Improperly Sloped Shower Floor Tile

This is causing water to pool there instead of going towards the drain.

Improperly sloped shower floor tile.

Pack deck mud onto the floor over the mesh starting at the drain and working your way toward the walls. The pooling and puddling is bothering me. If the deck mud was properly sloped all you d need is the standard 1 8 thickness of thinset to bond the standard 3 16 to 1 4 thick tile to the sloped and hydrobaned shower floor. Leave the mortar to cure.

However in the 2012 edition of the american national standards institute s american national standard specifications for ceramic tile anai a137 1 a new method testing conditions and threshold value. The beauty of a topical membrane like hydroban is that with the hydroban membrane being right below the tile there can be no deep wetting of the shower floor like. It can also compromise the integrity of your. I think i figured out what went wrong.

Mark a chalk line across the center of the floor in a north south direction and a second line across. Gerries the floor can be sloped perfectly on the top but that has nothing to do with the slope of the liner beneath. Ie one that sloped towards a drain. But keep in mind that improperly trimmed tiles and excessive grout doesn t just look unsightly.

This being thailand of course chopping out the tiles and redoing the floor is a lot cheaper then buying a pre fab shower cabin. Typical slope for a shower floor is 1 8 to 3 16 inch per foot across. Water penetrates the shower tile assembly until it meets the waterproofing. I will show you in this video a step by step process how to do it.

Smooth the mud out and create a 1 4 inch slope per foot of shower floor space toward the drain. Or fill the gap with grout. Are you looking for an easy way on how to slope a shower pan. But not hard to have someone remove tile and redo slope to drain if in normal corner location but likely to still have some water to slowly dry after any shower.

Using a wood float trowel. So i ve got an issue in my shower where some of the tiles near the wall are lower than the tiles around them. I did a proper slope but it was done on an undeveloped concrete floor. If i squeegee most of the excess surface water with my feet haha after a shower there would still be a few puddles the next day.

And after installing the floor tile you can install that final or first row of wall tile. Unfortunately if the liner is laid flat or has a low spot water will sit there instead of weeping to the drain. Liner or other this is normal.