New shower install
Hey All,
I am planning a new shower install for my utility room bathroom. Currently it is a half bath with a floor drain on a slab. I plan to use that waste pipe for my shower drain pipe. It is a decent place for a drain but not so convenient as to allow the use of a ready made pan. I wanted to run through my plan and materials quickly for some feedback. First off I have laid tile, wood floors, concrete and laminate floors but never a shower (as a DIY).
shower is 42"x38", the planned wallboard is the Laticrete hydroban board, dry pack pan with a flo fx drain. the whole shower will additionally be coated with hydro ban liquid water proofer. Then tiled with 12x24 porcelain on the walls.
Order of operations is to remove drywall, add third wall, plum and square up studs. Install the hydroban board, build curb (with 2" thick kerdi board). Prep and install drain flange. set up screeding system (Isaac's training wheel method). Build dry pack pan. water proof whole shower with hydro ban liquid. install floor tile, install wall tile per Isaac's method with the ledger board. grout, and then install door.
As mentioned before I have done some small concrete jobs but never a shower pan so I plan to set up a practice pan too.
I plan to use the hydro ban board despite the additional price just to be super conservative with my first shower. Also after watching starr tile go on about wall board in the shower pan. I figure if the waterproofing wirks out then it wont matter. If the waterproofing fails then moisture wicking up the walls doesn't matter much anyway.
Thank you for the help.
I have done a lot, but none of that can teach your hands to float a pan. The hydroban board is hard to find here in Austin, but I found one supplier with it. A few tried to talk me into fiberboard as being just and water proof.