How Do You Build A Shower Pan For Tile?
When you build the shower pan for tile, you will need to make sure that it is waterproof. If you don’t construct the pan properly, it will leak and you will have to tear out the entire shower and start again, or grow mushrooms for a living. You can build a shower pan with a membrane, preformed membrane or use the Schluter-KERDI system. This is a fabric shower pan and the easiest methods since it saves several steps and waterproofs the entire shower. Put a layer of plastic or roofing felt on the floor. This will prevent the flooring from absorbing water from the concrete and causing the concrete to dry too quickly. It also will provide extra water protection for the wood. On top of the plastic, put a layer of wire mesh. Staple it down. You now have the base for the concrete shower pan. Install concrete backerboard on the lower half of the walls and over the threshold. Measure the distance from the center of the drain to the edge. Using the scale of 1/4 inch for each foot, calculate the
