How To Tile Shower Walls This Old House

Run a damp sponge over the backer board in the area you intend to tile.

How to tile shower walls this old house.

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. Sometimes you can remove the old tile with a hammer and chisel without damaging the backer board but that s often difficult. Use a reciprocating saw to cut any screws. Tile to reach sound drywall.

What s the best way to tile a shower wall. Use a small amount of the excess mortar and spread it onto the back of a tile with the notched side of the trowel. Rip out any old tile drywall or surrounds that were on the wall. Start by turning off the water to the shower so you don t accidentally ruin your work.

Plan on replacing the backer board. Recaulking between the tub and tile. The four main steps of the tile repair are. Unless you plan to replace the shower pan too leave it in place.

You should get the shower wall down to the bare studs. Also if you re tiling a ceiling in the shower x77 is a fantastic option. Caulking around the shower handle and tub spout. Nobody wants a tile to fall of the ceiling and hurt someone or crack a shower pan tile.

Use a hammer and chisel and work your way across to remove the tile. Bathroom course ht. 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. Up the wall so we had to remove three courses of 4 in sq.

Spread thin set along the first section of your tile row. And protecting the grout joints with silicone sealer.