Tiling A Shower Wall Niche

One long niche on the shower head wall chest height.

Tiling a shower wall niche.

This live video shares quick tips on how to tile a shower niche. Shower niche kerdi board sn 12 in. Adequate measures must be taken to ensure that there is no leakage from the niche sill into the rest of the wall. Bathrooms really aren t complete anymore without a niche or several studding your shower wall to make an ingenious storage area for shampoo conditioner.

Plenty of space for larger bottles. Put those controls where the door is not under the shower head. By making the sill stick out by 1 16 he ll make the pencil tile hang out over the main tile by the same distance. I am 100 percent on board with team niche.

The key to building shower niches is to have a plan. As you can see in this picture steve is using 12x24 wall tile that s the same thickness as the sill. To ensure this tiling a shower niche is not as simple as it may look like. Lightweight for ease of installing.

Shower niche is a prefabricated shower niche made of schluter kerdi board. Controls on the opposite wall where you walk into the shower. A separate corner bench for. The sill tile should hang outside the niche by 1 16 if you ll be using pencil trim tile to frame the niche.

It can be a tricky task and may need to have a number of things done for having that perfect waterproof shower niche. Emily is 100 percent right on this one. Waterproof niche once installed is ready for tiling.