Tadelakt Bathroom Tutorial 

Thank you so much for the video. I have been trying to explain to my husband what Tadelakt is without knowing the correct terms. I experienced outdoor showers made this way in Tanzania and absolutely loved it. With the help of your video I will be able to redo our bathroom! Again thank you

You need to do a house tour! This looks amazing

Just FIY for those wondering, this is not Tadelakt. Tadelakt is an eco-friendly, extremely labour intensive finishing that is commonly used in Morocco and historically in Europe where natural plaster is polished with a stone. I know, it sounds crazy! I believe what is used here is a "modern" version of Tadelakt, that can be easily bought. Unfortunately not eco-friendly :)

Came out incredible! Can’t wait for the next video

I'm really enjoying the information and quality of your videos. As someone who is planning a home build right now and plan to get down and dirty with natural finishes, I'd love to see what else you've been up to. Thanks for putting all the work you do into these videos, it's much appreciated.

This was so gorgeous!! Happy to have found your video and will be following along!

STUNNING. Absolutely stunning.

What a great tutorial & beautiful space. Great job! Thank you

Great presentation. Your delivery is well paced and straight forward.

I love this so much, your hard work paid off!

Great video, with great step by step instructions. Thanks for making and sharing!

This is fantastic! Love how it turned out.

Thank you for sharing this extremely time-consuming process. I have learned a lot through your videos. I would love to know how you rounded your corners and edges such as around the pony wall. Love the softness it creates. I would also love to get an update on how it withstands against mold!! Looking forward to more videos from you.

Can’t love this enough! Amazing! Thanks for sharing

Stunning result, amazing work and excellent explanation. Thank you so much ❤

Thanks man, appreciate seeing this process! Looks so good!

I’ve been looking for this process after seeing similar in Mexico.. Thank You for these videos.. Awesome job!!

Yes! I’ve been searching RU-vid for ages having no idea what these style of bathrooms are called … I was inspired by what I saw in Greece on the islands , this smooth natural finish in interiors and particularly bathrooms. My own bathroom that came with the apartment I bought is an awful IKEA tile thing that I want to self renovate and your video has just given me the first glimmer of hope that it is possible. I have a lot to learn … I’ve got as far as ‘how to remove tiles’ but I need to also demolish part of an internal wall and get everything ready for this Greek rendering style. I’ll subscribe and look at the rest of your vids. Thanks !

The most common issue people have with this shower system is mold in corners or areas that constantly have standing water. Please keep us updated, and let us know if any issue arise. Great job, and Thanks!

Love everything about this project, thank you for sharing, hi from New Zealand

Bro-ur my hero! I spent lots if time in morocco and have been trying to figure out how to get those textures…thanks somuch for sharing your know how!!!

beautiful and inspiring. Makes me feel like I can do this too. Thanks!

Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.🎉

We just did our shower like this!!! It’s sooo beautiful! We loved the dark so much we didn’t mix as much the last layer and kept it darker - it’s such a vibe! It was way more work than my hubby wanted but it’s finally done! Very labor intensive ❤Thank you for the inspiration Mr. Washington. We had a rock shower planned and as it sit in piles and we have a 2story , to go back and forth cutting and placing quickly became too big - this was the next choice 😅

Excellent demo, many thanks! My these construction workers are getting younger and younger these days! And the diversity of the team is astounding. Cross species too. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I saw a photo on pinterest and was in love and just like u i went searching and in my search a friend told me he use lime wash on his walls and it looked similar but something was missing and then i FOUND YOU 😂 and boom i know exactly what to do next (not really) but ill continue watching your videos and whenever i am ready i hope to make MINIMAL mistakes. Thank you for being the hero that u are. 🎉

nice work man. im looking to do this for a wet room shower with a roman tub. getting excited seeing other people succeed.

Gorgeous!! My dream bathroom!!

Awesome!!! So much patience

I'm happy to have found you here, I'm starting my Tadelakt project in Brazil. I was very inspired by you! Thank you very much!

This is such a helpful video- thank you!!

Absolutamente perfecto!!!!

This video is gold

Thank you very much for sharing; I really love it.

Looks amazing!!!

Gorgeous project!

Beautiful!

ohhhhhhhhh my god!!!!!!!!!!!!! wonderfull!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Awesome video ! Thank you so much !

Stunning

Nice, we can’t get this kind of thing in my area or most others in the US. I want it so I’ll learn. I’m ok with the labor and multiple coats. It’s my house. I’m going to work on it constantly anyway. It’s similar to smoothed interior plaster and that’s surprisingly easy to learn.

It’s amazing

Great job 👏🏻

We just switched our entire shower project. Thanks to this amazing video!!!! So extra!!!! Thank you. Hey when you did your kitchen what material was under neith your counters and sink?

Beautiful 🧡

I ❤ it! 👏🏼

Awesome man

This looks really beautiful although it’s not real tadelakt. It’s lime plaster that is waterproofed with olive oil soap…. Real tadelakt is limeplaster, that is densified by hand with a very small smooth stone - square inch by square inch so that in the end it looks like it has been glazed and has a real shine. The real tadelakt is very hard because of the density, almost like real solid stone.

Hey, it look amazing. We are doing this also but we use tales glue. You have the same result and much cheaper. First waterproofing the support then 2 layers of white tales glue and then vernis. We use it in bathroom and even in shower.

This was SUPER helpful. I think that I have found what my guest bath will be! I was wondering will you cover what you did for the ceiling in the shower and the floor?

beautiful

Thank you so much for the video! My wife and I want to do this. Can you explain what you did with the floor. Did the elastic shield go on there?

I used Ca(OH)2 (powder) + fine sand + water for all walls/ceiling in my house close to the sea. No mold enymore. The easiest and cheapest way to plaster.

I would love a bathroom like this. Looks and feels grounding, relaxing, and soothing. I wonder what the results would be if distilled water was used instead of tap.

Beautiful, but your real masterpiece is that stunning baby. ❤️

Great job! The shower came out beautiful. In my research into this shower technique, I would like to know what you used on the shower floor? Some videos say to tile the floor to stop future water seepage. Also, what did this shower project cost?

This amazing in all means can you advise if putting a Durock will be more safe!

I saw and used bathrooms in Riads in Marrakech with this finish and absolutely love it. Unfortunately I couldn’t find someone local to do it and I’m definitely not a DIY guy. Congratulations on doing this.

Hello Sir, many thanks for the video. I love it and the colour as well. I even purchased the same pigments for my future tadelakt project! I was wondering if you can give a recommendation on how to caulk the transition to ground tiles. Is this before or after soaping? And do you recommend first tiling or applying tadelakt on the walls. I hope you can give advice as I know you didn't use tiles. Thanks in advance.

Beautiful

Love! Would you recommend this process for an outdoor water fountain?

looks nice, thanks

Bro! I'm from Mexico here I will need to make my own mix with lime, but it's a nice video. Thanks 👍

Looks stunning!!! Does it get slippery in the shower area? Would elderly be more prone to slips & falls?

Appreciated for the video.

Love this! I’m doing the same now. Can we use this sane technique over GoBoard instead of hardie?

Nicely done! Curious to see how things hold up over time.

This is great. How have you found that it held up? I have a tadelakt fireplace and I don't think they soap coated it because we had a leak during heavy rains and it left calcium deposits. I had a tiny amount of material and I'm trying to fix it and it's a not easy.

Great video, inspiring as this is my ideal bathroom aesthetic, along with Cycladic/Mykonos villa-style interiors. Without looking at the Limestrong literature, I would have expected some hard-trowelling of the final coat when it was almost dry to help smooth and compact the finished surface.

Great video! We are considering doing this in our bathroom and this has been very informative

Nice result! Just curious....any regular maintenance or re-application of waterproofing wax

What difference does this product have from the microcement you used on your flooring in previous video?

Very nice 😍

I really appreciate your videos. In the near future I will be building a cottage with traditional materials (slip-straw, strawbale, cob, earthen and lime plasters, etc.), but for now I'm learning how to retro-fit parts of our main house with natural materials/processes like tadelakt. Thanks for sharing your experience and insights, and for great production value. One request: please raise the volume of your voice and reduce (or eliminate) the music. I would enjoy hearing the sounds of troweling, mixing, etc., and just the general ambiance. All the best to you, and congrats on building a solid channel.

thank you

Hi there thanks for sharing! For quite a long time I have been looking for this “plaster” Spanish style finish for a project and thanks to your video now I know it is called Tadelakt. Just out of curiosity is this project located in Mt.Wash of LA? It def have the vibe of that area. I have a question for you though: did you do the entire house tadelaket style? What did you do to the bathroom floor? Thanks!

Hey! I’m really wanting to redo our new home master bathroom like this. However, I’m concerned on how we can repair after tadelakt is applied and years later we have a leaking pipe. Can you repair it or would I have to redo the entire shower? Will leaks show through tadelakt, like how you can see wet grout and tiles falling off from leaking pipes?

😮Wow.thanks for sharing! Is it as waterproofed as tiles?

It’s nice work .. 1) What products do you use to keep the bathroom or walls clean ? 2) Can Microcement be used in bathroom instead of lime ?

Gorgeous

A year on how is this holding up?? I’m desperate to try this on my new bathroom but people have told me it takes a lot of upkeep and I should be worried of kids finger marks 🤷‍♂️. Just wondering if you would do anything different and if you’re experiencing any issues. I was considering a shadow gap at the bottom of the wall to remove any chance of the tadelakt being exposed to standing water.

I am curious if you had any cracks in the shower. I am considering this for our straw bale house, but worries that with expansion and contraction of wooden frame we will get cracks, as we did in the exterior plaster. Let us know if your can, thank for the beautiful video!

dont you have to presure the surface with a stone? I learnt that tardelak needs presure on every layer. Also after the oil you have to presure it again otherwise you lose the funktion after some time. Or do you use some advanced material with extra ad ons?

Wouah, je tombe par hasard sur votre vidéo, car je viens de rentrer du Maroc, où ils utilisent beaucoup le Tadelakt dans les salles de bain en autres, et j'avoue que votre résultat est super. 2 ans après, le résultat est il identique, pas de problème d'humidité ou moisissure? Merci de votre retour.

awesome video How long did it take you to do this shower ?

Looks great! Come do my house please.... But seriously great job, your videos are so handy for my reno

Thank you so much for these beautiful and useful videos! So inspiring! I was hoping you can answer something for me: how do you create the shower divider? Is it just stacks of Hardiebacker board stuck together and then someone attached to the floor? Thanks!

So nice! ❤Can you use redguard?

The arabic word for tadalakt is تدلاكت it is originated from morocco. You can find a lot of videos on RU-vid how to apply the tadlakt technique.

Looks good, are the curved edges just plaster?

Hey did you use hardibacker in the whole bathroom or just in the direct wet areas?

Great video. Beautiful baby by the way. What did you use for your shower floors?

I really LOVED the video. Unfortunately, I don't know why it doesn't open the link for the tools that you used. If possible, can you write in detail, what exactly are the tools brands that you used, and from which store?

How easy was it to match the limewash paint? Smart. And your lime wash paint application did you use a brush ?

Amazing results, I’m very curious to see how you matched the rest of the bathroom with limewash. 👌

Hi, is the limestone water proof/humidity? Are all these products and the micro cement products found in the US?

Can you start this process over a plaster wall? Or do I have to rip it all out to then float board and tape and start from there?

merci

Amazing I am always so inspired by your videos!! You mention in the beginning you had the hardie backer board floated, what does that mean? Also, did you prep the board with anything before you put the layer of elasto? Thank you so much!! I am definitely going to attempt this for my new bathroom install! You’re a godsend!!!!

This is a great video! I just started my sample board yesterday and your video calms my nerves. I've been worried about timing between coats but it seems like I'll have more time than I thought. You mentioned you used the soap for sealing plus a wax. What wax did you use? Also your ceiling looks close to the tadelakt did you lime paint the ceiling?