How To Install A Soap Dish In Ceramic Tile Shower

This video shows us how to install a ceramic soap dish in our bathroom shower.

How to install a soap dish in ceramic tile shower.

Soap dishes are convenient especially in tiled showers that may not have other horizontal surfaces to set bath items on. On new tile walls the correct way to install a ceramic corner shelf is to set it directly into the thin set mortar during tile installation. Stop by a tile shop and pick up a flat back corner shelf unit about 20. Mix some grout and place this on the part of the soap dish you are attaching.

Because they are relatively light weight soap dishes are applied to tile with inexpensive epoxy. Attach a long strip of masking tape on the edge of the soap dish. Be generous with the amount so you know it will stay. If your tile wall in the shower is missing a soap dish you can fix the problem by removing a tile and replacing it with a soap dish tile that is the same size as your other tiles creating continuity throughout your shower.

If your tiled shower lacks a soap dish installing one requires the. Soap dishes need to be properly installed to keep water from getting behind them and into your shower walls. A loose or improperly installed soap dish can fall down and crack your tiles or even fall and injure someone while they are taking a shower. A soap dish applied to your shower or bath walls will improve the look of your bathroom these functional accents give your bathing area a feeling of permanence and they leave you more room on wire racks for shampoo and other bottles.

For tiled walls you ll need a porcelain soap dish and for the install you ll need to remove some tile. For a fiberglass or acrylic surround accessory soap dishes can be glued directly to the wall. Step 1 choose the right location. In this demonstration the instructor already had a slot in the shower tiles for the soap dish to go.

No drilling or stud finding is required. The best part of all.