How To Tile A Sloped Shower Floor

The following five part series gives a basic overview of building a shower floor for tile.

How to tile a sloped shower floor.

Tiling a shower floor is pretty similar to tiling the shower wall. It s easy to cut and install and already sloped at the right angle. It will take some time and patience the first time you do it but the reward is that you ll have a perfectly sloped shower pan. Often i will used a pre formed shower floor that is part of the kerdi waterproofing system.

When tiling a shower one of the most important things to remember is that you need extra cuts in the tiles to make sure they follow the fall of the floor a. When installing a tile shower it s important to make sure the floor is sloped correctly toward the drain with no spots that will encourage pooling or standing water. If you would like a complete step by step of the entire process with all the little idiosyncrasies and details i now have manuals describing the complete process for you from bare wall studs all the way up to a completely waterproof shower substrate for your tile. A shower floor without enough pitch usually puddles and holds water.

You should be aware the shower floor is slightly sloped to ensure that water runs into the drain. Enough half inch cement board to cover the shower floor a built in shower floor is actually two layers of sloped cement with a plastic liner between them. This is because shower floors or shower pans as they re. Soap scum and water deposits form in these wet areas which makes the tile and grout look dirty.

Follow steps for tiling a shower wall. Once you ve screeded the slope use a wood float to pack the mud down. Continue this process around the entire shower pan. Building one is among the most complicated home renovation jobs you can undertake.