Installing Ceramic Tile Around Floor Drain

I am using angle grinder and wet saw.

Installing ceramic tile around floor drain.

They are setting 23 by 16 tile on the floors of the restrooms in a nice office building. Lay all the full tiles that will fit leaving clear a perimeter of floor around the drain. In new construction install the drain tile immediately after the footing forms are removed. Lay all the full tiles stopping around the shower drain wherever a full tile won t fit.

Step 7 set the last tiles over the drain without mortar positioning them as if the drain wasn t there. By placing the pipe alongside the footing you lower the water table below your basement floor another 6 8 inches. Large bodied tiles cannot accommodate the. Step 5 let the tiles set overnight.

Install your floor tiles on the shower floor by spreading down thinset mortar with a notched trowel and pressing the tiles into place. They tiled the floor around the floor drains and left 2 tiles in a row out with the drain in the middle. Put spacers between them. 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.

Let the tiles set overnight. Now the floor is flat until about 18 around the drain and it s not an even slope around it either. In this video i am explaining how to make perfect circular shape tile cuts around shower drain flange.