How Do You Build A Shower Pan?
Making a proper shower pan is the most important step in making a solid, water tight shower. It seems easy to do, but unless done properly can lead to disasters with leaks and wandering water. A shower pan is a mortar bed that slopes into a drain. Sounds easy, doesn’t it? If you wish to build a shower, you can probably build the pan yourself, if you do it carefully. Let’s find out how. Step 1 Use a multi-layered approach for building a shower pan. Use a waterproof membrane and a mortar bed. Step 2 Start with the drain. The drain is the only place for water to go in a shower. If the drain gets clogged, the water will fill the shower and run onto the floor. Use a clamping ring drain. The top half works just like an ordinary drain and the bottom half provides backup drainage. Put the supporting flange of the drain directly on the plywood subfloor. It will be kept in place with mortar you install later. Step 3 Create a sloped floor with a thin, latex-modified mortar bed. The minimum recomm
