Sunken Shower Pan Concrete Floor

Contractor pours concrete shower pan.

Sunken shower pan concrete floor.

Removed tub and removed slab to build a sunken shower stall. Concrete will absorb water and you will have no idea where it travels and what it is effecting. Just don t let the concrete slab trick you into thinking that you don t need to waterproof the shower pan because you do. The house is slab construction and the existing shower was built with a sunken floor 2 3 4 below the level of the main bathroom slab floor.

We share how to waterproof the shower pan cement board walls and entire bathroom floor using kbrs s showerseal. Remove the broken concrete with the pry bar. The shower basin is poured concrete on 3 walls and concrete block on one wall. Flush with the floor shower bases tub h on wooden floors.

If the wire mesh called a metal lathe located under the concrete does not come up. I m thinking of raising the drain then filling th. The original shower had a small step down to the tiled shower floor that served as the curb. Building a shower stall over a concrete slab is a straight forward process.

We are remodeling our master shower. But we want to do a zero curb. This step is critical and we dive into grea. Break up the concrete floor of the shower into 1 foot sections.