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As it’s not a large room (approximately 2m x 3m), this wasn’t a very big job and allowed us to see how the finished floor would look. I laid all the tiles out without any adhesive for a dry run. It would have resulted in too many cut tiles and too much faffing about, so we just went by eye. Well, we did, but I didn’t like the layout of the tiles using that as a starting point.

All the online tutorials say you should find the centre point of the room and work out from there. Once the sealant was dry, it was time to start tiling. I then used a roller to apply the sealant to the plywood and left it to dry. The plywood is fastened in place with small nails. It was pretty straightforward apart from around the sink and loo, where we had to make a template to be able to cut the plywood to the right shape.

We then had to lay the plywood to create a level surface for the tiles to sit on. Once I’d got them all up, I gave it all a sweep and a vacuum (good old Henry, he picks up anything!). This was NOT a fun job, especially when Mr R and his friend were in a sunny beer garden enjoying a few pints of beer! I meanwhile was in our bathroom, with goggles, gloves, chisel and a rubber mallet prying up the old floor tiles. My first job was to rip up the old tiles and plywood. So here goes with the floor tiling tutorial!

Tile drill bit (ours is similar to this one I think).

It makes light work of large ceramic tiles like the Scintilla ones)

Tile cutter (we have a machine similar to this but we bought ours from Lidl around 8 years ago.

Sealant for your plywood (similar to this) to stop your plywood soaking up any moisture and warping.

I didn’t want a step into the bathroom for Holly to catch her foot on, so we just replaced like for like and it’s been absolutely fine)

Plywood (we used 3mm as we replaced what was there before, but it’s recommended to use a slightly thicker one, at least 6mm and preferably 9mm-12mm.

Tile adhesive – I’d recommend a flexible adhesive in an older house like mine, just in case the floor has any movement in it.

Tiles (obviously) (we used the Scintilla tiles from Walls and Floors).

I’m sure there’ll be folks out there thinking “ooh I’d have done it differently” and “she’s done a shit job” but this way worked for me! I’m just a lady who can’t afford a tiler and thought I’d have a go.

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Just a quick disclaimer – I’m not a professional tiler, or handyman. It wasn’t actually too difficult, so I thought I’d create a little floor tiling tutorial for you. As we couldn’t afford to pay a professional tiler, I thought I’d have a go at tiling myself. It soon escalated into a bigger job than we first thought! We decided on wall panelling rather than tiling (only after I’d bought all the wall tiles!) and as we were having a roll top bath we’d need to retile the floor. This meant when we ripped the tub out we would have to retile. In an ideal world we would have just changed the tub, but it had a tiled bath panel. Our old bath tub was steel, had started to rust and no matter what I cleaned it with, it always looked dirty. Last year we carried out our bathroom renovation.