How To Tile A Shower Wall With A Shower Pan

Place tile spacers flat side down along the shower base where it meets the shower base flange.

How to tile a shower wall with a shower pan. This will give you a 1 2 overlap over the tile lip on your shower pan. Leave the shower pan in place if possible covering it with a blanket or towel to prevent damage. We have only looked at swanstone once client did not use it and i didn t see anything special about it. In the latter the bottom edge of the fiberglass wall overlaps the top edge or lip of the shower pan.

Temporarily place tiles along the wall sitting on top of the tile spacers. Any premade pan needs to have the tile flange regardless of what it is made of. This is not true for tiled shower walls however where the pan does not fit under the tiles. Tiling a shower is an advanced project but it can be done by any experienced diyer with the right approach and information.

The first step of understanding how to tile a shower is preparing your work area. If you plan to cut the bottom row of tile start your installation with the second row. Nobody wants a tile to fall of the ceiling and hurt someone or crack a shower pan tile. That way if you do have to cut tile to fit they ll be at the bottom where the tub or shower pan might be slightly out of level.

Also if you re tiling a ceiling in the shower x77 is a fantastic option. Wear heavy duty work gloves and remove the tile and backer board down to the studs. The tile does not come down completely to meet the fiberglass but stops slightly above it leaving a small gap. Follow steps for tiling a shower wall.

The fiberglass shower pan should work fine as long as it has a tile flange on it so that moisture can be controlled and it does not seep up into the tile wall. In this article and the video above you ll learn exactly how to install tile in a shower around a tub or around a shower pan and do it like a pro. For the vertical layout begin your pattern at the top of the wall so there ll be full uncut tile at the top. If your shower enclosure walls are not perfectly square or if you plan to install accent tiles the layout of these tiles becomes increasingly important.

Fiberglass shower pans are frequently installed with tiled walls in the shower. You should be aware the shower floor is slightly sloped to ensure that water runs into the drain. 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. Tiling a shower floor is pretty similar to tiling the shower wall.

Measure up from the bottom of the backer board the height of a tile minus 1 2.