Flooring Tile - best tile choice for basement bathroom double shower stall?

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I'm looking for a durrable (kid proof) bathroom tile that is the easiest to clean. I'm tileing the floor, pan, curb and 6x3 shower surround (up to 6' height).

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Smaller glazed tile on the floors will offer the traction you need in the shower. Larger format tiles on the walls will cover the walls with less grout lines. The tile itself is not going to get damaged as long as the kids don't play with hammers in the shower.

So, your shower, does it have a preslope under the liner? Did you only use pt lumber on bottom plates of wall framing and absolutly nowhere else? Your curb, is it constructed of brick and not pt lumber which will shrink, cup and warp as it dries out wrecking the shower curb? No fasteners penetrate the liner anywhere lower than a point 3" above the finished curb height, and you have poly sheeting or roofong felt behind your cement board, not greenboard, and the poly or felt is overlapping the pan liner a couple inches? You did not wrap a curb with cement board either, right?

Water will cause so much more damage than anything else could in an improperly built pan and stall.

wow...good thing we skipped the tiled shower (last minute) and went with a shower unit instead :)

We would have made a mess of the tile job, I'm sure.


We are just doing porceline tile on the bathroom floor now. Ebony in a checkerboard pattern of 12" matt and polished tiles.

We liked this tile so much, and could not find anything to go nicely with it in the shower, that we opted for a unit instead.

how did you prep the basement floor for tiles? Or did you go straight over top the existing slab?

We are laying down some mudd first because we have to raise the whole floor up to be level with a pipe we are trying to cover.