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Tile Main Shower Walls

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The Most DIFFICULT Bathroom Build I've Ever Done

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What happens here

Begin installing the large format grey porcelain tiles on the shower walls, starting from a plumb corner and working upwards. Apply thin-set mortar to the back of each tile ('back-buttering') using a notched trowel, ensuring full coverage for maximum adhesion. Press each tile firmly onto the Kerdi membrane, wiggling it slightly to ensure optimal contact. Use tile leveling spacers to maintain consistent grout lines (the presenter used yellow wedge-style spacers) and ensure a flat, even surface across the wall. Continuously check for level and plumb as you proceed. For the angled walls, measure and cut tiles precisely to fit the slope, paying attention to the pattern if applicable. The presenter notes the importance of back-buttering for vertical installations to prevent tiles from sliding.

Goal: Install the main porcelain tiles on the waterproofed shower walls, carefully back-buttering each tile and using leveling spacers.

Tools and materials

  • Drill with Mixer Paddle
  • Ladder/Scaffolding
  • Level
  • Measuring Tape
  • Mixing Bucket
  • Notched Trowel
  • Porcelain Tiles (Grey)
  • Thin-set Mortar
  • Tile Cutter/Wet Saw
  • Tile Spacers (Leveling System)

What they say

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Let's get into it. We've got our first corner piece here angle. I have a pretty good feeling about it. If you want like a quick way to do it, the way I do it is find the measurement from here to here, and then find the measurement from here to there, connect your lines, and you should be good to go. I'm demonstrating you do it. There are little tools out there you can buy to help your life more quick and easier, but that's how I kind of figured it out in my brain. Most important part with showers, back butter your tile. This is the This is the key to the sauce that's going to make this thing stay on and not fall off of you, fall off of your wall after a couple years of using That's not bad at all. Oh, that's not bad at all, folks. And this is how we butt up perfectly to where they're going to have a nice tight seam. Hell yeah.

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