How To Install A Ceramic Soap Dish

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.

How to install a ceramic soap dish.

Mix some grout and place this on the part of the soap dish you are attaching. Broken soap dish holder tiles are very common and to replace it is very easy cheap a. Instead install a new soap dish high and dry on the wall just below and a little to the side of the showerhead. Step 1 choose the right location.

Most soap dishes are originally installed using thinset as an adhesive. Be careful when sanding the tile wall so that you are not extending your scratches beyond the soap dish s future footprint. Stop by a tile shop and pick up a flat back corner shelf unit about 20. But you can add a corner shelf or another soap dish on existing tile.

For tiled walls you ll need a porcelain soap dish and for the install you ll need to remove some tile. With a section of fine grit sandpaper in the 180 to 100 range roughen up the back of the soap dish and the ceramic tile wall. For a fiberglass or acrylic surround accessory soap dishes can be glued directly to the wall. Usually ceramic soap dishes can be cleaned up and made to look like new again.

In this demonstration the instructor already had a slot in the shower tiles for the soap dish to go. Be generous with the amount so you know it will stay. Attach a long strip of masking tape on the edge of the soap dish. Prepare the surface.