How To Install A Ceramic Soap Dish In Shower

Allow the grout to dry overnight before using the shower.

How to install a ceramic soap dish in shower.

Once you ve decided which wall tile to replace with your soap dish you re ready to begin. But you can add a corner shelf or another soap dish on existing tile. 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.

Place masking tape over the tile. 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. Create an outline hold the soap dish against the tile and lightly draw an outline in pencil. Remove the grout around the tile with a grout saw.

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. Firmly press the dish into place and secure it with two or three strips of masking tape. This is how to remove and install a tile soap dish holder step by step. Stop by a tile shop and pick up a flat back corner shelf unit about 20.

You should apply the polyurethane adhesive around the outer edge of the soap dish. 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. Check to be certain the dish is level. Wait 24 hours then fill all the joints around the soap dish with grout.

To keep the tile around the dish clean of epoxy create a perimeter just outside of your pencil outline with painter s tape. A polyurethane adhesive combined with a quick set epoxy gel work well for bonding the soap dish in place.