Well this Labor Day weekend my brother and I laid porcelain tile at the BOL. We tiled the kitchen and the two pads at the doors ? All total about 85 square feet.
We used ?Snap Stone? tile:
http://snapstone.com/ which is a floating tile floor that you do not glue down to the sub floor. The tiles have a non-slip rubber attached to the bottom and you snap the edges together like Legos. From the time we put down the cement board to the time we finished with the grout it took about 10 hours.
Saturday:The tile (Snap Stone) was about 3/8? thick and our wood floors are ?? thick. We used 3/8? thick cement board to bring the tile up to floor height. The cement board was put over glue and then nailed down.
Sunday:My brother put the tile down and snapped them together while I cut to his measurements.
A word of caution: When needing exact measurements use the same tape measure as an inch on one tape measure may not be the same inch on another. We didn?t have to cut too many tiles as when we laid the wood floor we did a pretty good job of mapping out the spaces that would become tile.
Whoops! I just cut a tile incorrectly. The rule at the cabin is when you make a mistake on cutting anything whether it is a 2x4, 2x6, plywood or tile it?s Gods way to say STOP! So we did as it was 4:00PM or so anyhow.
Monday: We finished laying the last of the tile and then started on the grout work. We started out with my brother putting the grout down with me following up with a bucket of water and a sponge. Well we got into each other?s way so my brother took over doing both while I cleaned up.
Once grouted, we laid down some 2 x 6?s so we could exit / enter one of the doors. We told the gals to stay off the kitchen floor and did all of our cooking on the old Weber grill.
Tuesday:I spent most of the day cleaning off the coating left by the grout. This was the most labor intensive thing of the whole project.
In conclusion: We followed the directions and it all went well. I have read many reviews on this type of tile - Good and bad. Most of the reviews have been very positive so only time will tell.
Here are some pictures: