Spent 4 hours tiling my backsplash and it came out crooked

I tried to save $200 by not renting a laser level from the hardware store in Austin, and now every third tile slopes down a quarter inch. How do you fix a tile layout that's already set without ripping the whole thing out?

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kaib1819d ago

Oh man, that's a tough spot. A quarter inch slope is like a trip hazard waiting to happen, you know? Grout can hide some sins but not that much. If the tiles are fully set, your best bet is to pull the ones that are really off and replace them, even if it's just the worst offenders. You might be able to cheat by prying them out carefully with a pry bar and a thin putty knife, then resetting them with a level. Sometimes you can even shave a little off the back of the tile with a wet saw if the slope is mostly from the mortar bed being too thick. Good luck, man, we've all been there with a job that snowballed.

colesanchez19d ago

Agree with @kaib18 on prying those worst ones out, that's probably the cleanest fix here.