Installing Ceramic Tile Around Floor Drain

They tiled the floor around the floor drains and left 2 tiles in a row out with the drain in the middle.

Installing ceramic tile around floor drain.

Step 5 let the tiles set overnight. Step 7 set the last tiles over the drain without mortar positioning them as if the drain wasn t there. 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.

By placing the pipe alongside the footing you lower the water table below your basement floor another 6 8 inches. Step 6 cut the and install the partial tiles near the walls using your wet saw. Let the tiles set overnight. I am using angle grinder and wet saw.

Lay all the full tiles stopping around the shower drain wherever a full tile won t fit. Put spacers between them. They are setting 23 by 16 tile on the floors of the restrooms in a nice office building. In this video i am explaining how to make perfect circular shape tile cuts around shower drain flange.

Lay all the full tiles that will fit leaving clear a perimeter of floor around the drain. 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.