How To Install A Ceramic Soap Dish In Shower

Check to be certain the dish is level.

How to install a ceramic soap dish in shower.

You should apply the polyurethane adhesive around the outer edge of the soap dish. Broken soap dish holder tiles are very common and to replace it is very easy cheap a. Create an outline hold the soap dish against the tile and lightly draw an outline in pencil. Wait 24 hours then fill all the joints around the soap dish with grout.

But you can add a corner shelf or another soap dish on existing tile. If the shower is a shower tub combo you will want to put the soap dish lower on the wall usually 8 to 12 inches above the tub deck. After the dish is fully secured you will remove this perimeter tape along with the tape holding the dish in place. You will want to put the soap dish on top of the second row if you have 4 inch tile and on top of the first row if you have 12 inch tiles.

A polyurethane adhesive combined with a quick set epoxy gel work well for bonding the soap dish in place. Allow the grout to dry overnight before using the shower. Firmly press the dish into place and secure it with two or three strips of masking tape. 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.

Place masking tape over the tile. Height above the shower floor. The key for soap dish tile placement is to find a spot in the shower where you can easily reach the soap but water won t collect in the dish and make a mushy mess. To keep the tile around the dish clean of epoxy create a perimeter just outside of your pencil outline with painter s tape.

Once you ve decided which wall tile to replace with your soap dish you re ready to begin. Remove the grout around the tile with a grout saw.