How To Install A Ceramic Soap Dish In Shower

Remove the grout around the tile with a grout saw.

How to install a ceramic soap dish in shower.

This is how to remove and install a tile soap dish holder step by step. Create an outline hold the soap dish against the tile and lightly draw an outline in pencil. Place masking tape over the tile. In the center of the soap dish you can use the quick set epoxy glue.

Allow the grout to dry overnight before using the shower. Broken soap dish holder tiles are very common and to replace it is very easy cheap a. 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. You should apply the polyurethane adhesive around the outer edge of the soap dish.

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. 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. A polyurethane adhesive combined with a quick set epoxy gel work well for bonding the soap dish in place. But you can add a corner shelf or another soap dish on existing tile.

To keep the tile around the dish clean of epoxy create a perimeter just outside of your pencil outline with painter s tape. Stop by a tile shop and pick up a flat back corner shelf unit about 20. Wait 24 hours then fill all the joints around the soap dish with grout. Check to be certain the dish is level.

Firmly press the dish into place and secure it with two or three strips of masking tape. Once you ve decided which wall tile to replace with your soap dish you re ready to begin.