How to Use Porcelain Wall Tile As a Border
- 1). Use your tape measure to find the middle of whatever span you're bordering. Put a pencil mark at the middle.
- 2). ``Butter'' the back of a bullnose porcelain tile with tile mortar, using your putty knife. Make the mortar about 1/8th-inch thick on the back of the tile, and cover it completely.
- 3). Press the tile into place on next to your pencil mark. Repeat the ``buttering'' process for a second tile, and press it on the other side of the mark. Leave 1/8th-inch of space between the two tiles, and between the tiles and whatever surface they're bordering.
- 4). Install the rest of the tiles along the border in the same way. Use a tile cutter to trim the tiles at the ends as needed. Let them set overnight.
- 5). Spread grout over the tiles with a rubber grout trowel, forcing it into the lines between the tiles. Use a damp sponge to wipe off all the excess grout.
