Troweling the mortar onto the wall.
12x24 wall tile mortar.
It must be easy to work with and it must adequately fill in gaps between the tile and the substrate.
When installing large format tile you ll want to use a 1 2 x 1 2 square notched trowel.
Tile adhesive is expected to hold the tile in place not just for years but for decades without fail.
The size of your tile should be considered when choosing a grout size.
Otherwise you do.
It cannot cure too fast.
Whether wall or floor tile that tile needs to thoroughly stick to its base surface demands placed on tile adhesive are both extensive and steep.
In general there is more size variation in larger sized handmade tiles so they need a bigger grout joint for that to become less noticeable and for a more even installation.
This will make sure that the ridges of the mortar collapse when setting the tile and give you the required 85 or more of coverage.
Grout joints for large format tile large tiles give you so much design freedom.
The less flat the tile is the more thinset mortar you need beneath it which means a larger trowel size.
More accurately it depends on how flat the tile and substrate are.
And tile as large as 48 is becoming common.
The medium bed holds its consistency better than the thin set which will sag a bit in the middle of the tile.
Crater lake 3x12 design.