New kind of note here. We did a lot of work with tiling in June/July 2024. Here are some lessons learned. 1. It's a marathon, not a sprint. Tiling work is **time consuming**. 1. Setup takes 30 minutes. Tiling takes a couple hours. Clean up takes 30 minutes. That gets you a few square feet, depending on the tile. 2. Do **not** try to do too much at once. 1. Racing against the pot life of your mortar or grout is stressful and will cause you to rush. 2. If your batch of work is too large, the first bits of tile will start to set before you're even finished and become impossible to adjust. 3. Do **not** start a row you cannot finish with the thin set you have left 1. We used all the thin set we had and placed the first two tiles of the next row, only to come back the next day and realize the already-set-in-place-on-the-wall tile was ~1/2 inch too short. This is the worst enduring "mistake" 4. **Work row-by-row** 1. This is obvious when going up the wall, but when going on the floor do NOT tile "around the room" or go in an "L" shape. This will allow tiny errors to compound and pinch you in when you try to fill the gap. 5. Spend money on proper equipment 1. We bought a good tile saw (not the "score and crack" kind), a laser level that mounts on tripods, and a good knee pad. Each of these investments was easily worth the cost. 6. Tearing out tile is a messy, exhausting, overall pretty terrible job. Get ice cream after. **** # More ## Source - Experience. Painful experience. ## Related - [[Do it Right, do it Once]] - [[Slow is Smooth, Smooth is Fast]]