1.   Before you lay the tiles, make sure that the ground is completely flat.

2.   The floor must be completely even before we lay the tiles.

3.   To achieve a broadloom effect, lay the tiles with e arrows facing in the same direction.

4.   Or, lay new tile over the old with a thin-set mortar.

5.   When McClintock, the renovation columnist, worked as a builder, he found it annoying and time-consuming when a client wanted to help him lay roof tiles.

6.   He spent three years on the eastern Greek island of Kos, learning to lay tiles, until police expelled him in September.