Kerdi Shower Pan On Sloped Floor

Running parallel to the 60 side of the shower.

Kerdi shower pan on sloped floor.

Thin set 1 4 backer board then use self leveler over the top. Add 1 2 plywood shimmed and screwed to joists. The matching floor drain system schlüter kerdi drain base is available as a set. Thin set kerdi pan to that.

The sloped trays which have optional levelling boards are available in different dimensions. In a curbless shower the top of the curb essentially becomes the flat part of the bathroom floor. A sloped tile shower pan with a linear drain view all 34 photos tile contractor tom bouchard shows how to make a tile ready watertight sloped shower pan with a linear drain using schluter kerdi board kerdi membrane and thinset mortar. Code also requires the slope of the shower floor to be between 1 4 per foot and 1 2 per foot.

The shower pan is the big worry the schluter simply didn t work well so we went with a poured and sloped floor and professionally tiled. The subfloor is tong grove 3 4 osb with joists at 16 o c. Thin set kerdi pan to plywood. A sloped tile shower pan with a linear drain.

Tile contractor tom bouchard shows how to make a tile ready watertight sloped shower pan with a linear drain using schluter kerdi board kerdi membrane and thinset mortar. Waterproof with kerdi over the drypack and then tile over that. Using thin set to slope shower floor you can do a single layer dry pack probably down to 1 so you re only raising the floor 1 not 3. The trays are available in 39 x 39 100 cm x 100 cm 55 x 55 140 cm x 140 cm 48 x 48 122 cm x 122 cm 36 x 72 91 cm x 183 cm 38 x 76 97 cm x 193 cm and 36 x 55 91 cm x 140 cm.

Schluter kerdi shower lt lts are prefabricated expanded polystyrene sloped trays with integrated kerdi waterproofing specifically designed to accept the kerdi line linear drain. Shower curbs and shower doors can disappear offering freedom and security to individuals with limited mobility or homeowners wanting to age in place. Dimpled floors uneven slope to the drain just a big mess. I spent a lot of dough on the schluter thing the work was double checked and it still did not perform in our application.