John Bridge Drypack Shower Floor

Learn how to work with dry pack mortar to float a shower pan.

John bridge drypack shower floor.

This is a lot of dry pack mud and need to know which is the fastest way to mix all this. The pre slope is a slight slope of the floor draining toward the shower drain created with dry pack cement before the shower pan is installed. Making deck mud dry pack mortar for tiled shower floors and other uses john p. It is a traditional with a mortar preslope then pvc liner then drypack over the pvc liner.

I thought i have read that mapei ultraflex i or ii would be fine for both the shower floor 2 x 2 porcelain mosaic onto the drypack. But the article and pictures in john bridge s tile your world book show the bench built on top of the pvc liner before the final layer of floor is poured. The site has a two pronged mission. I have been slowly constucting a shower using info from searching this forum.

Despite what you may think water can and will penetrate all the way through the tile mortar and concrete above the shower pan making its way down to the shower pan. I recently had a dry pack 20 sq. Bridge may 2006 despite everything that s been written on the proper way to make dry pack mortar there still seems to be a great deal of uncertainty on the part of weekend warriors and even a few pros have trouble with the concept. Inches top layer deck mud thickness 1 25 1 50 1 75 2 00 2 25 2 50 inches preslope layer deck mud thickness at wall 0 50 0 75 1 00 1 25 1 50 1 75 2 00 2 25 2 50 inches.

Want to lock the bed in tight and strong with no grit residue the nxt day saturate the wire lathe prior to dumping your dry pack it also keeps the mud very workable after screeding a section i follow up with wood float to sand out high spots then final with steel trowel to a fine finish a step some guys. Ft installed by a plumber over a concrete floor in a new shower installation as i prepared to tile over it i found crumbly spots on the surface and discovered what sounded like hollow spots below the surface near the drain and at the perimeter. I am needing to pour a lot of dry pack on the pre slope of a shower floor which is 60 x92. You will learn how to properly mix dry pack mortar form the screeds pull the mortar to ensure a consistent pitch or perfectly flat substrate.

I wanted to work on top of the floor instead of the liner so that.