How To Tile Shower Stall Walls

If you mix x77 per the directions use the correct trowel size back butter your tiles and use directional troweling your tiles won t slide down the wall.

How to tile shower stall walls.

Today s video shares tips on how to tile a shower wall specifically the main shower wall in a schluter kerdi shower. Leave out the row of tiles where the shelf will rest photo 8. Spread thin set along the first section of your tile row. Run a damp sponge over the backer board in the area you intend to tile.

Finish tiling the wall cutting the top row to fit as needed as you work on this how to tile a shower project. Tile the alcove sill and then the sides and top. Use a small amount of the excess mortar and spread it onto the back of a tile with the notched. As grout comes in a variety of colors you should have also decided on a grout color that suits your tile.

For tile spaced less than 1 8 inch apart use unsanded grout. For the vertical layout begin your pattern at the top of the wall so there ll be full uncut tile at the top. Turn over the trowel to the notched side and comb over in one direction. If so adjust your layout to have wider tile on the sides.

Slightly slope the sill tiles toward the shower for drainage by piling on a little extra thin set on the back side. Nobody wants a tile to fall of the ceiling and hurt someone or crack a shower pan tile. We ll deep dive into layout industry g. Center a tile horizontally along the length of the wall and do a quick dry fit to make sure you don t have a lot of tiny tile at the end of the rows.