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Install Ceramic Tile in Basement Bath Video 1 of a Series #tileshower #tilepro #tileexpert
Nov 7, 2025
This is video one of the playlist series.
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Hi, Tim Carter here from Ask the
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Builder. I'm getting ready to do a big
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series of shorts about tiling this
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bathroom. Let me show you what's going
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on. I'm standing outside the bathroom
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right now and this is in my son's
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basement. We've been working on this
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project. Well, it's a whole big giant
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basement remodeling. And anyway,
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we're going to do some ceramic tile
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here. It's really pretty cool stuff. And
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let me show you the tile first of all.
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[Music]
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It's this green. It's got kind of a
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modeled look. I'm trying to really cool
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stuff, but it's um
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you know, it's about 9 in long, about an
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inch and a quarter wide, and we're going
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to install it vertically. All right.
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It's going to be really cool. Kind of a
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subway look. So, there's going to be
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staggered horizontal joints. But, I want
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to show you some of the things that you
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got to think about before you can get
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started. First of all,
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this treated lumber platform, we had to
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make that to get the shower up for it to
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be able to drain by gravity out to the
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city sewer. So, the first thing I have
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to do is I've got to cover that with 1/4
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in cement board. All right. So, I'm
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going to do that in just a little bit.
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And what that's going to do when I put
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the tile on, the tile is going to be
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flush with this drywall face. So, I
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engineered that on purpose to work out.
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So, it's going to be really, really
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cool. You're going to see that. Um,
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another problem we have. Oh, let me show
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you where the tile's going to go. All
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right. So, the tile's going to go on
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this wall here to the corner around this
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wall here all the way up from the
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ceiling down to the floor and then
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around to the right side of the door.
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This wall here is going to stay painted.
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And of course, this here is going to be
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painted. But up here where it's gray,
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that's going to get tile as well. And
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the entire interior surround of the
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shower is going to get tile on, you
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know, all the way back even here. All
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right. So, that's what we're going to be
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doing. That's the scope of the job. And
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I'm going to do any number of shorts
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showing each particular step. So, bear
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with me. Uh there might be multiple
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shorts per day because we got a lot
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going on. And by the way, this is a wall
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hung toilet here. And of course, the
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vanity is going to go right here. And
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one of the things I'm going to do this
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afternoon right here, I need to put some
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thin set in because this cement board is
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about an eighth of an inch shallow, you
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know, recess from the drywall. So, I
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need to I need to feather that out. And
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uh we're going to show that as well. So,
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really cool. Um really cool job here.
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Wait till you see it finished. You're
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really really going to enjoy it. I can
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tell you that right now. If you got
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questions, then just put them in the
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comments and just bear with me. It's
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going to be a really, really neat video
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series. Thanks very much.
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