Mark a horizontal line along the bottom of the wall coming up from the floor by the height of your tile plus one quarter inch.
Setting large wall tiles.
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For tile with at least one edge greater than 15 the american national standards institutes ansi recommends a maximum variance of 1 8 over a 10 span and 1 16 over a 24 span.
So if the tiles are 10 inches high the line should be 10 25 inches off the floor.
With traditional tile that is less than 15 x 15 there can be up to a 1 4 variance in the substrate over a 10 span.
Instead bring it up to about 3 4 of the height of your tiles.
Where a recess is more than one tile deep have a complete tile on the front edge.
So that equal width tiles are on both sides.
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So if you re dealing with four inch tiles your batten board would start three inches off the floor.
Keep the tiles in a.
Don t start it at the floor.
A batten board is nothing more than a 1 x4 or 1 x2 board screwed directly into the wall horizontally.