Tiling A Shower Walls Or Floor First

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Tiling a shower walls or floor first.

If you do the walls first starting from a straight edge by the time you get to the top you can generally take the straight edges off and finish the wall and floor tile in the same day. This may result in cracked tile. If you tile the floor first you may accidentally damage the new floor by dropping things on it. Opt for floor installation first because it s often a messy process.

In our project we set the tile for the wall opposite the shower door first. Whats people lookup in this blog. Save time by setting several tiles at once. Or difficult to remove mortar drops when tiling the wall.

The only way that this can happen without detailed planning and careful measurements is by installing the tile on the floor of the shower first. Walls first floors last if anything its because walls tend to have white or lighter grouts than floors so if you do the floor first and grout with grey when you do the walls you will inevitably drop grout onto your lovely floor and cause light patches to your grout also you might drop a tile onto your floor and chip something get your walls out of the way all shining and clean and then do. Professional tile installation generally utilizes a method where the tile wall hangs over the tile floor. If you prefer doing the shower floor first you can avoid accidental accidents by covering the new floor.

Plus if you do the floor first you can t work on it for at least a day to do the walls unless you use quick flex or someting similar. However professional tilers will disagree with this. On the ceiling and floor of the shower we used 2 x 2 tiles and on shower walls 2 x 4 tiles. Before you start setting tile take some measurements and see how the tiles will all lay out image 1.

As a matter of practice i usually do most of the walls first then the floor then bring the last row of wall tile down over the floor tile. Should you tile a bathroom floor or wall first. Shower floor or walls first. When decorating the bathroom first install wall tiles then install floor tiles can effectively reduce the damage to the bathroom floor.