Tiling With Unlevel Walls

Back buttering is a common solution to tiling uneven walls and floors or using tiles of varying thicknesses.

Tiling with unlevel walls.

Things you will need measuring tape tile wet saw leveling spacers and wedges trowel thinset mortar rubber mallet grout grout float grout sponge. It simply involves applying mortar as normal to the substrate but then also applying mortar to the back of the tiles. Extra mortar is applied to areas that need it either areas with dips in or areas with thinner tiles. There are numerous ways to make a bumpy uneven or unlevel surface ready for tiling.

Believe it or not there are more uneven walls and floors than there are even ones. Plastering backer boards and self levelling compound are all great options. The problem is that the wall is uneven. The area of the wall to be tiled minus the area of the window is 37 square feet.

Back buttering is a trick used for tiles of uneven thickness like ungauged slate or handmade tiles extremely large tiles or for tiles being installed on an uneven surface. I explain why this method works soooo easy. The mortar is spread.