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

Norbert Senf norbert.senf at gmail.com
Sun Jul 30 18:07:54 CDT 2017


This page has good instructions, including a video of how to do the EPDM
corners:
https://www.askmediy.com/how-to-make-a-shower-pan/


On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 7:01 PM, Reuben Deumling <9watts at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> === * ===
>> Rob Tom T6015O
>> Kanata, Ontario, Canada
>>
>> < A r c h i L o g i c at Y a h o o dot C a >
>>
>> (manually winnow the chaff from my edress if you hit "Reply")
>>
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