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

[Reuben Deumling]

I do love this list. Can't believe I've been pestering you folks with
questions for almost 18 years here.
I am not familiar with a strip drain in a shower, though I think I
understand the thinking that would suggest looking into something like
this. Are there examples of these you could point me to?

thanks all!

On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 6:39 PM, Lynelle Hamilton <lynelle at lahamilton.com>
wrote:

> 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> 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 >
>>>
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>>>
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