How To Install A Ceramic Soap Dish

This video shows us how to install a ceramic soap dish in our bathroom shower.

How to install a ceramic soap dish.

This is how to remove and install a tile soap dish holder step by step. Prepare the surface. Most soap dishes are originally installed using thinset as an adhesive. For tiled walls you ll need a porcelain soap dish and for the install you ll need to remove some tile.

With a section of fine grit sandpaper in the 180 to 100 range roughen up the back of the soap dish and the ceramic tile wall. Attach a long strip of masking tape on the edge of the soap dish. Step 1 choose the right location. But you can add a corner shelf or another soap dish on existing tile.

For a fiberglass or acrylic surround accessory soap dishes can be glued directly to the wall. In this demonstration the instructor already had a slot in the shower tiles for the soap dish to go. Mix some grout and place this on the part of the soap dish you are attaching. Instead install a new soap dish high and dry on the wall just below and a little to the side of the showerhead.

Be careful when sanding the tile wall so that you are not extending your scratches beyond the soap dish s future footprint. Broken soap dish holder tiles are very common and to replace it is very easy cheap a. Usually ceramic soap dishes can be cleaned up and made to look like new again. Be generous with the amount so you know it will stay.