Installing Ceramic Tile Around Floor Drain

Drain tile pipes work best when placed alongside a foundation footing instead of on top of the footing.

Installing ceramic tile around floor drain.

Let the tiles set overnight. Now the floor is flat until about 18 around the drain and it s not an even slope around it either. Install your floor tiles on the shower floor by spreading down thinset mortar with a notched trowel and pressing the tiles into place. Put spacers between them.

When should drain tile be installed. 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. 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. Large bodied tiles cannot accommodate the. By placing the pipe alongside the footing you lower the water table below your basement floor another 6 8 inches. Step 5 let the tiles set overnight.

In this video i am explaining how to make perfect circular shape tile cuts around shower drain flange. Step 7 set the last tiles over the drain without mortar positioning them as if the drain wasn t there. I am using angle grinder and wet saw.