistakes and that can happen to all of us. It really makes this video much more relatable and I appreciate that. Thumbs up

Not only was this video informative, but you present these topics with a surprising wholesomeness and I definitely appreciate that! Thanks for this one!

Appreciate you talking about your mishaps and mistakes cause most video tutorials do not tell you things that may go wrong. I’m definitely not going to attempt to try. You got skills X

I appreciate how to made this film and didn’t edit out the mistakes. It makes it way more “real” and ensures I avoid making the same mistakes. Great work!

Thank you for including your comments on what you wish you'd done differently, that's so much more helpful than watching an over-edited "perfect" job!

I’m getting ready to tile my hot water heater closet and this helped me a lot. Thanks for taking the time to edit and put this video together. Greatly appreciated!

I would recommend removing the molding and then reinstalling it once the floors laid down so the molding is over top of the tile and you don’t have to grout to the wood to fill the gap

i applaud you for your 1st tiling job...we live & we learn...you did an excellent job with teaching and talking about your mishaps...that was very humble of you whereas a lot of other folk would simply make excuses...that said, i’m ready to tackle my 1st tiling job...and, because of you, i’m starting with my laundry room, lol...thanks so much!!!

This video is perfect for someone who is a non professional and wants to do-it-themselves. Thanks for posting, and also sharing your mistakes. Well done!

Beloved i live in an area full of cowboy workmen and i have decided to do my tiling myself so glad to find your video. I have tiled before my friend showed me how to do my kitchen floor and i thoroughly enjoyed it.

I install tile for a living and you definitely did your research. Most tile videos I watch I just shake my head, cheers dude. Your next tile job will be much much easier.

Im 150% sure that i would never even do this in my life so why am i watching ??? It’s so satisfying to watch idk why lol

To avoid having to level the subfloor you could have just started laying the tile at the high spot. Further along all you will have to do is mud the tile thicker to match on the lower spots. Ex tile guy.

Same comment as a few others have dropped here: Emphasizing (and not hiding) your mistakes is what makes this content more valuable than most. Even the most seasoned professionals make mistakes. Telling everyone about those mistakes doesn't diminish your skill or value. It helps us all avoid repeating some of those mistakes. Great video! Thank you

Love this video. He put in the good and kept the flaws. Very honest. The floor looked Gr8. And that Price is Right sound was Priceless. ❤️

I have install a lot of tile for over 50 years. But buttering tile should be a must. To me Schluter is the way to go. To me I do use just water. $$$$$ Must people do not want to pay a lot for a tile job. Water works great. Your job looks very nice.

I really enjoy how he made mistakes and said it’s not perfect. Awesome video!!

Nice for your first time. This seems to prove my point that 95% of my customers say they have installed tile once and will never do it again.

I didn't realize untill the end he was saying "Damp", I thought he was just mad at that sponge - "Now i'll wipe them off using the damn sponge"

Thank you for being honest with your challenges and errors

Thank you, a proffesional video and professional work. (No memes, loud sounds or distractions of no relevance for the work.)

Best tool i have found to remove staples in wood flooring or subfloor is a pair of channel locks. You grab the staple head with the plies facing down and then rock back along the curved edge of the channel locks.

Thank you! I particularly appreciated you mentioning how you’d do something different/alter a step. Your mistakes shed light on questions I didn’t know I had for this!

i love all the cheers when you took the leaf blower too the vent lol

Having just removed the vinyl flooring off the concrete slab in my bathroom, you should be very grateful that both those layers of vinyl were not glued down. I believe your demo took a tenth of the time and no water, no vinyl layer, vinyl backing layer and no glue goo layers. I'll take nice and dry any day. Plus I had to buy a wallpaper steamer. $55.00 You lucked out. Staples Smaples, they are easier on the hands than scraping endlessly. Well done on the staples. The first thing I notices in your video was that crooked box, but hey, your end project is exquisite. Beautiful job. Really Thank you.

I have a handyman business and I had my first tiling job in a laundry room. I followed your video step by step and got great results. Thanks!

Watched this some years ago, wasn’t planning on doing tile back then, fast forward a couple years and here I am doing a full bathroom renovation 😂 I needed to see the 1/4 tile overlap as I’m also using large 12x24 tiles. Good job and thanks for making this.

Pull staples with fencing pliers. Absolutely the best way. I demo for a living and it gets it done so quick

I watched this video while my wife re-tiled our bathroom. You guys both did a great job.

I really sat on the toilet and watched the whole 18 minutes and 58 seconds.. 😐

Tip: DON’T mix a full bucket. Mix a half a bucket at a time. Besides being heavy, it will probably start getting hard on you before you can use it all. Also you can usually get away with using thin set without additives. Just powder and water is good. Edit: pretty good, especially for your first try!

Man you're so professional for your first time working in this matter! Thank you so much for your video! I have all carpet in my 3 bathrooms for 18 years, since this freezing 2021 weater. I had a lots of damaged in my house because of the frozen pipes, now I don't have no choice. I have to install tile in all my bathrooms. Thank you so much for this very useful an excellent video explaining. God bless you!

If it's the first time you've put a floor, it really turned out great. I was shocked. I make floors for a company and it really turned out amazing.

Learning to tile in the laundry room is a good call. You don't see much of the floor anyway and now you've got some experience for next time. Looks great!

I own a tile saw n trust me this small space can still suck.. good job bro you just showed everyone why were expensive

You’re actually pretty good man. You know what you’re doing for sure. Thanks for the advice

hey a tip with the grout step; just work with an area the size of the knife youre spreading with. 1 swipe to put as much grout as you need, 2nd swipe to remove the excess & 1 space at a time. obv takes longer the larger the room, but it's the way to do it

Tiling isn't overly complicated. It just takes a lot of patience. You did a great job even with the mistakes.

This is a good video for learning - learning that I need to get a professional tiler in ;)

This video is awesome, also the layers under layers = so relatable. :)

Who the well would thumbs down this video? It was excellent! All new homeowners and weekend warriors need to see process, success and mistakes to weigh with the consequences of not doing the right thing! Great vid

I found the clarity of explaining was exceptional. I intend to watch more on this lad well done 👍

I saw that my house was .1 degree off level, so I tore the whole house down. Welcome to my rebuild my home series

Awesome!! Thanks! I really liked the fact that you didn't make it feel easy or tried to cover mistakes. You included all the hard moments and it gives a great feeling that it happens for everybody

Lmao this is me when I think tiling my bathroom is a ten minute job 😂 5 days I am still on it watching tutorials, it’s coming along nicely tho 👍

For the vinyl floor demo, vinyl needs to be installed over a smooth underlayment or any imperfections with telegraph through. That is why you had the particle board there. A floor scraper is great for removing staples without pulling them by hand with pliers! (Sorry if already answered...but too many comments to go through.)

Thank you for being straightforward and sharing your newbie tiling job. I've yet to do my first. Lot's of negative comments but that's just idle chatter from know-it-alls. With constructive criticism from DIYers and advanced tilers, you'll get better with subsequent tile jobs.

Great job! Thanks for leaving the mistakes and giving instructions on what to do on some of them. Your video makes it ok for the project to have slight flaws and still turn out great! Thanks again

I did something similar to my half bath's old tile floor... new 12x24" tile. The old tile was installed directly on the 1/4" luan by someone who had no clue what they were doing... no cement board or ditra, bad! No wonder it was shot. My end of row "odd" cuts were along the wall under the vanity and toilet and I started my first row at the door, not back wall, since it is the most visible. A couple pointers... most tile/vinyl has that extra 1/4 to 1/2 layer of luan/plywood as an underlayment on top of the subfloor to help even it out and provide both strength and spacing for correct height. It is good that that the tile is not directly attached to the subfloor or you'd have some real fun pulling it up! ;) I would have put down at least a 1/4" layer of luan first. You want more than just 3/4" subfloor under tile to prevent flexing. I put down another 1/2" layer of plywood, then used 1/4" cement board (thinset under) so the entire floor is 1-3/4" thick under the tile layer. Get a dedicated nail puller like a Bates Choice ($10-20)... they look like a tile nipper and save so much time.

Great job with detailing this whole process, mistakes and all. Makes it more real for what people might encounter. Doing mine this weekend!

For your first time you’ve done an amazing job, positive video with someone who obviously wants and like to learn, well done man well done 👏🏻👍🏻👌🏻

Thanks! Had a contractor take my money and run, so I watched your video to help me know how to do it myself.

Best tile floor video ever. Its the first time I honestly have no unanswered questions.

Your dryer is going to love you for that. I cleaned out our vent last year and a large load of laundry seems to dry in about half the time it used to. Nice job on the video.

I like pulling the molding, it gives you a way to deal with imperfections or walls not being straight.

Great job I am about to start a new tile job and have not done one in 3 to 4 yrs. It was a great review and reminder. One thing I noticed is that you used Modified mortar. Last week when I was reading the instructions for the underlay, it was very explicate NOT to use modified mortar unless is was the manufactures brand. There is a really good explanation in the instructions on why to use unmodified mortar (has to due with how they cure) . Also the instructions call for taping the seams of the underlay for water proofing. Which would be important for bathrooms or laundry rooms. Just thought I would mention this as I did not see it in any comments. But loved your video especially the tile layout.

Used the leaf blower trick. HUGE amount of lint came out. So satisfying

"I never did this before" He owns a tile saw.

Great video! We've watched this twice now and we appreciate seeing your process. Knowing that this was your first time tiling but it still turned out so nicely make this project really approachable for beginners.

What I enjoy about your channel and this video is that you went into details about every little mistake that you made and how you managed to fix them. It gives people a perfect picture of what to expect and how to prevent those mistakes from happening.

Respect to anyone, who gives this a go. The thought of it is daunting, but so rewarding when completed ✅

I just finished a small bathroom. You did a Fine Job !!

What’s great about this is that you did it so horribly but still got the job done , that it gives people like me (first timer) total confidence. Superb work

After watching this well-put-together teaching video, I feel like I can do my laundry room. Thank you so much for putting forth the effort to share.

By far, one of the best how to videos I’ve ever seen. Thank you! 🙏🏼

I have been trying more DIY projects around the house but have never done any tile work. I have to tile our front entrance way and after watching several videos, yours is the one that I will watch over and over as my go to. Thanks a million for explaining everything from all the products you used, to the techniques and as well the mistakes you made. Awesome video.

I think it looks good. All of these pros here in the comments have a ton of stuff to say but then again they are looking at a DIY video. LOL. Keep up the good work bro!

Couple comments. If someone else already mentioned this then my apologies got piling one. WRT the ditra install part. You must use unmodified thinset mortar. It looked to me that your thinset kit from Lowe’s had add the acrylic additive (the milky stuff liquid u added). As far as I know, acrylic modified thinset Will kit properly adhere to the mesh backing on the ditra. You should have also wiped the subfloor down with a damp sponge to both clean the floor and add some moisture to the subfloor so that it doesn’t pull the moisture out of the thinset as quickly. Lastly, the thinset mortar must be mixed with a higher water content than what you would use for tiles. That was part of the reason why the thinset was not adhering to the mesh backing so well. Again, not to be picky. Applaud your effort. Rock on!!

Nicely done. Great instructional video and you admit, which is what all us DIYers go through, you don't get your first attempts perfect!

This was super helpful! Thank you for showing us the process and discussing ways you would improve the project if you were to do it again

Going to tile my bathroom tomorrow. This was super helpful and I love that you straight up didn’t know everything and explained how you would have done it differently as you went. Super informative!

Thank you, you are a true DIY channel. All mistakes done are shown and explained.

Thank you for sharing your experiences as a first time tile installer. God bless you!

My boy is posing on the tile like he's in the hood picture from the 90s 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 Good job.

Tip: make sure all your tiles are leveled when installing

Doing my first tile job tomorrow. Definitely glad you emphasized your mistake when you cut the bottom of the casing. Definitely wouldn't have thought about the thin-set. 👍

I appreciate your honesty. We are tiling a 26x30 addition. We are DIYers. Boy have we made mistakes even after a lot of research. We used Advantech flooring. Since the addition was going to flow into another room we had to add 1/4 plywood so along with the thinset and tiles it would be even with the next room. We put the Ditra down with thinset. The next day we noticed humps in the ditra. Turns out they recommend no thinner than 3/8 plywood. We assumed that the water from the thinset was to much for the 1/4 inch plywood which btw came very bowed. We were devastated. At this point there is no turning back. We are trying very hard to get this floor done by Thanksgiving because we always host. My husband works a 50 hour week. I just don't see how we can finish it in time. Had I known this floor would cost me this much money and aggravation I would have chosen wood floor.

I appreciate the video. It makes me feel a bit more comfortable about starting my bathrooms next week. Thanks for sharing

Tip for removing all those staples... Grab em with a pair of channel locks, push toward the rounded edge and "roll" them out.

Awesome vid. Gives me the confidence to try. I like that you include your problems/hiccups along the way. Helps a guy know what to look out for!

We always learn the most from our mistakes On jobs.taking responsibility and making it right is what builds a good reputation and gets you repeat customers. Keep on keepin on brother!