How Do You Build A Ceramic Tile Shower?
Building a ceramic tile shower is not a particularly hard project–it just takes about a week and a lot of patience. Planning everything out and having all the tools and materials you need will make the project go much smoother. Creating the shower pan is the most difficult part, but you can purchase a pre-made one if you don’t like to do cement work. Measure the floor area that must be covered for your new shower. Measure the drain hole. Cut 3/4-inch plywood to fit and cut out the drain hole. Assuming you have gutted the area where a tub or old shower used to be, nail the plywood to the floor studs. Cut pieces of a 2-by-10 to fit between the studs in the walls on three sides of the shower. Nail them in place between the studs. You can do this by nailing two small pieces of wood inside each stud back far enough so when you nail the 2-by-10 to them, it will be flush with the studs. Build a curb. If you’ve taken out a bathtub, most likely you will need to build a curb to keep water from
