Tiles can be seen everywhere in our home, such as the living room floor, kitchen, bathroom, etc. In addition to being used as floor decoration, it can also be used to decorate walls, TV backgrounds and so on. But the wall tile and the floor tile are actually two concepts, they also have the very big difference. What's the difference between wall tiles and floor tiles? Do you install bathroom floor tiles or wall tiles first? Read this article and get to know it!

Floor Tiles Vs Wall Tiles - What’s The Difference Between Floor & Wall Tiles

Size & Specifications

Wall tiles: The use specifications of each space are different. For example, the specifications of bathroom wall tiles are generally 300×450 mm, kitchen wall tiles are generally 300×450 mm, living room wall tiles are generally 1000×1000 mm or 800×800 mm, and balcony wall tiles are generally 300×450 mm.

Floor tiles: The size of floor tiles generally starts from 400×400mm, and then 500×500mm, 600×1200mm), 800×800mm, 1000×1200mm. The size of each kind of floor tile is different. We can't use multiple to determine the size of wall tile and floor tile.

Patterns

Floor tile: It can be divided into five types, namely "Spanish style tile, vitrified polished tile, glazed tile, non slip tile and infiltrated polished tile".
Wall tile: It is mainly divided into vitrified wall tile and printed wall tile.

Water Absorption

Wall tile: From the material point of view, it belongs to ceramic products, water absorption is about 10%.
Floor tile: It belongs to porcelain products, and its water absorption is about 1%.

Laying Methods

Wall tile: From inside to outside, if the ground has slope or floor drain, we should follow the drainage direction to find slope.
Floor tiles: Pave from bottom to top. For the sake of beauty, the bottom tiles should be laid later.

Do You Tile Walls Or Floor First In Bathroom & Shower?

Generally speaking, the bathroom area should be first installed with wall tiles and then with floor tiles, which will not delay the construction period. There are two reasons:

1. If we lay the floor tiles first and then the wall tiles, we have to wait until the floor tiles are dry and firm before we pave and paste the wall tiles. If the floor tiles are not completely dried and fixed nd we directly lay the wall tiles, and step on the floor tiles, it will artificially cause hollowing, looseness and inequality of height of the tiles.
2. And if we install the bathroom floor tiles first, then when we install the wall tiles later, there will be cement and sand falling on the floor tiles. The hardness of the sand is large and heavy, which is easy to cause damage to the surface of the floor tiles. In addition, it is not easy to do sanitation. The floor drain will open after the floor tiles are laid. The cement slurry flows into the floor drain easily. Cement can set even if it is soaked in water. It's troublesome to block the pipe.

Advantages Of Installing Wall Tiles First In Bathroom Shower

Save time

Whether it is to lay wall tiles or floor tiles in bathroom shower, after the wall tiles are laid, the tiles will take a certain time to wait for the cement to dry out. The difference between tiling shower wall first and tilling shower floor first is that if the wall tile is installed first and then install floor tile, you can lay floor tile when the wall tile is completely dry, and the wall tile will not cause any obstruction to you to paste floor tile. If the floor tiles are to be laid first, you need to wait for the floor tiles to dry out before pasting the wall tiles. Therefore, from the perspective of time, it can save time and improve the decoration efficiency to stick wall tiles first in the bathroom.

Will not affect the quality of subsequent construction

When decorating the bathroom, first install wall tiles, then install floor tiles can effectively reduce the damage to the bathroom floor. Because if the floor tiles of the bathroom are laid first, there will inevitably be some ornaments, such as cement and wall tile fragments, falling on the floor when the tiles are laid. In this way, it may affect the beauty of the floor tiles, thus affecting the laying quality of the floor tiles. So, when decorate bathroom shower commonly, you should choose to install wall tiles first.