Installing a Hexagonal Mosaic Marble shower Floor, step by step
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Although this shower floor I used the Schluter Kerdi system with the proprietary drain grate assembly, I take the same approach to install any shower floor. The main difference is the drain where in other systems the drain grate would already be in place and it would be a simple matter of just cutting around it. In most cases I will simply dry lay the whole shower floor, cutting all the pieces in, when that is done I will pick up one or two rows and start to install with thinset. I will always leave some of the loose floor in place to leave a reference to be able to install the mosaic tile exactly where it needs to go. Schluter recommends Schluter Allset Or Schluter Set mortars, however In most cases a good quality Modified thinset should be used. All tile installed by Sal DiBlasi, Elite-tile Company, in the Boston North Shore area. This video contains affiliate links, which means I will receive a small commission if you click on the product link.
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Beautiful job. Thank you for taking the time to show us so clearly step by step and sharing all your experience. I learned a lot
Great info and tip with the dry fit! Thanks for sharing. The super speed tile taps made a very satisfying sound!
Iâm doing the exact same floor in my cabin shower floor. Thank you. This was extremely helpful.
Thanks for video. So helpful! Iâm about to lay down penny round on our bathroom shower floor. We already laid it all out and dry fit it but took it all out. I would have never thought to leave it all in there and just remove a few at a time to be sure it all stays lined up.
That bench is amazing!!
Thank you for sharing your valuable experience Sal. Your videos are fantastic, really appreciate the effort. Hope you are well sir. Have a great day.
Always a pleasure to watch Sal at work !
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Hi. I see many your videos and they helped me a lot. Your work is very good and the truth is that I do not know English. So I just have to see you. thank you. greetings from Argentina
A master to behold. Excellent vids. Thank you.
Excellent display of just what I am about to do !
Beautifully done.
As always. Beautiful work Sal
Thanks Sal!
Beautiful work sir. I respect your craft. Thank you for sharing.
This was really helpful! I'm just about to tile a shower almost exactly this. đ
How did it turn out. We are starting right now. Any issues with the marble floor? I'm nervous about it. People say it stains
đČ that bath is awesome. Now i want that floor in my new walk in shower. Thank you for inspiration. Nice detail work around drain
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Awesome work my fellow tradesman. I am in my 3rd year of carpenter apprenticeship and greatly appreciate these types of videos and look forward to God willing uploading my own as well. Thank you for sharing your gift/talent.
Awesome, thank you!
Nice one Sal!
Sal, thank you so very much for this video. Not only is it a pleasure watching your work, but the marble you worked with was almost as amazing as your craft.
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Nice job Sal!
Stunning shower design btw, the nook was the icing on the cake!
Thanks for watching my video.
Thank you so much for this video! It has helped me a ton! You are so great at what you do!
Glad it was helpful!
Amazing work as Always Sal! I am a professional installer Sal and I still watch your videos to better myself. I always pick up a tip or two from every your videos. Thank you for sharing
there is always more to learn, just got back from a Laticrete PTK training myself.
Nice work Sal. That bench looks amazing, would love to see a video on that.
absolutely a beautiful job! True craftsmanship. A rare thing these days.
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Nice maaahble.
Thanks for the video Sal!
Wow, thatâs amazing, looks beautiful!
Thank you! Cheers!
Very nice job. Good patients pays out well.
Love all of your work you are maestro of tiles.Thank you.
fantastic work!!!! I'm about to install a similar hex tile on a shower floor this morning. Nice to pre-game the install with coffee in here on youtube. Mine isn't going to go so smoothly or look anywhere near as good though. blah. tileing is hard.
I have mine all laid out and had a hell of a time getting all my spaces right. Used spacers. Can't believe you just eyeball it and it goes together so perfect. Man you're good.
Beautiful work
Beautiful. Love your work
Many many thanks
Nice work Sal. Done this tile many times and noticed how clean your inside corners are on the small hex.
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Thankyou for the video , these tiles are beautiful
Glad you like them!
Beautiful!
Awesome job Sal, ur the best!!!
Thanks for your excellent video
I feel like Iâve seen this video before, like itâs been re-uploaded? Either that or you do your jobs exactly the same each time LOL And Iâm not complaining, thanks for that. I have 2â hexagon tile Iâll be doing on my shower floor with the kerdi drain, so very similar to what youâve done here. So this video and videos like it are extremely helpful.
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Very nice job!!
SAL, Your The Guy ! Thanks
Thank you Sal! Great video.
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looks amazing. I learned a lot
Great to hear!
This was very helpful Sal. Thanks and greetings from northern New South Wales, Australia
Greetings from Boston Massachusetts.
Sal is by far the best guy on CZcams, heâs old school.
Thanks for watching my video.
Beautiful
Thank you
New viewer. Great Chanel Sal. Fellow contractor.
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Hope you do a video on the bench, looks awesome.
I would like to see a video about how do you seal the grout and how it supposed to feel when it's done?
@@satveerdhaliwal2078 with marble or other porous natural stone, you seal the tile before grouting. This prevents staining of the tile by the grout. You can then seal the grout after its set. With porcelain or ceramic tile, theres no need to pre seal the tile.
Check out Schluters website and there are tutorials on how to install their bench with 2 inch and half inch kerdi board and waterproof it with kerdi roll and Schluter set
Great video
Thanks!
Just what I needed. I was wondering how to keep my reference with exactly where the muddled tile goes, and when you troweled right up to the edge of the next tile it makes so much sense.
Here I go, thanks.
Glad I could help!
Great job. Would love to see how you cut those small tiles around the drain.
Nice video! Was wondering how you cut the edge of the tile so cleanly? Seems like it would be tricky with the saw as there is so little overhang on the edge to hold. Thanks so much!
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you have to show us how you cut round tile around the drain thank you
A beautiful job Sal. Very masterful. Love that niche area and that ceiling too.
Thank you kindly
Awesome job I have the same tile for my shower floor you made it look easy and I know itâs not. So I decided to do this myself everything in the video is exactly like my shower floor, drain exact I had to run out to my addition to see if you came and done it and of course itâs still not done. Lol haha great job great video thanks for the education. God Bless Carl from Florida.
Thanks, glad it helped
Very nice thank you. What size trowel do you use
Wow!
What a great Tut, Sal. Thank you! How much expansion/contraction area do you leave around the outside edge of the floor?
20:16 Schluder's video show they even backbuttered grate back side in advance before placing assembly to the floor
You did a great job. I just finished doing a job yesterday using the same tile but the back of the tile packet said to use a 1/4 x 3/16 V notch trowel, so I did, now seeing that you used a square trowel makes me worried that the mortar wasn't deep enough or substantial enough to hold the tile down. I will have to check it tomorrow.
Also with so many little tiles I noticed afterwards that there were full lines that butt up together with the same equal space between them, đ« my mistake of course..
if that was the manufacturer recommendation you will be fine just make sure to use the right thinset
Watching an artist at work without a bunch of music is so satisfying. I learn so much from these videos. Sal, how big is this shower roughly? Nice size, giving me ideas...
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Beautiful job Mr. Sal donât know have a video on how you to do the seat.
Alot of people probably think that it's sped up at certain parts.
It's not.
When you do tile for 35 years, you can pat the tiles down like that.
Thank you so much for making this video! I will be giving this a go for my client next week.
How did you safely cut the small tiles for around the drain though?
Very helpful video, but I do have one question. Most videos I've seen have recommended using a v-notch trowel for mosaic tyle. I see you are using a square notch. Is there really a big difference? What would be the advantage of one over the other?
how to you apply the motor on the edges where a laid sheet matches an unlaid sheet. How do you get the adhesive in those small areas?
Great video. Thank you for sharing your detailed work.
Question: Is there a grout joint where the tile meets the actual drain or do those cut pieces go right up against the drain, no grout? I'm thinking there's no grout joint because water could potentially fall through the grout joint before it made it to the actual drain, right?
Thank you.
I will usually leave a small grout joint there, but fill it with grout, this is a sealed system the amount of water absorbed by the grout and mortar will dry in between uses.
Sal. What size notch trowel should you use for Marble 12"x12" SHEET tile. Installed on a bathroom floor over Hardi Board. Tile Such as what you have used here but the pattern is more like a 3 inch clover repeat pattern with an border inlay with in it.
TY in advance.
I don't know if you have done any videos of the topic. But would you ever do one of a roman bath tub or pool if the job comes up?
Very informative video, thank you for putting it all together.
Question: I'm in Norwood MA and have a small crew installing the same exact marble tile in my bathroom. They're not done yet but so far I'm seeing a lot of tiles abutting each without a space between. Should I be concerned or trust the process?
Not knowing anything about the quality of the tile, and the installation conditions, it is hard to say what that means, but grout lines should be kept consistent as much as possible.
This helped tremendously: doing my first hex tile shower floor. But what I REALLY want to know is: where can I find one of those rapid-fire speed-squeegee tampers you use in this video!?
Rubber backed float from Home Depot
Beautiful work! If you were using 2" hex tile on a 12"x12" mesh backer would you pre-cut the ends off (1:48) that would be placed next a tub border? Thanks again!
Anywhere the tile will be seen, you want a clean even line, it is often easier and quicker to cut the ends of rather than try to add in the cut pieces one at a time.
Great craftsmanship. May I ask why you didn't use Schleuter edging? Do you need it at all really since it looks like you just butted the tiles against one another.
Only been doing tile for a year and glad to see Iâve ended up doing the same technique as you use. Definitely learnt a thing or two. I always tried squaring up the drain to the walls and would end up with a centered drain but diff size pieces around it. My question is why would I want to use a brush like that on marble tiles? Wouldnât you scratch it? Granted itâll get scratch when homeowners wash it but I donât want to deliver the product scratched.
Do whatever it takes to get the job done. Vinyl brush will generally be safe on marble.
@@SalDiBlasi Thanks for the reply. Iâll keep that in mind and keep watching your videos. Just subscribed aswell
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Awesome. Sal can you post the link on how to lay the Kerdi membrane please.
Here you go czcams.com/video/Z2p5ZBJHp0k/video.html
Iâm installing tile in a small bathroom and the schluter has some humps I tried to level the best I could, would you suggest leveling on top of it before I lay tile? Same type you are laying here maybe little bigger pattern
How long do u usually take to get a shower protect done ? Only the shower not the complete bathroom?
Sal great video like always. I wanted to ask you what you think about using a 24âx48â tile on a shower ceiling ? Ceiling has been reinforced To be sturdy before backer board is installed.
If you can install it, why not.
What thinset you'd recommend for installing marble mosaics with mesh on the back?
Thank you!
Really well done vid Sal. Do you have a video for the seat and niche build?
I have almost 1000 videos, I know I have covered it several times.
good work bro, looks good. did you make the niche yourself or was it prebuilt from Schluter?
Excellent work. What type of mortar should be used on top of a schluter pan to set tile?
Any of the Schluter mortar, or a premium unmodified from another company.
wondering what grout you used on the flooring, sanded,(which would be hard to fill in the grout lines) or non-sanded (which they say NOT to use on floors because it will crack) I have 1/16 inch grout lines and need something for heavy traffic area grout. Awesome video!!
For 1/16 you have to use unsanded, not recommended for flooring esp wet application. Check out 3/32" spacing, you can use sanded grout.
Sal where did you get this marble tile at? And what is it called?
Sal, Great video ⊠complete and detailed! I have a question about the trowel you use for the mosaic tile. I think you said it was a 1/4" square trowel. I'm doing my half bath with the same kind of tile. The tiles are made by Daltile. Daltile's recommendation is a 3/16" V-notch. I've never done this before and ask if the 1/4" would be best? Thanks for your consideration.
Depends on the tile, some are thicker with a deep pattern on the back of the tile, so a bigger trowel is needed, some mosaic tiles are thinner and have a flat back, so a smaller trowel will work. Try the smaller trowel first, check your coverage, if needed move to the bigger trowel.
Yes, I just did 1/2 of mine with a 1/4 square and wish I had used the 3/16 b/c I got SO much thinset in the joints...took me longer to clean than to lay the 12 tiles. Definitely going to try the 3/16 for the other half and hopefully save some time on the cleaning/oozing. I am using a flat-backed ceramic 1.5" mosaic with no mesh so coverage-tiles are held together with the blob of glue between them-should be fine with the 3/16. Thanks Sal for the great videos and taking the time to respond!
Nice work. I did the same tile in my bathroom. Had some trouble with little dots of grout left behind on the marble. Should the tile be sealed before grouting
Yes.
Hi Sal, I'm getting my bathroom renovation done. My installer finished laying out the same hexagon tiles on the shower floor and finished the grout. I was checking it and felt many sharp edges of the tiles in the floor...what can I suggest to my installer to convince him to finish it properly. Thanks. Looking forward to hearing from you asap. Thanks
What grout did you use on the floor?
I want to see who tiled the ceiling in this shower. I take my hat off to that guy.
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Hey Sal, took me a while to find the answer I was looking for but I knew you would have it.
Just wondering how to lay mosaics on a shower floor without all the thin set squeezing through the joints and then having to scrape it all out.
Trowel size and nice neat even troweling, of course! đđ
Just trying to do things correctly, and youâre the man to show me how.
You got my sub! Thanks Sal.
For thin tiles it will also help to knock down the ridges without removing thinset.
Nice looking work.. One question.. do the new drain systems no longer utilize the drain holes at the bottom of the drain, where you're supposed to put pebbles to provide a way for water that seeps under the tile layer to escape? Seemed like you pack the the holes at the bottom of the drain with mortar.
This is a sealed system, no weep holes.
Ok, appreciate seeing this as I'm about to do my own shower with the same pattern for the floor, but is the seem where the wall and floor meet just filled with thin set/grout? or filled with caulking? I know most have said that the gap is for any type of movement with the pan but haven't seen any real answer?
Newbie question - are you eyeballing the space between sheets instead of using spacers? Or do mosaics butt together with correct space already?
Eyeball, but use whatever method gets it done correctly.
What size trowel are you using? How deep are the grooves? Also, what brand of thinset you use?
That came out great! Do you have any recommendations for cutting the tile with a tile saw that's set up like a table saw (from below)? The tiles keep lifting when contacting the blade.
You need a good quality saw, those cheap table saws are junk
Hi Sal! I'm a new subscriber. I'm wondering why you're brushing away the grout that's crowding in between the tile if you're going to cover over everything in grout anyway. Is it for the aesthetic of the final product, or will the grout in between cause damage once the grout is laid on top? Hope that makes sense. :-)
Thanks for all the work you put into your videos!
Clean out the thinset to make room for grout.
@@SalDiBlasi Thank you!