Series: How to Build a Traditional Shower Floor
This series covers building a traditionally waterproofed shower floor using a clamping drain and rubber liner. Each step builds on the previous one.
- Building the curb and installing the pre-slope
Creating the foundation that ensures water moves toward the drain — not into your framing. - Positioning and installing the shower liner
Correct placement of the liner over the pre-slope and into the drain assembly. - Forming the liner around the curb and flood testing
Properly wrapping the curb and verifying the liner is watertight before moving forward. - Finishing the drain and forming the level perimeter
Setting drain height and creating a consistent, level perimeter for the final mud bed. - Tying in wall waterproofing and finishing the mud bed
Integrating the walls with the floor and completing the final sloped surface. - Building a shower floor – Video <-You are here
Time-lapse video of creating a shower floor
Since I’m just a tile guy I”m not usually up on all the new technological crap that has nothing to do with tile, like online video or the ‘SlapChop’. I’ve decided that since I spend most of my days in other people’s showers that I should get out more and learn something else.
So naturally, since I own kitchen knives and don’t need a SlapChop, I decided to make a video about a tile subject. So here is my first video, sans sound because in audio I sound like a drunk leprechaun, for my readers. Umm – that’s you.
And since I actually have a day job and bills to pay all you get is a time-lapse photography of the creation of a mud deck for a tiled shower floor. But I’m gonna call it a tile video ’cause Google loves that shit. 
