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Basement Shower
We have a trapped 2 inch drain in the floor of the old laundry room that we are making into a bathroom. The floor is slightly sloped to the drain. It is a concrete basement floor. Question... To create the shower over the existing drain, do we need to get a poured cement pan or can we build a frame around it and tile directly on the existing cement floor? So, the floor of the shower would be the concrete floor of the basement with tile on top.
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Why bother tiling the floor at all? Just enclose the sloped floor and you have a basement shower without all the hassle. My father did that in our old home back in Wisconsin. However, if you wish to tile and the slope's correct you could lay a thin layer of mortar down and tile directly to the existing cement. Good luck, Tom
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