Shower tiles - lay with angle cuts or just a fall?

melzein

Just want to get some input and advice for my shower floor tiles. The original tiles did not have enough slope to drain the water properly and it would pool away from the drain. I decided to rip up the tiles and start again. I am thinking of screeding the shower base with enough slope and laying the tiles again with angles cut as per the tape to have the water flow toward the drain.

Options would be:

1. Screeding the shower base with enough slope and laying the tiles again with angles cut as per the tape to have the water flow toward the drain.

2. Screed the base and lay tiles without the angles cut

The shower is a step down and tiles used are 600x300. Dimensions of shower are 1500 x 720. Blue lines show how the tiles would be laid and the red indicates the possible angle cuts.

Any help would be much appreciated.

JacobZ

Hi @melzein,

A warm welcome to the Bunnings Workshop community, it is fantastic to have you with us.

I can't say I have ever tiled like this myself as it is a fairly advanced technique, but every shower I've seen with a central drain has relief cuts like this in the tiles.

When you screed a shower to create a four-way-fall, these cuts allow the change in plane required for the tiles to sit flat. By making these cuts, you are essentially hiding the transition of the slope in the grout line where this cut runs.

I'm fairly confident that option 1 is the only option that would work when using tiles of this size.

Let me know what you think, and if you have further questions, please don't hesitate to ask.

Jacob