Installing Ceramic Tile Around Floor Drain

When should drain tile be installed.

Installing ceramic tile around floor drain.

Install your floor tiles on the shower floor by spreading down thinset mortar with a notched trowel and pressing the tiles into place. Large bodied tiles cannot accommodate the. Put spacers between them. They are setting 23 by 16 tile on the floors of the restrooms in a nice office building.

Lay all the full tiles stopping around the shower drain wherever a full tile won t fit. In this video i am explaining how to make perfect circular shape tile cuts around shower drain flange. Drain tile pipes work best when placed alongside a foundation footing instead of on top of the footing. Use a small bodied tile such as mosaics or at the most 4 inch by 4 inch tiles when installing on a shower or other floor that has a slope to a drain.

They tiled the floor around the floor drains and left 2 tiles in a row out with the drain in the middle. Step 6 cut the and install the partial tiles near the walls using your wet saw. Let the tiles set overnight. Lay all the full tiles that will fit leaving clear a perimeter of floor around the drain.

Now the floor is flat until about 18 around the drain and it s not an even slope around it either. By placing the pipe alongside the footing you lower the water table below your basement floor another 6 8 inches. Step 7 set the last tiles over the drain without mortar positioning them as if the drain wasn t there.