Thanks for video. So helpful! I’m about to lay down penny round on our bathroom shower floor. We already laid it all out and dry fit it but took it all out. I would have never thought to leave it all in there and just remove a few at a time to be sure it all stays lined up.

Beautiful job. Thank you for taking the time to show us so clearly step by step and sharing all your experience. I learned a lot

Hi. I see many your videos and they helped me a lot. Your work is very good and the truth is that I do not know English. So I just have to see you. thank you. greetings from Argentina

Amazing work as Always Sal! I am a professional installer Sal and I still watch your videos to better myself. I always pick up a tip or two from every your videos. Thank you for sharing

Awesome work my fellow tradesman. I am in my 3rd year of carpenter apprenticeship and greatly appreciate these types of videos and look forward to God willing uploading my own as well. Thank you for sharing your gift/talent.

absolutely a beautiful job! True craftsmanship. A rare thing these days.

I’m doing the exact same floor in my cabin shower floor. Thank you. This was extremely helpful.

Sal is by far the best guy on KZfaq, he’s old school.

Just what I needed. I was wondering how to keep my reference with exactly where the muddled tile goes, and when you troweled right up to the edge of the next tile it makes so much sense. Here I go, thanks.

Hope you do a video on the bench, looks awesome.

Stunning shower design btw, the nook was the icing on the cake!

This helped tremendously: doing my first hex tile shower floor. But what I REALLY want to know is: where can I find one of those rapid-fire speed-squeegee tampers you use in this video!?

A master to behold. Excellent vids. Thank you.

Always a pleasure to watch Sal at work !

This was really helpful! I'm just about to tile a shower almost exactly this. 👏

Awesome job I have the same tile for my shower floor you made it look easy and I know it’s not. So I decided to do this myself everything in the video is exactly like my shower floor, drain exact I had to run out to my addition to see if you came and done it and of course it’s still not done. Lol haha great job great video thanks for the education. God Bless Carl from Florida.

Alot of people probably think that it's sped up at certain parts. It's not. When you do tile for 35 years, you can pat the tiles down like that.

This was very helpful Sal. Thanks and greetings from northern New South Wales, Australia

You did a great job. I just finished doing a job yesterday using the same tile but the back of the tile packet said to use a 1/4 x 3/16 V notch trowel, so I did, now seeing that you used a square trowel makes me worried that the mortar wasn't deep enough or substantial enough to hold the tile down. I will have to check it tomorrow. Also with so many little tiles I noticed afterwards that there were full lines that butt up together with the same equal space between them, 😫 my mistake of course..

😲 that bath is awesome. Now i want that floor in my new walk in shower. Thank you for inspiration. Nice detail work around drain

you have to show us how you cut round tile around the drain thank you

Great info and tip with the dry fit! Thanks for sharing. The super speed tile taps made a very satisfying sound!

fantastic work!!!! I'm about to install a similar hex tile on a shower floor this morning. Nice to pre-game the install with coffee in here on youtube. Mine isn't going to go so smoothly or look anywhere near as good though. blah. tileing is hard. I have mine all laid out and had a hell of a time getting all my spaces right. Used spacers. Can't believe you just eyeball it and it goes together so perfect. Man you're good.

Great job. Would love to see how you cut those small tiles around the drain.

Excellent display of just what I am about to do !

Nice work Sal. Done this tile many times and noticed how clean your inside corners are on the small hex.

Sal, thank you so very much for this video. Not only is it a pleasure watching your work, but the marble you worked with was almost as amazing as your craft.

Thank you for sharing your valuable experience Sal. Your videos are fantastic, really appreciate the effort. Hope you are well sir. Have a great day.

Very nice job. Good patients pays out well.

I feel like I’ve seen this video before, like it’s been re-uploaded? Either that or you do your jobs exactly the same each time LOL And I’m not complaining, thanks for that. I have 2” hexagon tile I’ll be doing on my shower floor with the kerdi drain, so very similar to what you’ve done here. So this video and videos like it are extremely helpful.

Nice work Sal. That bench looks amazing, would love to see a video on that.

Beautiful work sir. I respect your craft. Thank you for sharing.

Nice video! Was wondering how you cut the edge of the tile so cleanly? Seems like it would be tricky with the saw as there is so little overhang on the edge to hold. Thanks so much!

That bench is amazing!!

As always. Beautiful work Sal

Thank you Sal! Great video.

Thank you so much for this video! It has helped me a ton! You are so great at what you do!

Thank you so much for making this video! I will be giving this a go for my client next week. How did you safely cut the small tiles for around the drain though?

I want this in my bathroom so I can feel like I am showering in a beehive 🐝

Very helpful video, but I do have one question. Most videos I've seen have recommended using a v-notch trowel for mosaic tyle. I see you are using a square notch. Is there really a big difference? What would be the advantage of one over the other?

Great video

Thankyou for the video , these tiles are beautiful

Watching an artist at work without a bunch of music is so satisfying. I learn so much from these videos. Sal, how big is this shower roughly? Nice size, giving me ideas...

Ok, appreciate seeing this as I'm about to do my own shower with the same pattern for the floor, but is the seem where the wall and floor meet just filled with thin set/grout? or filled with caulking? I know most have said that the gap is for any type of movement with the pan but haven't seen any real answer?

SAL, Your The Guy ! Thanks

Beautiful job Mr. Sal don’t know have a video on how you to do the seat.

Thanks for your excellent video

I see you used small mosaic tile. I want to do the same thing as my chosen tile is 1 1/2 inch across in a hexagonal tile. Schluter says not to use smaller than a 2 inch tile . Did this system work well for you as I'd really like to use Schluter shower kits with good results. thank you so much . and by the way, you did a beautiful job!

Only been doing tile for a year and glad to see I’ve ended up doing the same technique as you use. Definitely learnt a thing or two. I always tried squaring up the drain to the walls and would end up with a centered drain but diff size pieces around it. My question is why would I want to use a brush like that on marble tiles? Wouldn’t you scratch it? Granted it’ll get scratch when homeowners wash it but I don’t want to deliver the product scratched.

20:16 Schluder's video show they even backbuttered grate back side in advance before placing assembly to the floor

Awesome job Sal, ur the best!!!

Beautifully done.

A beautiful job Sal. Very masterful. Love that niche area and that ceiling too.

Hi Sal, I'm getting my bathroom renovation done. My installer finished laying out the same hexagon tiles on the shower floor and finished the grout. I was checking it and felt many sharp edges of the tiles in the floor...what can I suggest to my installer to convince him to finish it properly. Thanks. Looking forward to hearing from you asap. Thanks

I want to see who tiled the ceiling in this shower. I take my hat off to that guy.

Nice one Sal!

Wow, that’s amazing, looks beautiful!

wondering what grout you used on the flooring, sanded,(which would be hard to fill in the grout lines) or non-sanded (which they say NOT to use on floors because it will crack) I have 1/16 inch grout lines and need something for heavy traffic area grout. Awesome video!!

Nice maaahble. Thanks for the video Sal!

Love all of your work you are maestro of tiles.Thank you.

Thank you for your video. If you have to remove drain strainer in the future(due to plumbing problems) how due you do that since the drain is bonded to the floor with thinset?. Also did you set the drain you little bit lower than the tile to make a slope to drain into or did set tge drain flush with the tile. Thanks.

Beautiful work

I am going thru a bathroom remodel now. I picked out similar marble hex for my shower floor. I'm on the fence, people are telling me not to use it cuz it turns yellow and stains. What are peoples thoughts on this? Yes or no to marble floor?

I’m trying to figure out how to repair spots that didn’t lay down properly. I laid this exact floor with a Greek key border trim in my kitchen and I had to repair up some of the tiles that did not set in properly, my bad. Is there a better way to do it, a trick, than how I’m doing it which is a few pieces at a time instead of picking up the whole sheet

That came out great! Do you have any recommendations for cutting the tile with a tile saw that's set up like a table saw (from below)? The tiles keep lifting when contacting the blade.

Nice job Sal!

It’s always a pleasure watching your work. Also your camera placement is getting better by the video. Keep it up

Very nice job!!

good work bro, looks good. did you make the niche yourself or was it prebuilt from Schluter?

Great craftsmanship. May I ask why you didn't use Schleuter edging? Do you need it at all really since it looks like you just butted the tiles against one another.

New viewer. Great Chanel Sal. Fellow contractor.

I’m installing tile in a small bathroom and the schluter has some humps I tried to level the best I could, would you suggest leveling on top of it before I lay tile? Same type you are laying here maybe little bigger pattern

Beautiful. Love your work

I don't know if you have done any videos of the topic. But would you ever do one of a roman bath tub or pool if the job comes up?

Is this marble tiles? Are they ok for the shower floor? Won’t stain overtime? That’s my main concern - the color change

which way does the Schluter drain components assemble? There are tabs on one end of the circular insert, do they go at the top or bottom? Why did you decide to flip the flange at 1:15 ? Does that have a correct install position or does it not matter?

Do you not need a preslope on those shluter pans. I know some already have a preslope but others are just flat.

quick question, I heard something about triple sealing marble before it gets put down in the showers?? what's the standard, and best way from your perspective. if you don't mind. thanks enjoy your videos.

Thanks Sal!

Great video. Thank you for sharing your detailed work. Question: Is there a grout joint where the tile meets the actual drain or do those cut pieces go right up against the drain, no grout? I'm thinking there's no grout joint because water could potentially fall through the grout joint before it made it to the actual drain, right? Thank you.

That drain sucks. You gotta fill around with thinset so when they step on it later it doesn't sink in. It doesn't have the line cutout inside the threads so water can weep down. Scrap that for the Laticrete flange and drain. And just roll on hydroban rather than wallpapering Kerdi.

Great video detail on the shower drain install. I like the fact you comment on trowel size etc. For thinset application. How long did you water test for after you waterproofed. Also what's your trick to getting a nice 90 cut on the wall tile around the niche when the tile has to be cut in an L shape. I struggle with this at times getting a little nip of the blade mark from the wet saw blade. As I creep up to the mark.

Newbie question - are you eyeballing the space between sheets instead of using spacers? Or do mosaics butt together with correct space already?

Very nice. Are the hexagons inside the niche all flat or do some protrude? Should they all be flat or is that a stylistic choice? Should I be able to feel the edges or should it be grouted so that the entire niche is smoothe?

Schluter recommends not using a tiles smaller that 2” of their foam pans. Cool video though nice job

How to manufacture mosaic tiles ? I have a Marble Gangsaw and want to add elevation stones and mosaic stones to my catalog.

Nice looking work.. One question.. do the new drain systems no longer utilize the drain holes at the bottom of the drain, where you're supposed to put pebbles to provide a way for water that seeps under the tile layer to escape? Seemed like you pack the the holes at the bottom of the drain with mortar.

Without any weep holes, won't water sit above the membrane below the drain grade?

looks amazing. I learned a lot

Should this type of tile take a long time to install? It looks like you get it done quick but I’m being told it will take an extra three days for a space that looks to be about twice the size of yours in this video.

Good job 👍 sal...

Hey Sal, took me a while to find the answer I was looking for but I knew you would have it. Just wondering how to lay mosaics on a shower floor without all the thin set squeezing through the joints and then having to scrape it all out. Trowel size and nice neat even troweling, of course! 👍🙂 Just trying to do things correctly, and you’re the man to show me how. You got my sub! Thanks Sal.

Beautiful!

Is that a 1/4 x 1/4 notch? I'm doing the exact 1 inch hex.

What a great Tut, Sal. Thank you! How much expansion/contraction area do you leave around the outside edge of the floor?

Sal, Great video … complete and detailed! I have a question about the trowel you use for the mosaic tile. I think you said it was a 1/4" square trowel. I'm doing my half bath with the same kind of tile. The tiles are made by Daltile. Daltile's recommendation is a 3/16" V-notch. I've never done this before and ask if the 1/4" would be best? Thanks for your consideration.

Should a marble tile shower floor have sharp edges when you slide your hand over the floor? My floor feels dangerous.

What size trowel are you using? How deep are the grooves? Also, what brand of thinset you use?

Very nice thank you. What size trowel do you use

Sal! Did you make that margin trowel ? Pretty slick.