How To Make A Shower Pan On A Wood Floor

Measure the distances between the studs on your walls where you plan on building your shower pan and write them down.

How to make a shower pan on a wood floor.

Because water trickles through the slats into a large shower pan a wood floor conceals unsightly drains making way for a fluid minimalist statement. Pour mud into the shower pan mixing it with a trowel as you go to get rid of air bubbles. You need to notch the corners for a two inch overlap. So if you d like to install a tile shower and are willing to build your own custom shower pan you ll be able to tile it to match the walls.

Use fabric strips to build the shower pan waterproofing. We use the wedi fundo ligno curbless shower pan. Part 1 of new bathroom project. A properly built concrete shower pan will weight several hundred pounds once complete and should be built on a foundation capable of supporting it.

Put the thinset on the floor and wall focusing on the inside edge. With less splash back a doorless no threshold shower works perfectly in a small space. Use a circular saw to cut boards that are 2 by 6 inches 5 1 cm 15 2 cm to size based on the measurements you took. In this video i ll show you how to make a mortar shower pan.

Press the fabric into place with the trowel on both the pan and the wall. Regarding the shower pan build if he plans to build a traditional sloped concrete pan with a sandwiched shower liner he should be using a portland cement based floor mix concrete. And with a mortar and tile floor your shower can be any shape. Learn how to build a walk in shower in this part 1 video.

Use the level to make sure all sides of the pan slope toward the drain. This how to video shows tile board going down onto timber floor and the shower floor drain grates. Frame out the shower pan using 2 by 6 inches 5 1 cm 15 2 cm boards. You ll need to apply the thinset then the fabric on the outside and inside corners.

It s been 7 years since i made this shower pan and not one crack or leak. If you re doing a bathroom remodel and you re stuc.