After seeing this post, I can say that the tiles I picked out will be going back to the store. He just kept telling me it was good quality, it's going to look great. When we got to Home Depot, there was no black in the tiles they picked out. Hubby just kept telling me over and over that they found a great quality tile and that the contractor is going to use grout and the floor will look like ceramic tile. I kept telling him I just wanted black, I didn't care what material they used. They found something at Home Depot and hubby brought me back the next day to pick the color. My husband and the contractor went shopping the other day for what he was going to use. I am having new flooring put down in my bathroom and the only thing I stated that I wanted was a black floor. Now I just need to tackle every other surface in this room – after items 1-150 are completed on my list. I love how real they look and how easy they are to clean!: So there you go! Hope this all makes sense to those of you who are hoping to try this on your own! Lowe’s has a great selection of colors and designs, and the tiles come in 12 by 12 or this 18 by 18 size. I’m hoping the grout kept the water from getting underneath the tiles.īest part is, if I do need to pull up one tile to replace it, I can. The water got past the utility closet threshold to this flooring and as far as I can tell, it’s held up great. Like I said, it’s holding up GREAT! A few weeks ago our humidifier in our HVAC system leaked everywhere (leaving lots of lovely water standing in the basement – yes, water is out to get us this year).
The pics above are the same spot before, during and after the grout. Then I used a rag to wipe it out, leaving the little bit at the bottom. So I just started smooshing (like my technical terms?) the grout into the grooves with my finger. I wiped it all out from between the tiles, about to give up on it, and then realized there was a teeny bit left between the tiles that looked great after it dried: The grout would stay in some places and completely come up in others. The grout is almost too wet – so it didn’t lay in the grout lines well after I wiped it all down with a sponge. I started schmearing between the tiles and then noticed it wasn’t going well. :) So I went back to Lowe’s and got the grout (it’s grout just for this vinyl tile). Overall the tiles went together flush and you couldn’t see between them, but in a few spots you could see the plywood floor: It’s not a big deal cause no one would notice it but me, but for the rest I just used my hands and walked on it, focusing on the edges. I used a rolling pin over half of it and quickly realized the pin was leaving burnish-type marks all over the tile. The directions say to use a weighted roller over the installed tiles, or if you don’t have one, to use a rolling pin. (I had just laid it down a few minutes before so I think that helped.) I did mess up my pattern once and freaked out a bit - but it came up fine with some muscle. That way I could hold on to it without gluing my fingers together compromising the sticky. I would peel the backing off in big pieces, then use little bits of the backing to grab the edges: It’s so subtle I doubt you’d be able to tell if they went the wrong way, but I stuck with it just in case. I found them much easier to use than trying to cut straight and deep enough with a razor blade.Įach tile has a subtle flow to the design, so you’ll want to use the arrows on the back to keep the tiles consistent: I read that you should use a razor to score and cut the tiles, but I used what I had on hand and it was WAY easier:
When I needed to cut a piece, I measured the size I needed, then used a level to make the straight line: I stacked each one off to the side of the other, measuring three inches to the side each time. I ended up with a version of a brick pattern – because the room isn’t very wide, I changed it up a bit. I didn’t want to to a standard pattern with straight lines for a couple reasons – one I wanted it to have more movement to it, and two, I didn’t want to have straight lines I could mess up. I played around with it for awhile, just laying the tiles out to see how they would look. It’s $2 and change for each 18 by 18 tile – so I covered the whole floor in our laundry room for less than $60.įirst up I had to figure out how I wanted the pattern to go. The peel and stick we used was the Novalis tile from Lowe’s: I figured it was high time I finally gave a tutorial on how I installed the peel and stick tile in the laundry room.įirst of all, let me say…I LOVE THIS STUFF!!Īnd now I’m going to tell you how totally easy it was to install.
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