Installing Shower Pan And Tile Walls

Mark the locations of all studs along the top edge of the backer board.

Installing shower pan and tile walls. Place cardboard or another material into the shower pan base to protect its surface. For the vertical layout begin your pattern at the top of the wall so there ll be full uncut tile at the top. The space between the top of the shower tile and the ceiling is often painted waterproof drywall. The standard installation of a tile redi polyurethane shower pan starts with a framed in shower alcove that is sized for the shower pan.

Place a sheet of cement backer board against the studs starting with one inside corner. If so adjust your layout to have wider tile on the sides. Begin with the length of the shower. Installing a shower pan includes many steps such as cementing the floor to create a sturdy base and installing the shower walls.

Meanwhile install your floor tiles to the wall. Screw the shower pan rim into the wall studs using 1 1 4 inch screws through the pre drilled holes. Tiled shower walls receive a significant amount of water but hardly as much water as received by the shower pans. Put on mask and ear protection and as needed mark and cut a panel to fit using an angle grinder.

If the subfloor is wood it should receive a layer of cement board to protect the wood from the mortar bed under the pan. How to install tiled shower walls with a prefab base. Set the tile panels on the side walls with thinset the same way as for the back wall using the starter board. Press the shower pan base into the mortar adjusting it until the entire base is level.

And let that dry. What you really want to do is tile the walls starting with the second row and work up from there. Smooth the cut edge. Center a tile horizontally along the length of the wall and do a quick dry fit to make sure you don t have a lot of tiny tile at the end of the rows.

Sometimes the tile rises to meet the ceiling as well. And then finish by installing that final row of wall tiles so that it overlaps the floor properly. The first row near the floor should be reserved using a ledger or other space saver. Measure the width of the shower walls on either side of the door.

Screw each panel to the studs using 1 1 4 inch cement board drywall screws. In our project one wall is 31 inches and the other is 36 inches. For tile or shower panels drywall goes in first. Dry lay the panels and measure them to see where you need to make cuts.

Be sure the backer board sits on top of the lip of the. Measure your panels of cement backer board to fit the shower walls on each side.