Tile Ledger Board

The ledger shown here is a length of steel angle held in place by wood blocks screwed to the wall.

Tile ledger board.

A ledger board is a must have step for supporting the weight of the tile as it dries when starting with a clean slate no lower cabinets. Use the ledger board line and plumb line to guide the rest of the tiles. Mark the center of the first tile and align it with the plumb line and you re ready for tile. The best advice i can give is to set up a temporary ledger board at the bottom of the shower wall.

How to tile walls indoors installation tutorial. Clean up right away. Most ceramic tile ledger boards can be a 1 x 2 pine board i have seen them msi california gold ledger panel 6 in. You leave space to fill in the very bottom row of the wall as the last row.

The weight from the tile is only during the setting of the tile once the thin set has dried you can remove the board and complete the last row. Less than a full tile. I explain why this method works soooo easy. This ledger board supports the first row of tile level.

A ledger board is a device used to support the primary row of tile on a level plane. Wall tile is a natural stone slate with a symbiosis of bold earthy tones. If you re as indecisive as us and you want to move ahead with tiling a backsplash keep this post handy. Find the center of the back shower wall use your level to run a plumb line all the way up the wall.

To get a straight level start position a ledger on the wall leaving a gap below about 1 2 in. A strip of plywood or a perfectly straight board will do the job too. Place tiles of the same color along the line in each row so that the vertical line is going between two tiles or it goes through the center of one tile. Create an imaginary vertical line in the center of the pattern and organize the other tiles on this line.