How To Install A Ceramic Soap Dish In Shower

Place masking tape over the tile.

How to install a ceramic soap dish in shower.

Check to be certain the dish is level. 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. In the center of the soap dish you can use the quick set epoxy glue. But you can add a corner shelf or another soap dish on existing tile.

Wait 24 hours then fill all the joints around the soap dish with grout. After the dish is fully secured you will remove this perimeter tape along with the tape holding the dish in place. 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. A polyurethane adhesive combined with a quick set epoxy gel work well for bonding the soap dish in place.

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. Allow the grout to dry overnight before using the shower. 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.

To keep the tile around the dish clean of epoxy create a perimeter just outside of your pencil outline with painter s tape. Firmly press the dish into place and secure it with two or three strips of masking tape. Remove the grout around the tile with a grout saw. Stop by a tile shop and pick up a flat back corner shelf unit about 20.

This is how to remove and install a tile soap dish holder step by step. Height above the shower floor.