Installing Ceramic Tile Around Floor Drain

They are setting 23 by 16 tile on the floors of the restrooms in a nice office building.

Installing ceramic tile around floor drain.

By placing the pipe alongside the footing you lower the water table below your basement floor another 6 8 inches. Lay all the full tiles that will fit leaving clear a perimeter of floor around the drain. Step 6 cut the and install the partial tiles near the walls using your wet saw. Large bodied tiles cannot accommodate the.

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. Let the tiles set overnight. Drain tile pipes work best when placed alongside a foundation footing instead of on top of the footing. Step 7 set the last tiles over the drain without mortar positioning them as if the drain wasn t there.

They tiled the floor around the floor drains and left 2 tiles in a row out with the drain in the middle. Now the floor is flat until about 18 around the drain and it s not an even slope around it either. Lay all the full tiles stopping around the shower drain wherever a full tile won t fit. I am using angle grinder and wet saw.

Install your floor tiles on the shower floor by spreading down thinset mortar with a notched trowel and pressing the tiles into place. When should drain tile be installed. In new construction install the drain tile immediately after the footing forms are removed.