How To Tile Shower Walls This Old House

Recaulking between the tub and tile.

How to tile shower walls this old house.

And protecting the grout joints with silicone sealer. The four main steps of the tile repair are. You should get the shower wall down to the bare studs. 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.

Use a small amount of the excess mortar and spread it onto the back of a tile with the notched side of the trowel. Use a reciprocating saw to cut any screws. Use a hammer and chisel and work your way across to remove the tile. Tile to reach sound drywall.

Caulking around the shower handle and tub spout. Also if you re tiling a ceiling in the shower x77 is a fantastic option. Turn over the trowel to the notched side and comb over in one direction. The damage had spread about 9 in.

Nobody wants a tile to fall of the ceiling and hurt someone or crack a shower pan tile. Up the wall so we had to remove three courses of 4 in sq. Run a damp sponge over the backer board in the area you intend to tile. Spread thin set along the first section of your tile row.

Start by turning off the water to the shower so you don t accidentally ruin your work. Restoring a tiled wall requires only a few hours work and about 35 for tools and materials. The tiled wall shown on these pages is only a few years old but water had seeped in through grout joints and ruined the drywall. Plan on replacing the backer board.

Unless you plan to replace the shower pan too leave it in place. Rip out any old tile drywall or surrounds that were on the wall.