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Oh boy, check this out. Hi, I'm Tim Carter from AskTheBuilder.com. Thanks for joining me today
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I'm in this room that we're remodeling, and we have to extend a tile floor into this area that's not finished
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Check that out. The reason that happened is just about 10 days ago, right where I'm standing
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there used to be a wall that went all the way to the ceiling. We took it down so that the two rooms
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will now become one. The challenge is this. Check this out. If you go ahead and start
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to lay the tile going this direction behind me and you think that you'll be able to line
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it up with your eye, making sure that the lines are perfect, it's not going to happen
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You'll make a mistake every time. You actually need to create a line on this concrete slab
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that you will actually lay the tile to so that you know that those rows are straight
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And here's one way that I've done it in the past, works pretty well. You can use just a regular chalk line
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This one happens to have no chalk on it yet. If you're going to use one that's already got chalk
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make sure you pull the chalk line out and snap it a couple times to get as much chalk off as possible
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But check this out. Come here. All you have to do is open up the chalk line
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and you hook the chalk line right to the underside of the tile
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You can see right here, I took the end of the chalk line, hooked it to the underside of this tile
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pulled the string tight, and then what I do, now look real closely here
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I go ahead right here and I get the string lined up
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right with that edge of the tile. That's exactly what I want to see right there
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so I know it's right. Then I take the chalk line and I come back down here and what I can do first of all is do this is I can actually use the line the string line and I can see by just hovering it over the edge of this tile that these tiles are
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perfectly in line. That's exactly what we want to see. So now what we'll do is I can make a line right here, right underneath the string line
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on the concrete slab. So we know where that point is. We come back here, and then I line up the string
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looking right down the string, put my eye right over it, and you can see that I can swing the string left and right
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until it's right at the edge of the tile, which it is right there. You can see it right over the edge of the tile
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put the string down here, make a mark, and if you take a heavy object like a full
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paint can, I can set it on the string so now the string won't move, and I can go
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ahead and make marks right underneath the string in a couple of places, and then if
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you want, you can take a straight edge like a four-foot level, connect those
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lines you've got your straight line to start laying your tile. I'm Tim Carter
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