Tiling A Shower Floor Around Drain
You will have to remove one of the tiles so you can gauge.
Tiling a shower floor around drain. When you re tiling a floor with a drain in it whether it s a shower floor utility room or other setting you should first lay out the tile grid as if there isn t a drain there. How to tile a shower drain 1. Position the pieces so that the drain falls in the center of the. Video of the day step 1.
Pan liner drain and wallboard installed. Use a small bodied tile such as mosaics or at the most 4 inch by 4 inch tiles when installing on a shower or other floor that has a slope to a drain. I am using angle grinder and wet saw. Some folding will be required into the corners.
When tiling a shower one of the most important things to remember is that you need extra cuts in the tiles to make sure they follow the fall of the floor and that the water runs down. Ceramic tile pro llc 1 272 788 views 34 14. Set a piece of tracing paper over the shower drain. In this video i am explaining how to make perfect circular shape tile cuts around shower drain flange.
That way you can establish where the tiles are supposed to go in relation to the grid before you cut them around drain. Trace the outline of the drain on the face of the tiles. Set the circle on a piece of cardboard and trace around it with your. Here it is best to use premixed deck mud if.
Based on a 2 inch thick mortar bed the thickness of the mortar bed at a drain. Install your floor tiles on. Trace around the outer edge of the drain on the paper with a. How to tile a shower floor step 1.
The backer board should overlap the pan liner. Standard slope for a shower floor is 4 percent or 1 2 inch per every 12 inches from a wall to the drain. Under floor preparations for drainage and drain placement. Repair cracked grout tile over tile shower floor never seal again super grout additive duration.
Precise cuts are essential in this part of tiling. Cut out the circle from the tracing paper.