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HELP! Need ideas for tiling angled shower ceiling!

2 years ago

last modified: 2 years ago

Adding shower in a finished attic bathroom. There was no way to avoid an angled ceiling or a beam in the shower. This is how they finished off the beam and ceiling.

Now I am at a loss for how to tile this area. Whole shower with ceiling needs tile bc this beam area is directly across from shower head and will get wet, cannot leave as just painted.

My idea was either larger format tiles like 8x24 or 10x14 to cover the boxed in beam with as few grout lines as possible. Or doing small mosaic sheets over beam and ceiling area and then standard subway or 4x4 on walls.

Tile guy doesn't like either of these ideas (thinks mosaic won't adhere on ceiling) and wants to just do 6x6 tiles all over, but then the grout lines will definitely not line up from walls to this beam area and I think that will look awful.

And no matter which tile is used dealing with the corners of the boxed in beam is a challenge.

I need ideas and input!! Please help!

ETA - Just had another idea - penny tiles! They would have no orientation at all so seems like a great solution. If I can convince him to do a mosaic sheet on ceiling. Anyone else ever run into problems doing that?

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Joseph Corlett, LLC

2 years ago

Your corners aren't properly taped and mudded. You need a new tile guy.

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Lyndee Lee
2 years ago
I am not quite understanding the layout feom your photo but I know that many angles in a shower is difficult. If tiles can't line up due to angles, make it distinctly different, rather than just try to get close. Use a solid surface piece, a different size tile or a different layout of the tile. We once did one with an angled back wall so we set the back on the diagonal which was a nice touch in an otherwise basic and boring white 4x4 shower.
Kristan Milam
Original Author
2 years ago
Sorry for bad picture, didn't realized I didn't have a better one and guy is in there doing waterproofing today so can't take a better one til later.

But this is the angle up to the ceiling and is at the far end of the shower, opposite the shower head wall. The boxed in beam cuts across the corner to the side wall.

That was my thought about using small mosaic was that it would be totally different than the wall tile but he didn't think he could do mosaic sheets on the ceiling. I feel like I've seen plenty of pics of people doing so, but maybe they didn't know what they were doing and maybe it didn't hold up, who knows.
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Kristan Milam
Original Author
2 years ago
last modified: 2 years ago
He put kerdi membrane over everything, is that not ok? i ran up to see if i could snap another pic bc this one was from several days ago and now theres kerdi over all of it and i cant recall if corners got taped first or not
Kristan Milam
Original Author
2 years ago
Well now you're freaking me out. I was already having some concerns about the shower pan install and flood test.

Wonder what you or anyone thinks about the appearance here. To me the water was clearly well below the marked line (I took pic and then had to leave to drop kids off and when I got back he had arrived and already drained pan) but he insists there was no drop and my eyes are deceiving me. Unfortunately really hard to tell in picture, but I am 100% sure the water was at least a 1/2" below mark and honestly seemed more like an inch although I didn't measure bc was afraid to touch anything.

First pic was this morning about 24 hrs after filling

second pic was day before, sorry it's not great but I was really taking of the curb that I wanted fully covered but wonder about the actual pan as well
Lyndee Lee
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Put the brakes on and do another flood test if there is any question in your mind. You shoud be abe to do this overnight and not hinder progress if everything looks good.

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