Shower Tile Installation - How To Plan The Layout Of Your Shower

Tiling a shower involves preparing your walls by drawing the tile layout and grid setup on the back boards of those walls. Before tile installation, mark off where the tiles will go and secure the seams. Careful measurements will help you cut your tile to the ideal size. Work from the floor upward!

[johns]

Hands down the clearest explanation of gridding out your layout.

[jmcclary]

Why isn’t there a water proofing sYstem and red guarded or something similar. What did I miss?

[pachacutec]

Good video. The only question I have is about 'taping the corners'. What's the point of doing it if - for wood framing anyways - you should leave corners unconnected to allow for frame movements. I thought the best way to finish corners is to silicone the corner joints.

[brianmarcel]

THANKS MUCH' FOR SHARING^ "AWESOME JOB**

[BeppeRGDL]

Thanks for the video. Informative & useful. Why you guys in the states keep on messing about with the imperial system & all those pesky fractions is beyond me though!

[carlos.]

Do you tile the wall first or the floor I’ve heard it doesn’t matter. What’s your opinion

[geraldmcneal]

Question I have a small bathroom in my garage which has a shower 34x34 I purchased Green sheet rock . I want to put marble tile I was given for free do I need to rip out the drywall and install hardieback cement border to tile the shower wall? Or can I install the marble over the green sheetrock or shoould I install the cement bord over the drywall

[mkckfl]

I only use schluter. thanks for keeping me busy

[thetileshop]

DIY Tip of the Day: Learn how to layout tile in the shower

The Tile Shop DIY: How to Plan the Layout of a Shower

[biggreg]

Tar paper behind all hardy board for vapor/moisture barrier first.Silicone corners and all gaps. Tape and use water proof sealer like you were doing sheet rock. I don't use red guard there are better ones out there and two coats is suggested.

[UwU-rhil]

What if I want to have the whole tile in the corner and what ever length left on the edge to avoid cut the tiles for both corner and edge, how do I do this? Please help.

[brianlevine]

This has to just be a display at the Tile Shop. Everyone saying "waterproof"...uh yeah. But go into any tile shop and they have displays like this with no running water.

[SudsyUncle]

A "level line" is horizontal, whereas a "plumb line" is vertical.

[bed]

Taping and mudding (sp?)the vertical intersection between the side and back walls seems to me to be sort of pointless. Isn't this joint supposed to be caulked rather than grouted?

[ryanstetson]

You can't just have a straight Hardie board. You need a membrane. Maybe this is down south where there are no plumbing rules either.

[mnoble]

Don't you have to account for your grout line width in all the measurements and not just the dimensions of the tile?

[wangbungal]

just want to ask, those kind of tiles with built in grout lines, do I still need to put spacers?>

[luckyme]

Do you normally use a waterproof membrane like Redgard or Latricrete Hydroban over your Durock?  

[alexmanns]

Good tips whatever you bypass in the waterproofing membrane so will have to pass on this one.

[jamesjett]

At 2:48 you say your vertical grid is 26 3/16” (or whatever the number was) how did you get this number? What is this vertical and horizontal grid and how did you get them?