

Side note: I didn’t actually set that bucket of water on the tiles while the mortar was still wet. That’s where I had to leave things the at the end of the first day because I had to let these dry before I could walk on them to reach the areas on the level part of the shower floor.

With that row in place, I did the four rows perpendicular to that first row, starting with the row closest to the drain, and working my way towards the line where the sloped floor meets the level floor. Then I finished up that row of tiles working my way from the beginning of the slope and going towards the shower head/drain wall.

So I started in the doorway right on the edge of the sloped floor, and worked my way towards the wall.
TILED SHOWER FLOOR INSTALL
And because I needed a grout line following the line where the level shower floor meets the sloped shower floor (you can see where I marked that line in the picture below), that also affected the order in which I had to install the tile. It was a two-day project (not including grouting, which still needs to be done) because (1) the shower is so big, and (2) the order in which I had to tile.īecause the shower is curbless, and I wanted whole tiles (i.e., no cut tiles) meeting together in the doorway with the brushed brass Schluter strip between them, I had to start at the entrance to the shower. I had such a hard time with tiling the bathroom floor last week, so I took the weekend off from all house-related projects and then got started tiling our large curbless shower floor on Monday.
