Making A Sloped Shower Floor

Before tiling a shower be sure the drain and sub floor are properly seal.

Making a sloped shower floor.

You need to place what is called a cleavage membrane beneath your lathe. Mix the cement in the wheelbarrow. For standard shower sub floor areas with a centered drain or custom shower areas where the drain is within 36 in. This is just a sheet of plastic or tar paper stapled to your wood floor first with the lathe placed over it.

The membrane does not make anything waterproof. Shower floor slope to efficiently drain the recommended minimum slope for a shower floor is about 4 percent or a 1 2 inch drop per every 12 inches from the shower walls to the drain. Sticks measure 1 8 in. Taper x 36 in.

Install the liner over a pre sloped bed as i explain here. From the floor drain. Make the cement about a half inch deep around the drain assembly. Calculate the slope by multiplying the measurement by 1 4 inch.

All kits have the built in code required slope and can be used with any shower base pan liner system currently on the market today. On wood you can use regular metal lathe. I used an unbonded mortar bed so i have a tar. When working with the wet concrete strike it gently with the flat side of the trowel to help bring the moisture to the surface and smooth out the concrete.

Usually this requires that the floor is recessed between 1 to 2 for the minimum size. Shovel it into the shower stall working it with your trowel as you do. You need to first make sure your shower floor will stay where you put it. The height of the concrete should gently slope from 2 1 2 around the outside of the form to 1 1 4 near the drain.

Make your diy shower tile experience easier with these pro tips from the tile shop. Water that gets into the mortar bed won t be able to drain out. Reinforce the shower pan. No matter what the building inspector says it s not a good idea to install a pan liner and then a single sloped mortar bed over it.

1 measure from the drain opening to the furthest wall then round up to the nearest foot. A setting or mortar bed is recommended under the entire shower area and must be sufficiently deep so it may be sloped to the drain.