How To Tile Shower Walls This Old House

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.

How to tile shower walls this old house.

Spread thin set along the first section of your tile row. Use a small amount of the excess mortar and spread it onto the back of a tile with the notched side of the trowel. 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. Caulking around the shower handle and tub spout.

Use a reciprocating saw to cut any screws. Rip out any old tile drywall or surrounds that were on the wall. The four main steps of the tile repair are. And protecting the grout joints with silicone sealer.

Start by turning off the water to the shower so you don t accidentally ruin your work. Use a hammer and chisel and work your way across to remove the tile. Up the wall so we had to remove three courses of 4 in sq. What s the best way to tile a shower wall.

Restoring a tiled wall requires only a few hours work and about 35 for tools and materials. Run a damp sponge over the backer board in the area you intend to tile. Recaulking between the tub and tile. You should get the shower wall down to the bare studs.

Tile to reach sound drywall. Also if you re tiling a ceiling in the shower x77 is a fantastic option. Plan on replacing the backer board. Unless you plan to replace the shower pan too leave it in place.

Turn over the trowel to the notched side and comb over in one direction. Nobody wants a tile to fall of the ceiling and hurt someone or crack a shower pan tile.