Preparing Shower Base For Tile On Concrete Floor

Cut the tiles and dry fit them again to ensure a snug fit.

Preparing shower base for tile on concrete floor.

Wear rubber gloves and safety glasses. Using concrete mix create a 1 4 per foot slope to the shower drain. Right before you re ready wipe the concrete shower pan with a damp sponge to remove any remaining. Shower bases are easy to fix easy to clean fewer chances of leakages.

Before tiling a shower be sure the drain and sub floor are properly seal. The subfloor needs to be a minimum of two layers of 3 4 inch exterior grade plywood before you can move to actually putting down the concrete layer of deck mud that provides the slope and the base. Follow along to learn how to fabricate a custom shower base in your bathroom. This how to video is a quick excerpt from a diy show.

Lay the tiles down on a dry. Lay a set of tiles along the lines without adhesive to dry fit a row. Pick up the tile nearest. Installing your tiles take all your measurements and do a dry run to lay the tiles out before getting started.

If there are cracks larger than 1 8 inch in your concrete subfloor those should be patched and filled with a cement. 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. In addition shower bases come in various shapes and designs. Remember tile and mortar are not waterproof.

Concrete subfloors move shift and crack over time. Shift the tiles as needed to reduce the number of tiles that need to be cut for the edges of the wall. Watch as homeowners learn to pour a shower base and prep the floor for tiling. How to install a shower base on the concrete floor has been a question in many people s mind.