How To Tile Shower Walls This Old House

Rip out any old tile drywall or surrounds that were on the wall.

How to tile shower walls this old house.

Unless you plan to replace the shower pan too leave it in place. 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. Use a hammer and chisel and work your way across to remove the tile.

You should get the shower wall down to the bare studs. Restoring a tiled wall requires only a few hours work and about 35 for tools and materials. Nobody wants a tile to fall of the ceiling and hurt someone or crack a shower pan tile. Start by turning off the water to the shower so you don t accidentally ruin your work.

Use a reciprocating saw to cut any screws. And protecting the grout joints with silicone sealer. Sometimes you can remove the old tile with a hammer and chisel without damaging the backer board but that s often difficult. Recaulking between the tub and tile.

Caulking around the shower handle and tub spout. Up the wall so we had to remove three courses of 4 in sq. Bathroom course ht. The four main steps of the tile repair are.

What s the best way to tile a shower wall. The tiled wall shown on these pages is only a few years old but water had seeped in through grout joints and ruined the drywall. Also if you re tiling a ceiling in the shower x77 is a fantastic option. The damage had spread about 9 in.

Tile to reach sound drywall. Use a small amount of the excess mortar and spread it onto the back of a tile with the notched side of the trowel.