How To Tile A Shower Floor Without A Pan
We first need to frame in the shower pan with 2x10 lumber around the bottom of the floor and regular 2x4 studs up the walls.
How to tile a shower floor without a pan. Besides all the other small mistakes not putting in the liner really takes the cake the customer did the tear out. Tiling a shower floor is pretty similar to tiling the shower wall. In this video the guy never installed a pan liner when he built the shower. Allow for the thickness of the tile around the drain when floating your shower pan.
You should be aware the shower floor is slightly sloped to ensure that water runs into the drain. Any questions leave in comment section here. A very quick tutorial on how to build a shower with no step up curbless. Ceramic tile pro llc 1 272 788 views 34 14.
Install your wall tile first so that any unevenness in your shower pan will not be as noticeable. Custom tile shower and shower pan. Pour it into the curb frame until the mud reaches the top of the wood frame making the top as level as you can. In the absence of a pre slope below the shower pan the pan will be flat on the floor surface keeping any of that water in the concrete from percolating down and into the weep holes of the shower drain.
Wait 24 hours before removing the frame and scraping the newly set mud smooth with a drywall knife. Repair cracked grout tile over tile shower floor never seal again super grout additive duration. Mix the mud according to manufacturer instructions. If this was helpful please contribute to me patreon or paypal thank you.
Follow steps for tiling a shower wall. In a tiled shower removing the pan is easier since the pan is caulked into place at the bottom edge of the tiling. For this example we ll use a drain that is in the center of the shower pan. There is no overlapping fiberglass wall to impede the removal of the pan.
Simply cut the caulking and drain pipe to remove the shower pan. The drain can be anywhere on the pan as long as we slope the concrete for proper drainage. Use a tile ring to avoid cutting or nipping your tile into a circle around your drain.