Improperly Sloped Shower Floor Tile

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.

Improperly sloped shower floor tile.

Ie one that sloped towards a drain. Leave the mortar to cure. I will show you in this video a step by step process how to do it. This being thailand of course chopping out the tiles and redoing the floor is a lot cheaper then buying a pre fab shower cabin.

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. Smooth the mud out and create a 1 4 inch slope per foot of shower floor space toward the drain. Gerries the floor can be sloped perfectly on the top but that has nothing to do with the slope of the liner beneath. Mark a chalk line across the center of the floor in a north south direction and a second line across.

So i ve got an issue in my shower where some of the tiles near the wall are lower than the tiles around them. Water penetrates the shower tile assembly until it meets the waterproofing. Typical slope for a shower floor is 1 8 to 3 16 inch per foot across. I think i figured out what went wrong.

Or fill the gap with grout. Liner or other this is normal. It can also compromise the integrity of your. 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.

March 1st 2018 update. Are you looking for an easy way on how to slope a shower pan. Pack deck mud onto the floor over the mesh starting at the drain and working your way toward the walls. Using a wood float trowel.

Unfortunately if the liner is laid flat or has a low spot water will sit there instead of weeping to the drain. Before 2014 the standard for rating the slip resistance was based on the static coefficient of friction scof determined by the astm international test method c1028. But keep in mind that improperly trimmed tiles and excessive grout doesn t just look unsightly. The pooling and puddling is bothering me.

I did a proper slope but it was done on an undeveloped concrete floor. Additionally you can also cut the tile to fill the gap between floor and wall. This is causing water to pool there instead of going towards the drain.