One tip i bave for you since I've gotten plenty from these videos is to try windex for the silicon instead of soap and water, iv done both and used white spirit and windex is by far the easiest.
Funny, that you said, it’s how you fix the mistakes is what helps makes you a better pro (there about), and I paused vid to comment below, and then you said exactly what I was taught soon as hit play again. Well said and good biz practices👍🏻😊
I wish I would have found your video before doing tile the first time. You explained things on initial set up very clearly. Would've saved me a bunch of amall mistakes along the way... appreciate you and you earned my subscription
I subscribed just the first min of you saying you’re willing to share your knowledge for free and help. Now that’s very freaking rare nowadays everyone trying to make $$$ from simple tips. Thank you for being very generous and you deserve to be out there
I loved that you included the mistake and then fixed it. I keep rewatching because I am going to tile my bathroom and the walls are cement walls (island house) I had to try to level a bit. That bit about first row was explained super well too and explaining why really helps me remember what to avoid. The video for using the angle grinder for miter SAVED my budget! Thank you!
Misha - I 'm in the UK and doing my bathroom first time ever. This video is worth GOLD - stupendous and very comprehensive video with key - explanations of the tiling process. You can't imagine how helpful this is. THANK YOU VERY MUCH
Good to know other companies are charging for “packages”. I work with my father and he was doing showers with a small niche at 250$ For a long time labor only, customers supply material. I suggested offering a shower package and he hated the idea for years. Now we do pretty much what you do but without supplying the tile. We offer tub surrounds for 500-750-1100 and tub to walk in shower conversions for 1200-1450-1600. Anything over our package rates (custom ideas) is negotiable. Keep coaching, I like you’re methods. We do it a little different in central FL but most of it is the same process
Beautiful work …. and many thanks for the generosity to share your obvious experience and superb technique. I will be starting my shower in a week and will be using all of your tips.
I remember starting out, bid this job super low just to get the work and had to meet with homeowners to explain how I was going to do the work. Four years later I was doing a 10k+ job no bid, just a hey heard you were the guy we want you. Focus on the details and get your rep up, after that you can charge almost anything
Oh my goodness THIS IS SO INCREDIBLY HELPFUL!!! I've tiled a few tub surrounds and floors, no miter niches yet, and I've watched countless hours of tile pros so I can learn. Your videos are THE BEST. Thank you!!!
Just starting out in the tiling business and love the creative process, i have learned a lot from your videos, you are my favourite guy on the scene, thank you.Des from the UK.
I found my way here from Bob Doyle at starr tile and this is the first one of your videos I have watched and bam instantly your videos are definitely far more informative thank you for posting them
Great job dude, me as a contractor and I also place tile I can tell you that for me its almost 99.9999 % that I cant match the niche as you did with just 1 tile, I will like to see wall preparation and how did you measure to have it match so perfect......great tile job and video.
DUUUDDE. Great simple explanation, also (like others' comments) admire that you put the mistakes because I agree, all those other guys make mistakes they just don't put them in the videos. It makes you much more realistic and relatable! Thanks.
Very informative videos, appreciate it. Would recommend to anyone to fill the tub first before caulking/silicon around the joint incase there is any sag from weight etc. Subscribed 👍
I would like to see your review of the whole shower wall system. Lowe's calls it jetcoat. It's expensive but they say installs in one day. They're made of plastic and look like tile or marble. I'm tempted to try it because I like how it looks in hotels. Thanks for the help! Love your work
Getting ready to tile a small bathroom in the renovation of our old house near Normandy and trying to learn as much as we can before we attack the job to minimize the mistakes. Your videos are incredibly well done. Thank you so much! I saw in this one something I was going to ask you about. I noticed that you let the RedGard go past the Schluter strip along the window trim, where I imagine the wall will be painted. I was thinking I needed to take super care not to let the RedGard type product do that. It works to just prime over it before painting? Maybe sanding first? THANK YOU!
I'm in Houston and finally priced a $5k shower build. I was doing them dirt cheap bc I wasn't confident in my skill but after a couple dozen $2000 builds it's time to step it up. I'm doing wayyy better work than the local pros and actually using quality materials and methods
A small tip for you buddy if you do the sides and back of the niche first you don’t need support under the bottom tile inside the niche but you need to be very precise with your cuts I would never put wedges under a tile
Awesome video this really helps to know when I get started on mine. Details make the best outcome on this type of projects and you cover them very well. Thanks for sharing this great info.
Hey Sr can you also run those shulter ends all the way around the tiles , even on the back wall too along the roof...Or is that a no no...thanks have a great one
Whats going on misha man oh man! Great video thanks so much for making these great teachings. Ive been installing tile now for about 7 years i love it but i kinda want to take a class so i can get certified and i want to really know my stuff, you know what i mean, not just install, learn all the info. anyways thank you man.
Hi! Thank you so much for your videos, I truly appreciate you. I was wondering if there is a way that you can breakdown the whole pricing from demo to finish of jobs.
Came across your channel by accident, and I must say from one contractor to another, I do love your work and the way you do things. Congrats. Earned a subscriber here
Thanks for all of your amazing videos. I have learned a lot. I am about to tile a shower and tub surround and was planning to miter all of the transitions. I noted from this video that you now only miter niches due to concerns about the strength of the edges. Can you please give me an idea of how much of a risk I am taking mitering everything? I really want the look but also want it to last. Thanks in advance.
Hello Mischa. You are a great teacher, and your videos are awesome. I have learned so much from watching you. FOREVER GRATEFUL to You. 😎 Frank Dwyer BKLYN NY
Fantastic work Winni! Thanks for showing this how to video as we are renovating 2 bathrooms and using the same tile. May I ask what type of grout you are using? I'm paranoid on which product to use as want something I don't have to seal after. I believe it should be an epoxy type? Thanks!! Love all your video's, we've learnt so much!
Love your videos, they're really helpful. I have to kid you though... You were talking about the neighborhood, and I believe you meant to say "affluent," as in "wealthy," but you said, "effluent," which has typically to do with sewage outflow. Or maybe you meant both? In any case, it was a good laugh. What a difference a single letter can make. lol
Great video. Question: You grout the miters and mention using silicone for 90 degree grout joints. Is the grout for miter edges susceptible to cracking and should we use silicone for the mitered edges?
Mischa, great video. I’ve followed you as you made your start on RUclips, and your presentation is solid . Dm and I’ll show you a super efficient set up for your trailer, I think it would help you. Once I built out my trailer for tile work and more geared to bathrooms, it changed my efficiency and my over all final product. Cheers man, keep grinding
Thanks a ton Mischa, these videos have been the absolute best help during these home renovations, came over from ig and definitely more confident taking on these jobs now
Good videos with clear understanding of steps. However, your video on mitering outside corners and curbs you said you don't like to do because they aren't as strong. What do you prefer to use? Schluter trim?
Amazing tiles, and even more amazing work - as usual! Krasivaya! Are these a smaller format of the same Arabescatto tiles you used in the $10K shower job in your other 3-part vids? Got another (perhaps odd) question for ya. I've noticed that in the east (Russia, China, Middle East, etc) they somehow get the grout lines fully flush with the tiles. I mean, you could close your eyes and scrape across the surface with your fingernails and not know where the tile ends and grout begins. Do those folks maybe use a different material for grouting? Or maybe it's common to double-grout before the first grout fully cures.. 🤔 Haven't seen it out west (Canada where I am, or the U.S.), but in my travels in the East I've been impressed by how it gives a 'stone carpet' effect. Keep up the great work bro, and keep the videos coming!
I noticed that on the side walls in the shower, it looks like you cut the tiles so that both pieces were the same size. Is that always preferable to putting in a full tile in the corner and then having like 1/4 tile cuts to finish each course?
Still have the back butter shirt from ya when I ordered the suction tool from ya back in the day. Used to watch your lives on tiktok. Good work and good luck!
I did not see where you may have addressed it in the video but was wondering if on that inserted area that bottom tile you put in do you make that slope out from wall to tub slightly so you don’t have standing water in there?
What about the angle of the bottom of the niche you run it flat?? Also one step back the bottom tub edge should be perfectly flat no need to trim tiles
Thanks Mischa, great work. One question: I would have liked to have seen how you made those angle cuts on the first row. Did you freehand push them through the table saw? Or set an angle on the blade and use the fence? Or, did you cut them with your grinder?
Great question! So if I have some room I use my wetsaw. But if the angle goes to 0 I use a bringer with a polishing pad. Bc a wetsaw blade will jump off
The blooper bird said *"subscribe or else!!!"* OMG that streamer! I legit was thinking of how to safely rig up my water hose. 😂 And thanks for explaining the importance of keeping the grout lines clean. I always wondered why it was a priority when the tile gets covered in grout anyway. This came out beautiful.
14:59 OH YEAH WE MAKE MISTAKES. Was doing a curbless walk in shower (tile in shower, bathroom floor, and bathroom walls, non on ceiling) and for some reason we had 3 diff color grouts on site that day. This bathroom shower and walls was all black, w/ bathroom floor diff color. Well, not sure what happened but left site and came back and the guys grouted the shower walls/floor with a completely diff color grout. What color, SILVER…..THE tile for shower was all black so that’s was so noticeable, and you’d think that there’d stop when realized mistake and redo, but Nope…..all silver. The grout we used for this job was epoxy. So, that was a fun time redoing the grout, 😅🤦🏼 But, mistakes do happen, not often, but they do. It’s HOW YOU HANDLE THEM IS WHAT COUNTS, imo. Great vid, and love the miters, very very nice👍🏻👍🏻
I love how you add your mistakes. Makes me feel better when I do!
Good man. You are the only contractor who is very clear and precise. Well done to you. Thank you for your time. From United Kingdom x
One tip i bave for you since I've gotten plenty from these videos is to try windex for the silicon instead of soap and water, iv done both and used white spirit and windex is by far the easiest.
Funny, that you said, it’s how you fix the mistakes is what helps makes you a better pro (there about), and I paused vid to comment below, and then you said exactly what I was taught soon as hit play again.
Well said and good biz practices👍🏻😊
I wish I would have found your video before doing tile the first time. You explained things on initial set up very clearly. Would've saved me a bunch of amall mistakes along the way... appreciate you and you earned my subscription
I've seen a bunch of these tiling videos over the last week, I have to say this was by far the best. Good job, Misha.
Simply said, your awesome. Thanks for your trade secrets and your great videos
Good job
I subscribed just the first min of you saying you’re willing to share your knowledge for free and help. Now that’s very freaking rare nowadays everyone trying to make $$$ from simple tips. Thank you for being very generous and you deserve to be out there
I loved that you included the mistake and then fixed it. I keep rewatching because I am going to tile my bathroom and the walls are cement walls (island house) I had to try to level a bit. That bit about first row was explained super well too and explaining why really helps me remember what to avoid. The video for using the angle grinder for miter SAVED my budget! Thank you!
Misha - I 'm in the UK and doing my bathroom first time ever. This video is worth GOLD - stupendous and very comprehensive video with key - explanations of the tiling process. You can't imagine how helpful this is. THANK YOU VERY MUCH
It’s great to see the mistakes, especially from the pros and then how they recover them. Great vid!
Great video. Lots of helpful tips including what to do when you mess up. Thanks!
Good to know other companies are charging for “packages”. I work with my father and he was doing showers with a small niche at 250$ For a long time labor only, customers supply material. I suggested offering a shower package and he hated the idea for years. Now we do pretty much what you do but without supplying the tile. We offer tub surrounds for 500-750-1100 and tub to walk in shower conversions for 1200-1450-1600. Anything over our package rates (custom ideas) is negotiable. Keep coaching, I like you’re methods. We do it a little different in central FL but most of it is the same process
Great point on mistakes we all make them just make sure to fix them
Beautiful work …. and many thanks for the generosity to share your obvious experience and superb technique. I will be starting my shower in a week and will be using all of your tips.
Thank you for this I love your channel very proffesional work my friend good tips
I remember starting out, bid this job super low just to get the work and had to meet with homeowners to explain how I was going to do the work. Four years later I was doing a 10k+ job no bid, just a hey heard you were the guy we want you. Focus on the details and get your rep up, after that you can charge almost anything
Oh my goodness THIS IS SO INCREDIBLY HELPFUL!!! I've tiled a few tub surrounds and floors, no miter niches yet, and I've watched countless hours of tile pros so I can learn. Your videos are THE BEST. Thank you!!!
Great “Pro” talk and discussion 👍🏻not only for oneself but also for the industry. That’s awesome 👏🏻 😎
Great video, it’s nice of you to take the time and share your knowledge. 👍👍👍
Dope work my friend!!!! I appreciate you taking the time to educate us on professional service ethics.
Just starting out in the tiling business and love the creative process, i have learned a lot from your videos, you are my favourite guy on the scene, thank you.Des from the UK.
I found my way here from Bob Doyle at starr tile and this is the first one of your videos I have watched and bam instantly your videos are definitely far more informative thank you for posting them
Blue microfiber clothes from home center is incredible for haze removal. Great vids Winni!
You are a ROCK STAR! Thank you so much!
Great job dude, me as a contractor and I also place tile I can tell you that for me its almost 99.9999 % that I cant match the niche as you did with just 1 tile, I will like to see wall preparation and how did you measure to have it match so perfect......great tile job and video.
DUUUDDE. Great simple explanation, also (like others' comments) admire that you put the mistakes because I agree, all those other guys make mistakes they just don't put them in the videos. It makes you much more realistic and relatable! Thanks.
Thank you so much!
Very informative videos, appreciate it. Would recommend to anyone to fill the tub first before caulking/silicon around the joint incase there is any sag from weight etc.
Subscribed 👍
Soooo good ... Great great vid as usual and can't wait to see how the channel blasts off this year in 2022
I would like to see your review of the whole shower wall system. Lowe's calls it jetcoat. It's expensive but they say installs in one day. They're made of plastic and look like tile or marble. I'm tempted to try it because I like how it looks in hotels. Thanks for the help! Love your work
Getting ready to tile a small bathroom in the renovation of our old house near Normandy and trying to learn as much as we can before we attack the job to minimize the mistakes. Your videos are incredibly well done. Thank you so much! I saw in this one something I was going to ask you about. I noticed that you let the RedGard go past the Schluter strip along the window trim, where I imagine the wall will be painted. I was thinking I needed to take super care not to let the RedGard type product do that. It works to just prime over it before painting? Maybe sanding first? THANK YOU!
Awesome job man, I'm I tile contractor in northern California my self and I really enjoy watching your videos. Keep up the good work..
I'm in Houston and finally priced a $5k shower build. I was doing them dirt cheap bc I wasn't confident in my skill but after a couple dozen $2000 builds it's time to step it up. I'm doing wayyy better work than the local pros and actually using quality materials and methods
How are you getting away with a $2000 shower? It’s hard to stay under that just in supplies.
Do you travel? I’m in Austin and I need master bath done
amazing work as usual...very impressive...keep it up
A small tip for you buddy if you do the sides and back of the niche first you don’t need support under the bottom tile inside the niche but you need to be very precise with your cuts I would never put wedges under a tile
Awesome video this really helps to know when I get started on mine. Details make the best outcome on this type of projects and you cover them very well. Thanks for sharing this great info.
Amazing job, I'm very happy I found your RUclips channel.
Whats your favorite thinset? Have you tried Titanium? Multimax compared to keraflex?
Awesome work!
You are the definition of perfection. Best tile works on youtube!
honesty is the key to success and you carry it with you.
God bless you brother.
Hey Sr can you also run those shulter ends all the way around the tiles , even on the back wall too along the roof...Or is that a no no...thanks have a great one
Whats going on misha man oh man! Great video thanks so much for making these great teachings. Ive been installing tile now for about 7 years i love it but i kinda want to take a class so i can get certified and i want to really know my stuff, you know what i mean, not just install, learn all the info. anyways thank you man.
Nice job
Thanks for share
Thank you for this info!
Awesome work! Glad I found your chanel .
Love all your videos. You’re a great teacher and your videos definitely help a lot.
Great video GOD BLESS YOU
Hi! Thank you so much for your videos, I truly appreciate you. I was wondering if there is a way that you can breakdown the whole pricing from demo to finish of jobs.
Came across your channel by accident, and I must say from one contractor to another, I do love your work and the way you do things. Congrats. Earned a subscriber here
Good job buddy, I learnt how to miter tile for a wood stove surround from you 👍
Thanks for keeping in your mistake and giving me hope
Thanks for all of your amazing videos. I have learned a lot. I am about to tile a shower and tub surround and was planning to miter all of the transitions. I noted from this video that you now only miter niches due to concerns about the strength of the edges. Can you please give me an idea of how much of a risk I am taking mitering everything? I really want the look but also want it to last. Thanks in advance.
Great video. More of these please
Your videos are great! You make everything looks so easy!
Respect to a tile pro
Another great video. Next time I hope you’ll walkthrough/highlight those clips/wedges in the niche base.
Hello Mischa. You are a great teacher, and your videos are awesome. I have learned so much from watching you.
FOREVER GRATEFUL to You. 😎 Frank Dwyer BKLYN NY
Fantastic work Winni! Thanks for showing this how to video as we are renovating 2 bathrooms and using the same tile. May I ask what type of grout you are using? I'm paranoid on which product to use as want something I don't have to seal after. I believe it should be an epoxy type? Thanks!! Love all your video's, we've learnt so much!
Your work is very similar to mine and the price too nice job
Great video
Love your videos, they're really helpful. I have to kid you though... You were talking about the neighborhood, and I believe you meant to say "affluent," as in "wealthy," but you said, "effluent," which has typically to do with sewage outflow. Or maybe you meant both? In any case, it was a good laugh. What a difference a single letter can make. lol
Amazing work and thanks for doing this video. Very helpful.
its important to fill the tub with water before you do the caulk joint between tub and tile
Great video. Question: You grout the miters and mention using silicone for 90 degree grout joints. Is the grout for miter edges susceptible to cracking and should we use silicone for the mitered edges?
Nice tutorial. Question: what’s the pricing for niches done with Schluter edging (instead of mitered)?
Mischa, great video. I’ve followed you as you made your start on RUclips, and your presentation is solid .
Dm and I’ll show you a super efficient set up for your trailer, I think it would help you.
Once I built out my trailer for tile work and more geared to bathrooms, it changed my efficiency and my over all final product.
Cheers man, keep grinding
Thanks a ton Mischa, these videos have been the absolute best help during these home renovations, came over from ig and definitely more confident taking on these jobs now
This is awesome, thanks for sharing 👍
Great vid
Good videos with clear understanding of steps. However, your video on mitering outside corners and curbs you said you don't like to do because they aren't as strong. What do you prefer to use? Schluter trim?
Misha, what is the name of that tile? looks incredible
Hello Great video thank you.
Is the plumbing ( install fixture bath drainage ..) included in your price .
Thank you
I love your you tube channel!!
Quick question, what would you do if the tile itself are not even already from the beginning.
Amazing tiles, and even more amazing work - as usual! Krasivaya!
Are these a smaller format of the same Arabescatto tiles you used in the $10K shower job in your other 3-part vids?
Got another (perhaps odd) question for ya. I've noticed that in the east (Russia, China, Middle East, etc) they somehow get the grout lines fully flush with the tiles. I mean, you could close your eyes and scrape across the surface with your fingernails and not know where the tile ends and grout begins.
Do those folks maybe use a different material for grouting? Or maybe it's common to double-grout before the first grout fully cures.. 🤔
Haven't seen it out west (Canada where I am, or the U.S.), but in my travels in the East I've been impressed by how it gives a 'stone carpet' effect.
Keep up the great work bro, and keep the videos coming!
Great content! Thanks
Did you use a niche plastic box, or you tile direct to the backer board?
I noticed that on the side walls in the shower, it looks like you cut the tiles so that both pieces were the same size. Is that always preferable to putting in a full tile in the corner and then having like 1/4 tile cuts to finish each course?
How much do you cut your tiles to overhang inside the niche? The left/right and top/bottom tiles
Still have the back butter shirt from ya when I ordered the suction tool from ya back in the day. Used to watch your lives on tiktok. Good work and good luck!
I did not see where you may have addressed it in the video but was wondering if on that inserted area that bottom tile you put in do you make that slope out from wall to tub slightly so you don’t have standing water in there?
Thank you sooooo much for the educational video. I Loooove it . I am going to DIY my bathroom and this video is a GOLD start 😃 THANK YOU 🙏🏼
Amazing tips, thank you!
If I'm not tiling all the way up to the ceiling should I silicone the top row or should I use grout
What about the angle of the bottom of the niche you run it flat?? Also one step back the bottom tub edge should be perfectly flat no need to trim tiles
Great video ! Great job 👏!
Brother God bless
nice work
Thanks Mischa, great work. One question: I would have liked to have seen how you made those angle cuts on the first row. Did you freehand push them through the table saw? Or set an angle on the blade and use the fence? Or, did you cut them with your grinder?
Great question! So if I have some room I use my wetsaw. But if the angle goes to 0 I use a bringer with a polishing pad. Bc a wetsaw blade will jump off
Graat. I had the same q Thanks for asking
What brand of polishing pads do you recommend for cleaning up the cut edges?
Love the work bro.🤙🤙
Love it!!! very helpful!!
More of pricing please!! Thanks !!
Like,nice work
hi Misha, I have just subscribed!!!!!! hahahahaha
From one tile setter to another... To stop loud birds simply clap your hands loudly and they will be quiet. Yes, it works.
The blooper bird said *"subscribe or else!!!"*
OMG that streamer! I legit was thinking of how to safely rig up my water hose. 😂 And thanks for explaining the importance of keeping the grout lines clean. I always wondered why it was a priority when the tile gets covered in grout anyway. This came out beautiful.
Love your videos!
Don't mean to be knit picky, but why not take off the sharkbite from the spout, before cutting hole for the spout? That's a big hole, dude.
14:59 OH YEAH WE MAKE MISTAKES. Was doing a curbless walk in shower (tile in shower, bathroom floor, and bathroom walls, non on ceiling) and for some reason we had 3 diff color grouts on site that day. This bathroom shower and walls was all black, w/ bathroom floor diff color. Well, not sure what happened but left site and came back and the guys grouted the shower walls/floor with a completely diff color grout. What color, SILVER…..THE tile for shower was all black so that’s was so noticeable, and you’d think that there’d stop when realized mistake and redo, but Nope…..all silver. The grout we used for this job was epoxy. So, that was a fun time redoing the grout, 😅🤦🏼
But, mistakes do happen, not often, but they do. It’s HOW YOU HANDLE THEM IS WHAT COUNTS, imo.
Great vid, and love the miters, very very nice👍🏻👍🏻
Bruh! I dig your style, but that red laser on that already blinding red guard was killing my eyes 😂🤣