Trowel size is determined by the tile material tile size and substrate.
Finished tile floor thickness.
Most man made tiles are around 1 4 to 3 8 inch thick.
This is easily checked when you are ordering material.
On the shower side of the threshold the tile underlay will have a 6mm batten underneath.
If your floor is perfectly flat and you won t have to make minor corrections with the mortar thickness you can probably be safe by allowing for 1 8 of mortar.
My 2x4 timber framing comes up at 92mm wide.
4 1 6 92 6 6 1 4 120mm the finished thickness of my threshold.
Trowel size is determined by the tile material tile size and substrate.
This assumes you re using a 1 4 x1 4 square notch trowel.
If your floor is perfectly flat and you won t have to make minor corrections with the mortar thickness you can probably be safe by allowing for 1 8 of mortar.
Natural stone tiles on the other hand are much more difficult to work.
This usually doesn t create a problem unless you re installing tile over an existing floor and the new height restricts the opening and closing of exterior doors.
Cross laminated pe vapor barrier under floating floor after leveling with sleepers.
Porcelain tile thickness is similar to ceramic tile with some porcelain tile options available slightly thicker.
Tile thickness small 1 inch.
Too large for my 100mm tile.
Tile subfloor thickness deflection installing electric radiant heat pouring self leveling mortar leveling flattening the subfloor installing cement board cbu installing schluter ditra marking guidelines for tile how to lay tile how to grout tile joints there s a lot of information and mis information online about what constitutes a suitable subfloor for tile and it s tough to find a.
Say i had 2mm grout either side of my top tile to the edging that would leave a 106mm gap.
Framing documents to die for.