The problem is that we are pretty much complete amateurs this is our first home and we don t know how to deal with the fact that we have a slope in one side of the room that goes to a floor drain.
How to tile a laundry room floor with drain.
Make sure you use special underlayment plywood recommended for use under vinyl floors and follow the manufacturer s instructions for installing it.
The laundry room floor drain is one of those things that you notice but you don t pay much attention to until there is a problem.
The laundry room floor drain is typically a 4 inch round diameter hole located at the lowest point of the room which is usually installed in the basement floor during the construction phase of a build.
Cut a hole in the laundry room floor.
I removed 12 x12 glued down vinyl tiles or what i believe were vinyl and was thinking of either replacing them with glue down vinyl tiles again peel and stick vinyl tiles or sheet vinyl.
We have a 10 x10 basement cement laundry room that has a floor drain in the center that the floor slopes to.
Before any tile could get installed the subfloor needed to be prepped with some cement board which is a preferred surface for tile installation.
The floor drain is used for the water softener which has 2 hoses running from it to the drain cover.
With a two inch hole saw or jigsaw cut a two inch hole in the laundry room floor at the intended drain location.
Hi i m in the midst of renos of my basement and am adding a 5 x 7 laundry room to the space.
Use your chalk snap line to divide the room into four squares with two lines intersecting at the center of the floor.
If the drain is at the center of the floor re adjust your lines so the intersection sits off one side of the drain with at least a full tile s worth of space between the intersection and the edge of the drain.
This method raises the height about 3 8 in.
We re completely enamored with this floor and there s a budding romance that involves a saw so let s cover the laundry room tile installation from floor prep to grouting sealing.