How To Install A Soap Dish In Ceramic Tile Shower
Instead install a new soap dish high and dry on the wall just below and a little to the side of the showerhead.
How to install a soap dish in ceramic tile shower. Step 1 choose the right location. If you find that you are erasing the pencil outline you have gone too far. Be generous with the amount so you know it will stay. You should apply the polyurethane adhesive around the outer edge of the soap dish.
In many cases the back of the ceramic soap dish will be unglazed and porous making it ready for gluing without this preliminary step of sanding. Height of tile courses above the shower floor. Be careful when sanding the tile wall so that you are not extending your scratches beyond the soap dish s future footprint. Pick the top of a course that is closest to your desired height as the location of your shower soap dish.
It is easiest to install a soap dish directly on top of a course of tiles. A good rule of thumb. Mix some grout and place this on the part of the soap dish you are attaching. This video is also applying to how to install a ceramic soap dish.
Try to keep the soap dish out of the direct spray pattern of the shower head. With a section of fine grit sandpaper in the 180 to 100 range roughen up the back of the soap dish and the ceramic tile wall. In the center of the soap dish you can use the quick set epoxy glue. For tiled walls you ll need a porcelain soap dish and for the install you ll need to remove some tile.
A polyurethane adhesive combined with a quick set epoxy gel work well for bonding the soap dish in place. Attach a long strip of masking tape on the edge of the soap dish.