Overcoming the tile soap dish dilemma

Simple as it seems, the corner soap dish caused a great deal of grief. It’s a naive assumption that presumes there are plenty of options available to suite your tile color and texture selection. This can prove to be an expensive assumption.

Other custom options are available, but can get quite expensive either because of the actual labor required, or the effect of the labor on the contractors schedule - perhaps even a combination of both.

Contractors work in mysterious ways. Yours might be more specialized in bathrooms and not caught off-guard by this detail. Such a contractor will no doubt include this issue in his quote before the schedule is set - that saves you money. But on the other hand, this contractor will most likely be the most expensive bid due to his specialty in the area.

When you start planning a bathroom remodel, the shower stall details will need hashing out. You can’t go wrong visiting www.bathroom-remodeling-pictures.com for your soap shelf detail needs.

Tile grout selection

Grout color selection is a little more important that just matching the color or decor of your remodeling project. Although color matching is the most obvious part of the grout selection process, there are other important factors to consider before choosing the grout colors for your bathroom or kitchen tile project.

Some of the reasons to select one grout over the other are because of clean-ability. Some grouts will hide dirt more than others, but dirt hiding is not the same as clean-ability. Also, some additives make a grout more robust than others, and these additives can be a standard feature of some grouts, while not in others.

Click for full details on selecting tile grout for your kitchen or bath remodeling project.

Bathroom tile installation

There’s been a lot of work leading up to bathroom tile installation, and that day is finally arrived at bathroom-remodeling-pictures.com. The bathroom floor tile will be done, along with the shower tile, and it looks like it will take a few days to complete.

Having gotten through all the water barrier preparation - things like tar paper, hot mop tar, and floating mortar bad, the tile will be installed beginning from the flooring and working up. Spaces will be used to maintain an equal distance between tiles, and then grout will be applied as the final step. See how it all works and these great pictures of the processes and progress at Bathroom Tile.

Bathroom shower tiles

There’s a new category added to bathroom remodeling pictures, this time, we’re on to the preparation for the shower stall tiling.

Once all the demolition is done, and wood framing is in place, it’s time to start the bathroom shower tiling priocess. The shower pan will get a hot-mop, then greenboard goes up. Once all that’s done, layers of more water proofing go in - tar paper, and finally the entier shower stall gets floated with cement.

This sounds like a lot, and it is, but with a few pictures, it all starts to come together to make a lot more sense. Be sure to check out the shower stall tiling feature of kitchen / bathroom remodeling pictures.