Because the soap holder protrudes from the wall it.
How to repair ceramic soap dish in shower.
Unlike installing soap dishes in tiled shower walls which requires drilling screw holes through tile and into the drywall or wall studs fiberglass showers have soap dishes glued onto them.
The shower soap holder installs on the shower wall in the same manner in which the wall tiles install.
Usually ceramic soap dishes can be cleaned up and made to look like new again.
Removal and replacement of both types of broken dish holders are fairly common repairs as houses age.
A buckling or partly raised tile on your shower wall usually means water has gotten behind the tile often through cracks in the grout and caused the wall material to expand pushing the tile outward.
Shower soap dish holders do not last long.
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How to fix a broken shower soap holder.
Most of the time an old soap dish that has fallen in a shower can be cleaned off and reinstalled.
The soap dish immediately removed itself from the wall big surprise and we were stuck with yet another repair job.
Step 1 dig out the grout around the tile or soap dish with a razor blade.
Tile holders are often used as a handle and pulled off the wall.
Metal type holders tend to collect water and soap scum and rot out.