Tiling A Shower Wall Niche

One long niche on the shower head wall chest height.

Tiling a shower wall niche.

The sill tile should hang outside the niche by 1 16 if you ll be using pencil trim tile to frame the niche. Bathrooms really aren t complete anymore without a niche or several studding your shower wall to make an ingenious storage area for shampoo conditioner. Tips on tiling a shower niche. This live video shares quick tips on how to tile a shower niche.

Waterproof niche once installed is ready for tiling. Adequate measures must be taken to ensure that there is no leakage from the niche sill into the rest of the wall. As you can see in this picture steve is using 12x24 wall tile that s the same thickness as the sill. Shower niche kerdi board sn 12 in.

Preformed shower niches also make this. Shower niche is a prefabricated shower niche made of schluter kerdi board. Put those controls where the door is not under the shower head. I am 100 percent on board with team niche.

A separate corner bench for. 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. Controls on the opposite wall where you walk into the shower. Plenty of space for larger bottles.

The key to building shower niches is to have a plan. To ensure this tiling a shower niche is not as simple as it may look like. Lightweight for ease of installing.