How To Build A Tile Shower Base

Also make sure your floor is pre sloped before installing the rubber liner in the following steps to prevent future mold and mildew.

How to build a tile shower base. Although fiberglass units make shower pans quick and easy they lack the elegance of a handcrafted mortar and tile floor. The base needs to have a drain an edged frame and tiles for the decorative finish. Measure the distances between the studs on your walls where you plan on building your shower pan and write them down.

Despite what you may think water can and will penetrate all the way through the tile mortar and concrete above the shower pan making its way down to the shower pan. So if you d like to install a tile shower and are willing to build. Use a circular saw to cut boards that are 2 by 6 inches 5 1 cm 15 2 cm to size based on the measurements you took.

Before that was possible pros had to build a custom shower pan by mixing and applying mortar troweling it flat and laying ceramic shower floor tile. The primary goal of the shower base is to create a sloped floor angled toward the drain so the waste water flows efficiently into the pipes.