Tile Shower Pan Or Walls First

When putting up your shower walls be sure to follow the proper installation procedures to create a watertight seam between the shower pan and wall.

Tile shower pan or walls first.

This may result in cracked tile. Tuscan seamclips blue horseshoe shims 1 16 sponge. Carpet knife for thin set removal. This allows you to nail up a level stick to hold the wall tiles.

This will create a small lip at the bottom of the shower walls where tiles or an acrylic surround would bump out leaving a gap. Turn over the trowel to the notched side and comb over in one direction. Later patch the holes with kerdi membrane band or kerdi fix. Shower floor or walls first.

If your shower pan is not level then the level line you created to mark the top of the first row will mean that some of your tiles need to be cut. For tile or shower panels drywall goes in first. Installing a shower pan includes many steps such as cementing the floor to create a sturdy base and installing the shower walls. Regardless of which you do first always run the floor under the wall tile.

Or difficult to remove mortar drops when tiling the wall. We re going to dive into the details. Use a small amount of the excess mortar and spread it onto the back of a tile with the notched. Always tile the back wall first in a shower tub so that you can hide the grout joints on the sides.

Run a damp sponge over the backer board in the area you intend to tile. Then tile the floor and then last row of the walls. You could use a score and snap tile cutter or a wet saw with a diamond blade. If you tile the floor first you may accidentally damage the new floor by dropping things on it.

Just leave off the bottom row. 1 4 1 4 1 4 square notched trowel. Spread thin set along the first section of your tile row. Here s your supply list.