Installing A Tile Shower

If you plan to cut the bottom row of tile start your installation with the second row.

Installing a tile shower. If your shower enclosure walls are not perfectly square or if you plan to install accent tiles the layout of these tiles becomes increasingly important. Set tiles on shower side walls. This will give you a 1 2 overlap over the tile lip on your shower pan.

Complete the shower walls. Build an alcove bench and shelf into the shower space with these advanced tiling techniques and turn your bathroom into a showplace. Installing your tiles take all your measurements and do a dry run to lay the tiles out before getting started.

Setting the cut pieces. Installing a tile shower in your bathroom. Complete the shower floor.

Sanded grout is difficult to get into small joints so adding non sanded grout helps thin it out so it can be applied more easily and aids application on walls. Set tiles on shower wall. Cut the tiles and dry fit them again to ensure a snug fit.

Draw a leveled line where the bottom of the second row will fall. If the shower base is uneven tiles will have to be cut to fit the last row. When installing cut pieces apply the thinset to the back of each tile.

Setting the mosaic border. Showers used to be simple boxes for fear that any. Grout the shower walls.