How To Lay Thin Brick Flooring

Begin by choosing the area where you are going to install royal thin brick.

How to lay thin brick flooring.

Before purchasing your pavers calculate the square footage of the rooms where you want to lay the brick floors. Mix thin set mortar in a bucket. Designing and installing thin brick from general shale to give my garage workshop some old world charm. The bricks must be installed over a clean flat substrate of the correct material.

Use a drill with a paddle bit or stir by hand using a stirring stick. Press the first row of bricks into the thin set pushing and twisting gently to set them. Royal thin brick installs just like tile using tile set methods. Place your thin bricks on the adhesive and press them down gently.

Mix your mortar to the consistency of cake frosting. When correctly prepared thin set mortar should have a consistency similar to creamy peanut. Alternatively you can use brickwebb by old mill brick to place 12 pre spaced bricks at a time. Measure the length and width of each room then multiply those numbers together.

Spread thin set mortar using a 1 4 x 1 4 notch trowel. Because it is low absorption vitreous royal thin brick can be used indoors or out. If using loose bricks use tile spacers between your bricks to achieve even spacing. The grooves created by the trowel help the bricks stick securely to your kitchen floor.

This project uses english pub brick for a vintage l.