[Greenbuilding] DIY sloped tiled shower floor, simple version?
Lynelle Hamilton
lynelle at lahamilton.com
Sun Jul 30 20:39:44 CDT 2017
I've had two curbless showers (both installed in a concrete slab).
Sloped both to the drain (3") cement, epdm, mortar and tile (flat stones
in the last one). Worked like a charm. NEVER had any overflow problems.
Will install one in the new place, but use a strip drain as mentioned in
previous posts.
Lynelle
On 2017-07-30 7:07 PM, Norbert Senf wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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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