Tile Over Floor Drain
Tile on tile or as i say it.
Tile over floor drain. Now the floor is flat until about 18 around the drain and it s not an even slope around it either. When i do tile around a round floor drain i like a clean neat finish on the cut tile edges. I don t want to seal it off completely because it sits right in front of the washing machine and if it were ever to leak and this drain was sealed off i d be kicking myself for years. Large bodied tiles cannot accommodate the.
I ve been told before that you can just put your flooring right over top of these floor drains and they will still work fine. Many of our customer simply decide to cover the drain with a garage tile that looks just like the tile over the rest of the. They are setting 23 by 16 tile on the floors of the restrooms in a nice office building. They tiled the floor around the floor drains and left 2 tiles in a row out with the drain in the middle.
The floor is then patched over. Use a damp sponge to wipe up the excess grout. As much as i dispise pre mixed thinset for any application as a tile professional for 15 years i must strongly advise you to not give out advice to use pre mixed thinset within a shower. If the existing shower is correctly installed there is no way that the tiles on the floor of the shower can be level as pitch from the walls to the drain is required for the water to drain.
Quality tile like those carried by garage flooring llc are engineered to allow moisture to flow and evaporate. And it lasts for 20 years. Learn the largest tile industry secret to remodel your bathroom for just 200 bucks and 1 days work. Tiling a shower floor is pretty much the same as tiling any other floor except for the issue of the drain.
If you have a drain in your garage floor you will still be able to take advantage of it. I cut a slice off the pvc about 3 8 to 1 2 depending on how thick the tile and mortar will be. You want the tile to come right around the drain with 1 4 inch of space for a grout border. A channel is cut into the concrete slab near the foundation walls then drain tile piping is laid beneath the floor leading to a sump pit.
Use a small bodied tile such as mosaics or at the most 4 inch by 4 inch tiles when installing on a shower or other floor that has a slope to a drain. I measure the diameter of the drain and find a piece of pvc pipe that a little larger in diameter. I m concerned about how to handle this floor drain in the laundry room.