We had to chip away at the tile right beneath where the sides of the cabinets meet, which isn’t easy to do if you don’t have a wet saw! See the illustration below.Īs you’ll see in the next post, when we got to the top of the wall against the underside of the cabinets, it was such a tight fit on the last row. What we didn’t take into consideration when measuring for the placement of the ledger board was that the underside of our flat pack wall cabinets (Ikea) was ever so slightly longer where the sides of the cabinets meet.
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We always try to work with what we have so replacing the legs on the cabinet made a big difference (you’ll see the updated cabinet in tomorrow’s post).īack to the task at hand! Troubleshooting Where to Install the Ledger Board
Spoiler alert: as a side note, we ended up refurbishing the old cabinets and keeping them after all.Īs part of the makeover, we replaced the ugly plastic adjustable legs you see above with more attractive Ikea Capita Stainless Steel Legs. We had some wiggle room on lining up the eventual counter height with the tiles because we were planing on adding adjustable legs onto whatever lower cabinets we ended up with. We based the placement of our ledger board on the height of our old lower cabinets and determined that we would be able to install four rows of the tiles on the backsplash in the give space (our tiles were 6″圆″). Step 1: Determine height of ledger board. We disconnected the plumbing and moved the lower cabinets and appliances out of the room. We had both upper and lower cabinets installed. Here was our starting point in our laundry room renovation.
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A ledger board offered the solution! How to Install a Ledger Board to Tile A Wall We purchased the tile and installed it before the rest of the finishes. Had we kept the lower cabinets and counter, we would have started our first row of tiling from the counter up to the underside of the cabinets and be well on our way to finishing our laundry room. Since we couldn’t come to a decision and wanted to move ahead, we worked backwards. But we couldn’t decide whether or not to keep our old lower cabinets. When we were finishing our basement laundry room, and were ready to tile our laundry room backsplash, we knew we at least wanted to replace the counter top. Sometimes you get to a point in a tile project where you just can’t make decisions so a ledger board can save the day. In our case, we’re using one for our laundry room backsplash. Where tiling is concerned, a ledger board is a horizontal piece of wood attached to the wall temporarily to support the weight of the tile as it’s attached to the wall. Our updated how-to guide for tiling a patterned backsplash will follow here tomorrow!
We’re going to explain how to install a ledger board to keep wall tile level when installing. If you’re as indecisive as us and you want to move ahead with tiling a backsplash, keep this post handy. 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).
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