Making A Concrete Shower Floor

Typical slope for a shower floor is 1 8 to 3 16 inch per foot across.

Making a concrete shower floor.

Drive a nail into the floor every 8 12 inches 20 30 cm so the tar paper stays in place. Leave the mortar to cure. Tar paper protects your subfloor if water ever gets underneath your shower pan. Secure a layer of tar paper to the floor to block moisture.

Remember tile and mortar are not waterproof. Mix in water and more concrete mix following the manufacturer s instructions until the result is the consistency of a milkshake. Water and water damage. The shower walls and ceiling are precast 1 inch thick polished concrete panels.

Using concrete mix create a 1 4 per foot slope to the shower drain. The floor is concrete as well trowel applied over a wood subfloor and sloped to eliminate a curb around the concrete shower pan which was cast in place to match the floor. Pour a layer of mortar over top of the shower membrane and form the slope down towards the drain hole. Concrete may seem like an odd material to use in a bathroom but it has several qualities that make it an appealing choice.

Create the concrete mixture pour concrete mix into a bucket until it s about one third full. Pre slope is required in order to allow water collected on the shower membrane to drain into the weep holes of your shower drain assembly. Diy step by step instructions on how to build a mortar shower pan.