This is my first post. I’ve done some tiling but this one was new to me and brought up new questions. Here’s the layout: It’s a tub with a built up shelf-sofit at the foot of the tub. It looks like the tub was short of the wall so they built a footer (my word) that rises above the tub about 10 inches and then over to the wall about 6-8 inches creating a sofit-shelf. My question is where do you start tiling? On the floor outside the tub? Or where the top of the shelf hits the back wall? You know the shelf hits the wall and stays even with the side of the tub but the tile will go about 3-4 inches outside of the tub. So from floor to ceiling you have a straight shot but you hit the tub height at about 13 inches (using 12×12 tiles), the rise in the footer-sofit is about 10 and then over about 6-8 inches to the wall (horizonal shelf). Second set of questons: Does the wall tile come down to the shelf and the shelf tile butt up against the wall tile or does the shelf tile go under the wall tile? Also does shelf tile on sofit-shelf go over the tile that rises up from the tub or does the tile coming up from the top of the tub butt up underneath the shelf tile? A fight almost broke out over how to do this right. Next time I’ll try to post a digital pic, but I’m still trying to figure that out. This forum would be great for me if I can post a pic and ask a question. I’m running a fifteen-man crew and we’re remodeling a 12-unit building.