How To Install A Ceramic Soap Dish In Shower

You should apply the polyurethane adhesive around the outer edge of the soap dish.

How to install a ceramic soap dish in shower.

Wait 24 hours then fill all the joints around the soap dish with grout. Once you ve decided which wall tile to replace with your soap dish you re ready to begin. Place masking tape over the tile. 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.

Allow the grout to dry overnight before using the shower. This is how to remove and install a tile soap dish holder step by step. But you can add a corner shelf or another soap dish on existing tile. 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.

Height above the shower floor. 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. Broken soap dish holder tiles are very common and to replace it is very easy cheap a. Create an outline hold the soap dish against the tile and lightly draw an outline in pencil.

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

Check to be certain the dish is level. Stop by a tile shop and pick up a flat back corner shelf unit about 20.