Shower Tile Wall Or Floor First

Should you tile a bathroom floor or wall first.

Shower tile wall or floor first.

Whats people lookup in this blog. Or difficult to remove mortar drops when tiling the wall. This may result in cracked tile. If you prefer doing the shower floor first you can avoid accidental accidents by covering the new floor.

When decorating the bathroom first install wall tiles then install floor tiles can effectively reduce the damage to the bathroom floor. Walls first floors last if anything its because walls tend to have white or lighter grouts than floors so if you do the floor first and grout with grey when you do the walls you will inevitably drop grout onto your lovely floor and cause light patches to your grout also you might drop a tile onto your floor and chip something get your walls out of the way all shining and clean and then do. Before you start setting tile take some measurements and see how the tiles will all lay out image 1. If you tile the floor first you may accidentally damage the new floor by dropping things on it.

Professional tile installation generally utilizes a method where the tile wall hangs over the tile floor. In our project we set the tile for the wall opposite the shower door first. Because if the floor tiles of the bathroom are laid first there will inevitably be some ornaments such as cement and wall tile fragments falling on the floor when the tiles are laid. The only way that this can happen without detailed planning and careful measurements is by installing the tile on the floor of the shower first.

If you do the walls first starting from a straight edge by the time you get to the top you can generally take the straight edges off and finish the wall and floor tile in the same day. Save time by setting several tiles at once. However professional tilers will disagree with this.