[Greenbuilding] DIY sloped tiled shower floor, simple version?

[Reuben Deumling]

I'm coming around to the curb idea. I thought I'd learned here in response
to a previous question that a curb was unnecessary, but with a plugged
drain scenario, yeah...

EPDM pan sounds good to me. Would you slope the floor beneath the EPDM? Is
this a matter of sourcing some of it and carefully folding the corners?
Mortar - I can work with that.

On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 3:33 PM, RT <ArchiLogic at yahoo.ca> wrote:

> Reuben;
> Can't see any sketch and I don't know what you've seen on-line but IMO,
> plopping down some mortar on top of an EPDM pan is a lot easier and quicker
> nd ultimately less costly in terms of time and materials  than futzing with
> wood and cement board to make a sloped shower floor tile base.
>
> re: No curb
>
> Let's say the shower drain gets plugged with hair (or worse) and someone
> has turned on the shower and let it run unattended (or similar) and a few
> gallons of water have not found their way down the drain.  Could easily
> happen.
>
> How does the "no curb" design handle such a scenario ?  Is there a gutter
> somewhere else that leads to a drain ?
>
>
>
> On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 15:23:23 -0400, Reuben Deumling <9watts at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Is there any reason I can't cut a bunch of shallow wedges laid in a radial
> pattern that feather toward the drain, nail cement board on top, tape the
> seams and lay down the tile?
>
> This seems a lot simpler than some of the instructions I find online. My
> sketch above doesn't include any membrane or treatment of the seams where
> this sloped floor meets walls. The shower in question is in the corner of a
> small upstairs bathroom. The walls will be tiled and I would like/think I
> can get away with avoiding a step/lip where the sloped floor meets the rest
> of the bathroom floor
>
> All thoughts and suggestions are welcome.
>
> Thanks
> Reuben
>
>
>
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> Kanata, Ontario, Canada
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