A batten board is nothing more than a 1 x4 or 1 x2 board screwed directly into the wall horizontally.
Tiling a wall with a window.
What you need pry bar drill handsaw margin trowel notched trowel grout float wide putty knife caulking gun bucket sponge.
Then measure around the window as to cut the tiles with a score and snap cutter or a wet saw to fit into location.
To achieve this plan the layout of your tiles in advance to ensure all tiles are.
Tiling around a window is a difficult task but it can be made easier thanks to this video of helpful tiling tips.
Instead bring it up to about 3 4 of the height of your tiles.
When installing the tiles around windows make sure you first secure the tile corner trim in thinset.
So if you re dealing with four inch tiles your batten board would start three inches off the floor.
We recommend using a 50mm x 25mm piece of wood although any will do with a length of around 1 8m depending on the size of your wall.
In order to tile around a window you have to spread thin set on the wall by using a notched trowel.
Don t start it at the floor.
Mark each tile and gaps on the rod with a pencil and number them.