[robertjag]

I am doing a bathroom over I would like to know which do I tile first the floor or the walls? Also which side of the durock do I tile to?

[massplumber2008]

Hi Robert,

Boy, is that a loaded question, and you can expect a different answer from every other person you ask it to, too.

There really is no set way to do it. What there is, is your preference for things. Here, you can either make your cuts on the last row of floor or wall tiles, or even both wall and floor tiles and you can cover the floor tile cuts with the wall tile if you tile the floor first, or if you tile the walls first, you can cover the wall tile cuts using the floor tiles...

Either way, grout will cover up the junction between the floor/wall tiles and hide most imperfections anyway, so like I said, it really doesn't matter.

Most of the time, I lay my floor first as I like to cover my floor tile cuts with the wall tiles.

In terms of the durock and what side to tile on, you want to set your durock in a 1/4" notched trowel layer of thinset mortar, screw it off every 6 inches with the DUROCK SYMBOLS on the durock board facing UP so everyone can read that you used durock (advertising gimick). Finally, use alkali-resistant tape and tape/seal the edges of the sheets together to make the floor "seamless", if you will.

More questions just let us know, OK?

Mark