Doing A Mud Shower Floor

The floor outside the shower was acid stained and sealed with stamp seal gloss acrylic from surface koatings.

Doing a mud shower floor. He added silica to the coating to give the shower floor more traction. That s pretty much how shower floors are formed. Deck mud also known as floor mud or dry pack mortar is a simple mixture of sand portland cement and water. Whether you ll be installing tile over your shower s concrete floor or leaving it bare you will need to use a mixture called deck mud to form the shower s base.

A typical walk in shower built on the first floor of a home will be able to rest its weight on the joists without concern. Designed for thickness range of 3 4 75 to 8 us standard metric. Unless your significant other is dead set on having tile this is the easier way to go. Pour mud into the shower pan mixing it with a trowel as you go to get rid of air bubbles.

There are two ways to install a shower. He sealed the shower walls and ceiling with two coats of the company s polykoat gl polyaspartic diluting the first coat for deeper penetration. Use a 5 gallon bucket to transfer the mud. One is by using a preformed shower pan.

Designed for thickness range of 19 05 to 203 2. This includes mud floated showers. The mortar is packed in with a wood float or flat steel trowel and rubbed or scraped off until the dish shape of the shower floor is attained. Either way you still need the sakrete sand mix.

The shower drain must be set to its proper level before placing the shower floor mud usually about 1 1 2 to 2 inches from the sub floor is sufficient. However if there is no talking him or her out of tile then by all means you can lay the tile on the mortar bed.