Creative Tile

Been seeing a shift in trends lately, this is one I recently tiled.

Shower stall layers ......

Soft body wall tile with a medallion over the stove in Carlsbad.

Another one underway prepped for the hot mop and mortar float.

Lot of work left for the other contractors but my work is finally done here. Soft body wall tile with porcelain floors and Schluter trim in San Diego.

Soft body wall tile and porcelain mosaic backsplash in La Mesa.

It’s just as important how your shower looks on the inside as it does on the outside. A shower stall substructure is everything. Going with the original Old School method, a mortar floated hot moped shower is the best quality you can get. It’s tried and true to last for decades and is definitely a skilled craft. Some of the biggest advantages are the ability to fine tune the walls making them plumb, level, square, and flat. It also offers a heavy duty tar shower pan liner t...hat is far superior to the newer shower pan liner methods. But most important of all is the continued structure on the plain changes. It has a heavy gauge wire mesh that wraps in all the corners with no’s flat wall seams that dont overlap. Combined with the mortar coating making it a seamless structure that will have little to no movement. Unlike wall boards that that are not connected and move independently of each other as the house moves leading to cracked grout lines. ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES this is the real deal Tile method. It’s the hidden beauty behind the masterpiece.