How To Install A Ceramic Soap Dish In Shower

This is how to remove and install a tile soap dish holder step by step.

How to install a ceramic soap dish in shower. But you can add a corner shelf or another soap dish on existing tile. 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. Firmly press the dish into place and secure it with two or three strips of masking tape.

To keep the tile around the dish clean of epoxy create a perimeter just outside of your pencil outline with painter s tape. You should apply the polyurethane adhesive around the outer edge of the soap dish. Stop by a tile shop and pick up a flat back corner shelf unit about 20. In the center of the soap dish you can use the quick set epoxy glue.

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. 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. 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. Check to be certain the dish is level.

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. Remove the grout around the tile with a grout saw. After the dish is fully secured you will remove this perimeter tape along with the tape holding the dish in place.

Height above the shower floor. Once you ve decided which wall tile to replace with your soap dish you re ready to begin.