re: How difficult is tile work?

Placing whole tiles is super easy. Difficulty is in prepping floor, snapping square lines to get a good start and most difficult...making cuts. It's not "hard" it's just extremely annoying. Could take a day to lay the whole floor, then 2 days to make the cuts for the border.

Replacing 20 or so tiles is nothing. Break one and the rest will pop up with a chisel and a hammer. Scrape the thin set up and lay the tile back down. You can get premixed thin set for a job that small. Doesn't take much knowledge even.

I laid about 800 Sq ft at my old house. I had 1 tile that was hollow out of all of that and I broke it out and replaced. It's not difficult. Look up "back buttering" tile and watch a few you tube videos on using a trowel and you're good to go.

If it is a rental then you probably don't care if its perfect. So if you want to give it a shot, go ahead. If this was in your 30k kitchen then hire it out to the pros.


Laying tiles slopply is easy.

Laying tiles perfect is hard.

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You can get premixed thin set for a job that small.

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Never trust premixed thinset. It doesn't dry correctly and is just asking for trouble. Or so I read on the tile forums. Mixing thinset is cheap and easy.