Improperly Sloped Shower Floor Tile

The pooling and puddling is bothering me.

Improperly sloped shower floor tile.

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. Pack deck mud onto the floor over the mesh starting at the drain and working your way toward the walls. I think i figured out what went wrong. And after installing the floor tile you can install that final or first row of wall tile.

Water penetrates the shower tile assembly until it meets the waterproofing. So i ve got an issue in my shower where some of the tiles near the wall are lower than the tiles around them. 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. 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.

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. This is causing water to pool there instead of going towards the drain. Typical slope for a shower floor is 1 8 to 3 16 inch per foot across. This being thailand of course chopping out the tiles and redoing the floor is a lot cheaper then buying a pre fab shower cabin.

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. I did a proper slope but it was done on an undeveloped concrete floor. Or fill the gap with grout. 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. Using a wood float trowel. Additionally you can also cut the tile to fill the gap between floor and wall. Unfortunately if the liner is laid flat or has a low spot water will sit there instead of weeping to the drain.

But keep in mind that improperly trimmed tiles and excessive grout doesn t just look unsightly. Liner or other this is normal. Are you looking for an easy way on how to slope a shower pan. Mark a chalk line across the center of the floor in a north south direction and a second line across.

March 1st 2018 update. I will show you in this video a step by step process how to do it. It can also compromise the integrity of your.