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Introducing the types of floor tiling tools +The purchase price

There is a list of tiling tools if you want to change your kitchen, bedroom, or shower look. This equipment can help you a lot to work efficiently. Having the right tools can make tiling projects easier and trouble-free. Unless you've done paving in the past, you probably don't have most of what you need in your toolbox. The good news is that all the professional tools you need are under $150 and you can find everything you need at any home improvement store. If you're planning on doing a heavy tiling job, you might want to splurge on a wet tile saw or plan to rent for a day or two. Otherwise, you can use strictly hand tools for almost any tiling project.
  1. Tile Wet Saw or Tile Cutter
Tile wet saws are the best tool for cutting all types of tile, including porcelain, ceramic, stone, and glass. Its blades have no teeth, but grains of diamond or carbide, which are flooded with water when cutting to prevent overheating of the blade and the tile. You can rent a wet saw for around $50 a day or buy it for around $100. A manual alternative to a wet saw is a tile cutter, a simple tabletop tool used to score tiles and break them along cut lines. It works best with ceramic, porcelain and glass tiles.
  1. Grout Float
Grout floats look like masonry or concrete trowels, but have a rubber base. It is used to apply grout to joints between installed tiles. Use a float to press the grout into the joint space and scrape the grout flush with the tile surface. No other tool can do the job, so a grout float is truly an essential tiling tool.
  1. Mixing Paddle
Premixed grouts and grouts are a huge time saver, and you don't have to worry about getting the water to dry mix ratio right. But they have one major downside: cost. This is where the hybrid paddle comes in. If you're going to use dry grout or much cheaper grout, buying a mixing paddle for your drill is hard to avoid. Hand mixing heavy bags of dry mix can leave voids and large dry chunks that are difficult to mix. But add a $15-$25 paddle at the end of the drill and you can easily mix thick bags and grout bags. With just two or three bags of grout or dry mix grout, you are already paying for the pallets by saving on premix material costs.
  1. Grout Sponge
A grout sponge is a large, dense sponge with rounded edges and corners. It is used to smooth grout joints (after applying the grout with a grout float) and to remove excess grout from tile surfaces. While it might seem okay to use a regular household sponge for the job, the sharp edges of standard sponges can pull grout out of seams, and their small size makes them largely ineffective. Continuously utilize a real grout sponge instead.
  1. Notched Trowel
Notched trowels are used to apply tile adhesive to floors or walls. Square-tooth trowels are used for fine mortar (for floor tiles) and V-tooth trowels for tile adhesives (for wall tiles). Trowels come with different size notches; use a thin profile or the size recommended by the adhesive manufacturer. Do not let the sheet dry out and harden on the tiling tool. Wash immediately after use.
  1. Tile Nippers
Tile nippers or tile cutters can help you make irregular cuts (like half circles) that a wet saw or speed router can't. They have pincer-like handles and biting jaws that nibble at tiles like nail clippers. Although tile work can be done without the need for tile nippers, it is a very handy tool for doing all sorts of custom cuts on the go.
  1. Chalk Line
Tiling is about straight lines. There is an old way of drawing straight lines that still works today: chalk lines. Fill the tool with chalk powder, shake it and untie the string to the desired length. Pull the string like a bow and arrow and you'll see a clear but blurry blue line on the floor or wall. Chalk lines are used to define the base tiling area before tiling begins.
  1. Bubble Level
If you're doing work around the house, you probably already have a spirit level, also called a spirit level or a carpenter's level. You can use it to mark vertical, horizontal or diagonal layout lines on walls, or to check tile lines to make sure they are vertical (vertical) or horizontal. It also provides a handy ruler to check the alignment of tiles on walls or floors.
  1. Rubber Mallet
Use a rubber mallet to lightly tap the tile into place. Wrapping the hammer in something soft (cloth, foam, etc.) won't work. The strike zone is too small and the head is still not flexible enough not to break the tile. Invest in a cheap mallet and save yourself countless cracked tiles.
  1. Plastic Buckets
Buckets are essential for mixing mortar and grout and for rinsing out grout sponges. You don't need a special kind of bucket for tiling jobs; just a good size that's easy to carry around, but big enough to get into with a grout float, trowel, and sponge. Ideally, you actually have several buckets handy, at least a few filled with clean water. Having plenty of water available can help the grouting process go faster because the water can get cloudy and you want the grout sponge to keep it as clean as possible.

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