How To Tile A Shower Wall With A Shower Pan

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 a shower wall with a shower pan.

For the vertical layout begin your pattern at the top of the wall so there ll be full uncut tile at the top. You should start from the bottom and move upward. Smooth the cut edge. Begin with the length of the shower.

How to tile a shower wall 1. Mark your tile layout. If so adjust your layout to have wider tile on the sides. Put on mask and ear protection and as needed mark and cut a panel to fit using an angle grinder.

Place the first row of tiles along the wall and. Once you ve applied thinset to a section start in the center and place each tile carefully pressing each tile into the wall and wiggling it back a forth to ensure a consistent bond with the wall. Screw each panel to the studs using 1 1 4 inch cement board drywall screws. As most surfaces are rarely entirely level you may have to cut some of your tiles to make sure your first course of tiles is level.

Nobody wants a tile to fall of the ceiling and hurt someone or crack a shower pan tile. Measure your panels of cement backer board to fit the shower walls on each side. 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. Also if you re tiling a ceiling in the shower x77 is a fantastic option.

Use a level to measure where you will lay your first course of tiles.