Palm Springs Meiselman Reborn

Shower Pan

All the plumbing and electrical work is done with the exception of new stem valves and misc. little stuff. The shower demo and new shower pan are done! When I got down to demo-ing the old shower pan (which had rotted out) I discovered that there really wasn't a shower pan at all... They just poured the mortar on the sand. I neglected to take any pictures, but there were roots all around the drain. Now normally, you have several layers to a shower pan (the floor of your shower)

1) sub-floor, either wood or concrete
2) liner (either lead in old homes, or new PVC vinyl)
3) mortar bed
4) thin set
5) tile

We didn't have 1 or 2. No sub-floor, just mortar on desert sand, and no liner, thus the reason it failed. It didn't exist!

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But now everything should be good to go. We'll hang cement board this week and begin tiling soon