Tile Shower Pan Or Walls First

Carpet knife for thin set removal.

Tile shower pan or walls first.

Regardless of which you do first always run the floor under the wall tile. Installing a shower pan includes many steps such as cementing the floor to create a sturdy base and installing the shower walls. When putting up your shower walls be sure to follow the proper installation procedures to create a watertight seam between the shower pan and wall. We re going to dive into the details.

This will create a small lip at the bottom of the shower walls where tiles or an acrylic surround would bump out leaving a gap. You could use a score and snap tile cutter or a wet saw with a diamond blade. Or difficult to remove mortar drops when tiling the wall. For tile or shower panels drywall goes in first.

Just leave off the bottom row. If you prefer doing the shower floor first you can avoid accidental accidents by covering the new floor tile. The difference is that the diamond blade saw offers a more precise cut than the score and snap cutter. Here s your supply list.

Shower floor or walls first. Use a small amount of the excess mortar and spread it onto the back of a tile with the notched. Always tile the back wall first in a shower tub so that you can hide the grout joints on the sides. Then tile the floor and then last row of the walls.

Spread thin set along the first section of your tile row. Turn over the trowel to the notched side and comb over in one direction. Tuscan seamclips blue horseshoe shims 1 16 sponge. This allows you to nail up a level stick to hold the wall tiles.

1 4 1 4 1 4 square notched trowel. This may result in cracked tile. Run a damp sponge over the backer board in the area you intend to tile. Later patch the holes with kerdi membrane band or kerdi fix.