- 1). Make a template of the drain, using your tracing paper and cardboard. Lay the tracing paper on the drain, mark around its outer edge, adding 1/4 inch to the circumference, and cut it out with a razor knife. Lay the circle on the cardboard and cut around it. Save the cardboard circle.
- 2). Divide the room into four sections, using your chalk snapline to make two intersecting lines.
- 3). Spread thinset mortar over the floor in sections, using a notched trowel. Lay your tiles along the lines at the middle and build outward toward the walls. Lay all the full tiles that will fit, putting spacers between the tiles as you lay them. Leave the area around the drain untiled. Cut the tiles by the walls as needed with your wet saw. Let the tiles set overnight and remove the spacers.
- 4). Lay the final tiles loosely over the drain, in the position they would be if the drain wasn't there. Lay your cardboard template over the surface of the tiles, lining up the template with the drain beneath (you'll be able to see the perimeter of the drain in the spaces between the tiles). Mark around the template with your pencil onto the surface of each tile.
- 5). Cut the tiles along the marks, using a wet saw.
- 6). Apply mortar to each of the cut tiles in place around the drain, using the trowel. Leave 1/4 inch between the cut edges of the tiles and the perimeter of the drain. Let the mortar set overnight.
- 7). Appy grout to the floor with your grout float, pressing the grout into the spaces throughout. Wipe up the excess grout with a dampened sponge.
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