| If you do a lot of cooking in your kitchen (or even if | | | | provide a watertight barrier. If your wall has a pelmet it |
| you don't), the wall area immediately behind your | | | | is best to remove this before fixing the wall tiles as it |
| cooker hob can become dirty and stained. Here is a | | | | will be easier later to cut a small amount off the |
| guide to enable you to create a splash-back area | | | | pelmet rather than tiling around it. Once removed, find |
| using wall tiles to prevent your kitchen walls becoming | | | | the vertical centre of the wall. This is important when |
| dirty, looking unsightly or eventually ruined. | | | | using tiles to create a splash-back as the area will look |
| There are quite a few splash-back options available | | | | better if both edges are perfectly symmetrical. Use a |
| but using wall tiles is certainly one of the cheapest, if | | | | spirit level to mark the centre of the wall as this is |
| done correctly it will look great and last for years, plus | | | | where we will apply our first wall tiles. |
| wall tiles are stain resistant, easy to clean and can | | | | |