A Tile Shower Pan may be the biggest mystery of Repair

A tile shower pan is one of the great mysteries of home repair or construction. Nothing to do with tile shower is usually left to the professionals. There is a reason for that too! But sometimes useful to install showers people themselves once they see the mysteries disclosed.

View real tile shower trick is hidden under the floor. You can not see the hard part of the top of the shower or the background to the case. Not long ago my tiled shower started leaking. The water had soaked the hardwood floor in the bedroom. This is how I noticed. Finally saw the grout cracked near the floor, but I thought there was a shower pan in the shower, so why is leaking?

Here is the first.

Tile floors are not waterproof. Water seeps right through the tile shower floor, especially through the grout. Masonry grout is porous so that water slurry slowly absorbed and then goes through him. That's why you need a shower pan. View the shower pan is actually a waterproof liner under the soil surface, which traps water.

But then where does the water go from there?

Ah, there's another trick. A tile shower drain is a special design with two layers drainage holes. The drainage layer at the base is actually below ground, and that an impermeable layer that the water is sent. So the shower pan is built in three layers, so that all water is captured and sent down the drain.

Three layers?

The bottom layer is built on sloping masonry on the subfloor or concrete. The bottom layer tracks to help send the water down the drain. The top of the bottom layer is aligned with the bottom drainage holes. The second layer is the lining of waterproof material is resistant sheet vinyl is glued to the drainage base for a pool safe water to drink all the water which filters through the soil. The top layer is another layer that is shed masonry and bent over the line. This is the basis for the shower floor.

That is the trick for a shower – the dipping beds and sea water to two layers of drain holes. If the waterproof membrane fails or is not installed properly, the shower will escape. As you probably know, leaking shower floor can be very expensive. It really makes sense to take a shower pan done right.

Now you have other options in the construction of a shower. Several materials can be used for bases, but the traditional construction is hard to beat for price and performance. In addition, you can learn to do it yourself if you want.

So the real mystery of a tile shower drain is special. The drain has a bottom layer of holes drainage can not be seen. A waterproof liner is built into the floor of the shower and catches all the water that can seep through the floor of the shower. When your shower leak impermeable coating has probably failed.

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