Prep Shower Floor For Tile

If you find hollows and valleys you must fill them with a self leveling underlayment.

Prep shower floor for tile.

Durable tile floors look sophisticated and are great for wet areas. How to prepare a floor for a walk in shower. Popping off old vinyl tile is fairly easy just use a heavy scraper and elbow grease. Use a tile nipper to shape the tiles around the drain.

Place the tiles let them sit for a few minutes and lightly wipe the thinset away from the joints. The rule of thumb is to use thinset mortar as your tile adhesive in wet areas. 1 inspect the floor from the basement or crawl space below it. Fill seams in the subfloor with caulk.

Waterproof the seams along the base of the shower walls where the walls meet the shower pan. A successful tile installation project requires a level surface. Scrape up as much adhesive as possible keeping the blade sharp with a sharpening stone as you go. Then attack the adhesive with a razor scraper photo 1.

After completing the prep work the floor should measure 1 1 4 inch thick the recommended thickness for proper tile installation. This is a dusty job so use plastic to cover your doorways wear a respirator that s rated for dust cover the floor with a drop cloth and make sure there s plenty of ventilation. Because this is a larger tile i m using a trowel. How to prep a shower wall for tile begin by removing the old tile or the fiberglass shower wall.

If you don t do it right the floor could crack and buckle. Check for dips in the floor by sliding a 4 foot to 6 foot straight edge in different directions all around the room. Need to find a pro for your tile shower floor installation. Walk in showers are large showers that can either be created from scratch or built using premanufactured pans and wall panels sold as kits.

If the adhesive is hard and brittle use a chopping motion to break it up. Mix the grout apply it with a rubber float let it dry for a few minutes before wiping the grout off the tiles surface. To install the tile i m mixing up some thinset mortar and applying it to the floor with a notched trowel. The most important part of a tile floor installation is prepping the subfloor.

Spread mortar around the opening of the drain hole then press the floor drain into place.