How To Install Backsplash In Kitchen In Small Mobile Home

Updated 1-9-23

Installing a ceramic backsplash and changing the lighting in a mobile home bathroom, on a budget.

Ever wonder if you can do that fancy ceramic design on your trailer?? Phil shows how fancy you can make your mobile home.

⏱️⏱️Chapters⏱️⏱️
00:00 We’re going to show you what you can do on a mobile home
00:15 We pulled off all the formica from the walls to put ceramic tile
00:35 We are pulling out an old medicine cabinet and upgrading the lighting
01:20 Upgrading as the customer can afford it
01:35 No difference between a mobile home, just factory uses cheaper materials
01:52 Working with tile for backsplash
02:32 Cutting ceramic tile tips and tricks
04:00 I’m showing you how you can do this at home with the tools you have, and on a budget
04:40 Using an inexpensive trowel for grout
05:40 Want to get inside the corners
06:10 How to protect surfaces from grout
06:40 Doing a complex area, the corner
07:15 Want to clean with sponges and make sure everything is solid, pushed in
07:40 Matching the corner tiles along the cut
08:00 Want to keep cleaning the area so you don’t have a different color sticking out because of your grout
08:45 Up to the point we need to grout, add the trim back
09:42 Grouting the tile backsplash
10:35 Finished Product, even in the smallest of places you can do it

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Hello, folks. Today, we’re going to show you what you can do where everybody else says, you can’t do. This is a mobile home and used to have Formica, actually.

And then it was some sticker stuff, and we took all that off. But we’re going to do is put what you would see in backsplash and a fancy house. We’re going to do it on a mobile home just the same. So we’re going to be an American, not American’t.

Ok, on this same project. It used to be a built in medicine cabinet. They don’t have the money to upgrade, but we went ahead and took that out. The lighting in here is really, really bad.

So what I wanted to do for a budget is take this light and put it into a nice, nicer looking decorative light, which I may have to move. But not only that, I wanted to add a light here and then a light inside the walk-in shower that we did. So I wanted to do these things too on a budget because I can’t afford a whole lot of money.

So again, you’re going to see us make these improvements. And I’ve just explained we’ll end up putting this back and we’ll have a better looking light. You know, we could get real fancy and just totally rearrange all this. We’ve already upgraded the cabinets and put in a better toilet. Eventually, we’ll do a better floor, but it as they can afford it.

And as you can afford it if you’re doing it on your project. I just want you to know where people say, Oh, we can’t work on mobile homes because it just you can’t do those things. The plumbing is the same, the electrical the same. It’s just a lower grade of quality. And we’re going to make it better. And you can make it better at your place.

What we’re doing is working with a tile for Backsplash, and what I like to do generally is cut the tile in the middle or in the side here so that I don’t have a lot of complications when it comes to going around the corner. In this case, it literally falls out for that row and will go over the top. So, if I cut this through, I will just leave this section out and then I’ll have both sides to start with.

And I know that sounds very complex, but we’ll do another part where I’ll show you literally, me putting it in. We’re going to go outside and cut it. Okay. In this case, I have a cheapie saw because I don’t do this all the time, but sometimes I’ll do a whole lot of it at one time. But I also have like four of the little ones.

So you can do this at home with little ones. It gets to be a journey holding this together. So if you’re dealing with the little ones, go ahead and leave the plastic on there, if you can, because this can get also you want to try to make sure your eyes are protected and that in this case, whenever you’re using these saws, any ceramic tile saw, make sure you got water, the little handsaw that you roll and break.

Pretty tough to do with this stuff. Especially when it has the aluminum strips in it. This doesn’t. So I’m just going to crank it up and I’m going to cut through which I’ll…

All right. Now, all these guys that are professional. That’s all they do. Ceramic tile guys are probably having a fit. Oh, he’s not doing this, and he’s not doing that. What I’m showing you that you’re working on your own house. You can do this stuff without tearing out all the drywall and putting in studs so that you can fasten concrete boards. I’m showing you how to do this on a budget. Okay. Believe me, I know how to do it the fancy way.

I know how to center all those things. But people in on a budget are not going to be able to afford all that and it’s just going to be overwhelming. What I’m going to show you this how to do this at home with that, all that. So all you other guys are professional ceramic tile guys settle down. Let these people do make their house better.

Now we’re going to use a very inexpensive I have got a real cheap, inexpensive handle better than this one actually does quarter inch and 3/16ths but. And I’m not going to show you the brand because nobody’s paying you to do that. So here we go. We’re going to take a little bit of this and put it on the wall.

I’m going to get all the way in there. So it’s real secure all the way down to the bottom. That is grooves. So I whenever you’re getting into this particular surface is pretty easy to clean. But if you got a surface that’s like this, you want to make sure you protect it really, really well. You can use Pam or some other kind of spray oil on this area where you’re going to, don’t want things to stick, like a window or anything else.

That’s slick, you can just put that Pam on there and this stuff and just come off. All right. So now we’re getting ready to start a very complex area, which is right here. Need to have a bucket around, so you can keep cleaning. And in this case, we have a bit of a sink, but I don’t really like to see.

So anyway, we’re going to wipe all this down with sponges just a little bit and make sure everything is pushed solid in. I want to make sure to get those grooves cleaned out. Okay. Now, on a little bit hanger.

OK, we got that corner cut over this. All right, there’s a start. I want to keep cleaning up, getting it out of those grooves cleaned up inside here so the grout won’t have a different color sticking out, which we’ll do, and then we’ll get back with you. For one thing I should note is that we had loose drywall around the frame here.

We put screws in so it wouldn’t move. We don’t want any of that movement. And we nail down all the staples and nails and things, but running a hammer over it. And then finding it and then hammering it down and then again, we’ll show you as we go across for the lighting, but there’s a start of the corner and we start moving the across back and forth.

Long day, but we’ve got it up to the point where you have put grout in it, need to put trim in around the windows and they have which can be upgraded to something fancier.

We put the medicine cabinet back in, and the light of to take back out, we added lights. You want to come on over here? Both here and over the shower, by feeding it over. We actually had to open up the ceiling right there. And then put a piece of wood up there and put it back up, and I’ll have to seal it back up. Make it look a little better. Than that, we had two feed a wire over to here, and then over there. All that’s LED.

Umm, including the light fixture. Went back for LED. And again, this is all on the mobile home that most say we can’t do it.

“Yep.”

Hey. Love the ceramic tile slash glasses on the walls of this mobile home and we haven’t spent a fortune on it. We have spent quite a bit of money. And we’re putting the unsanded grout in the crack. I know, again, some ceramic tile guy’s like, oh, you’re using a finishing knife, but you can actually use anything flat.

You can use a spatula for that matter, if you’re really good with a spatula. I recommend it. But this is not a video about how to do ceramic tile. This is a video on about how you can do these things in mobile homes. So we’ll show you a little bit later what other things we’re going to be doing in this situation and what the finished product will look like.

Okay, finished product, not as fancy, as big fancy house, but it’s a little, little place. I would have done a more detailed thing about how to do ceramic tile. This is more about me showing you even in the smallest of places, you can actually do that nice stuff they have in a fancy house. So, you can. You’re an American not an American’t. Thanks.

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