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[alainplus]

I recently tiled the walls of a new shower room. I was wondering, how can I install a shelf on a tiled wall without removing any tiles? It will be used to hold shampoos and soaps.

 

[DHTiling]

You can drill tiles with the appropriate drill bits..plug and fix the brackets etc.....watch out for pipes and wires......dave...

u will probaly get some drill bits here....Tiling Tools, Professional Tiling Tools, Quality Tools for Tiling, Trade Tools for a Tiler, Tiling Tools UK, Tiling Tool Suppliers

 

[GazTech]

mark where you want the holes in the tiles to be for a rawlplug,level and with a pencil .Mark the holes,then take those tiles off the wall to make sure there is no pipework where you want the holes,if no pipes,re-tile and grout,then drill the holes in the tiles with an electric drill.Place rawlplugs in the holes and screw the shelf up using a screwdriver hope this helps
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Or you could always leave tiles on and use an electronic pipe/wire detector

 

[DHTiling]

would be cheaper to spend £10 and get a pipe/wire detector.....lol....dave..

 

[Fekin]

ermm... yeah, drill holes, lol :tounge_smile:

 

[enduro]

Drill the holes, if it leaks its the plumbers fault, he can get over that...oh got that around the wrong way its the plumber who says the tiler can get over that!!!!

 

[GazLC81]

Mark spot for holes then use one hand to drill, and use the other hand to cross your fingers! lol

Gaz

I think I should get a pipe/stud detector at some point...... i'm probably pushing my luck now! j/k

 

[grumpygrouter]

Go to 365 drills and by a kit from them. Makes light work of ceramics! Only problem I find sometimes is that the rawl plug can sometimes spin in the hole becasue the grippy bit is trying to bite into the tile and doesn't do a very good job!

 

[wayne]

tell the customer its the plumbers job to put acessories up.......... works every time and gets them on the plumbers back for once.

 

[GazTech]

tell the customer its the plumbers job to put acessories up.......... works every time and gets them on the plumbers back for once.

I like that one

 

[Dan]

Drill the holes, if it leaks its the plumbers fault, he can get over that...oh got that around the wrong way its the plumber who says the tiler can get over that!!!!

Nice one lol

I recently tiled the walls of a new shower room. I was wondering, how can I install a shelf on a tiled wall without removing any tiles? It will be used to hold shampoos and soaps.

How would you do it even by removing tiles?

I'd go in the room the other side of the wall where you want to hang the shelf and then take a few bricks out the wall or cut through the plasterboard and then scrape out the grout from the back of the tiled wall and push through some kind of home-made car ariel / coat hanger affair and just hang the shampoo bottles on that. Then build the wall back up and decorate it, bobs your uncle. Tell the mrs you dropped the shelf and get an extra lottery ticket just incase she boots you out.
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I just thought it had a few serious answers and needed a controversial opinion too.

 

[devonmark]

Mark spot for holes then use one hand to drill, and use the other hand to cross your fingers! lol

Gaz

I think I should get a pipe/stud detector at some point...... i'm probably pushing my luck now! j/k

i use a drill to drill, hand hurts