Re: building a new shower pan

Posted by RicodJour on January 24, 2008, 12:02 am

> To All:
> I'm going to build a custom shower pan for the purpose of tiling.
> I've never done anything like this before, so I want to make sure I'm
> doing this right...
> I'll be putting this in my basement, on the concrete slab. This
> shower is going to replace the fiberglass shower pan that was
> destroyed and removed. Most instructions I see for doing this call for
> laying down roof paper, or some type of barrier, before putting down
> the initial sloping sand mix,. This, i understand is designed to
> preven moisture from wicking into the concrete.
> If I'm putting sand mix down, and then a 40 MIL CPE liner, and then
> thickset, and then the thinset and tile, do I need the roof paper at
> the bottom? Or is this for putting a shower on a plywood base?
> Any thoughts/suggestions/words of wisdom?

Get your hands on Michael Byrne's book, Setting Tile put out by the
Taunton Press (of Fine Homebuilding fame). Your local library
probably has a copy but it's definitely worth owning. You should also
visit the John Bridge tile forums. There are a lot of pros and
skilled amateurs that frequent those forums and are quite helpful and
encouraging.

R

Posted by Todd on January 26, 2008, 9:10 am

Thanks for the advice.

Do you know if it covers building a shower pan on an existing basement
slab? My primary concern is making sure the pan is built correctly for
being placed on a slab. All instructions that I have are for placing
the shower pan on a plywood subfloor.

- Thanks,

Todd

> > To All:
> > I'm going to build a custom shower pan for the purpose of tiling.
> > I've never done anything like this before, so I want to make sure I'm
> > doing this right...
> > I'll be putting this in my basement, on the concrete slab. This
> > shower is going to replace the fiberglass shower pan that was
> > destroyed and removed. Most instructions I see for doing this call for
> > laying down roof paper, or some type of barrier, before putting down
> > the initial sloping sand mix,. This, i understand is designed to
> > preven moisture from wicking into the concrete.
> > If I'm putting sand mix down, and then a 40 MIL CPE liner, and then
> > thickset, and then the thinset and tile, do I need the roof paper at
> > the bottom? Or is this for putting a shower on a plywood base?
> > Any thoughts/suggestions/words of wisdom?

> Get your hands on Michael Byrne's book, Setting Tile put out by the
> Taunton Press (of Fine Homebuilding fame). Your local library
> probably has a copy but it's definitely worth owning. You should also
> visit the John Bridge tile forums. There are a lot of pros and
> skilled amateurs that frequent those forums and are quite helpful and
> encouraging.
> R

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