Tiling kitchen walls above worktop

[redstone]

When tiling kitchen between worktop and cabinets which have walls going out by 7mm from one end to the other along 2.5m horizontally and a couple of mm vertically. What is the best solution to lay them level using extra adhesive or how the walls are?

 

[Doggit]

It depends on whether your tiling skills are better than your plastering skills, and it would help to take the units off of the wall. If you're going to try and tile the errors out, then you need a long block of wood etc to keep checking the wall, and tap any errors back in, but you would very likely need to keep taking tiles off to add adhesive etc. Or you can use something like a half bag of one coat Thistle plaster, and flatten the wall first. The problem comes if the wall is longer than the units, in which case, you'd be bettor off hacking some of the plaster off, and then flattening it.

 

[redstone]

Thanks for replying doggit, very helpful. Ideally would of level the walls off first as all walls in kitchen are out, unfortunately time was very limited so could not do so. Done quite a few tiling jobs so thinking timewise use the tiles to level it out. From previous experience yeah will likely have to take off and adjust the adhesive on the tiles. Excellent tip on the long piece of wood.

 

[Doggit]

Do the tiling in rows, and set a tile at the opposite end to give you a guide for the batten to check the level. Then you can take off the last tile and set it properly when you get there. Once you'v got the 1st row done, you'll find it easier to match the following rows vertically, and horizontally as you go.

 

[redstone]

OK will give that a go, thanks gain for your input.