Installing a Shower Pan Base | Tub to Shower

[Music] and at this point you can basically just pull this out [Applause] we got glue on this you put this in level the Trap arms and then we'll cut this down after we get the pan in it does that works great okay so we can put our drain assembly on so again you really want to now this pan is sitting in place make sure it's level so that looks good there foreign pressure I might have to put on the back part of the pan when I put my anchors in but this just kind of gives me indication of whether I have to level anything out so I'm going to be placing this in Mortar so in this instance I'm not really trying to level anything out all I'm doing is just pouring a slurry so that the pan has some kind of support underneath of it so it's not if it was going to be supportive and you're trying to un you know overcome unlevelness you want to make the mortar nice and stiff but in this instance we can make it nice and loose screw it in place and we'll be good to go okay so we're gonna go ahead and put our drain assembly on so you just want to get a nice big quarter inch joint of silicone around this and then we'll be installing the OD drain so you take your slip ring and your rubber gasket off and I'll do the same here put about a quarter inch bead all the way around here foreign place and you put your rubber gasket for your rubber gasket on this little paper slip ring and just connect this hand tightened so all you got to do not say anything excessive one here just wipe that off okay so before we put the plywood down we're gonna Drive fit this again make sure that this is going to slip over it correctly yeah it looks good so I want to thank uh excellent laborer for this idea basically once you get your pan nice and level just go ahead and Mark your studs so before I put that mortar base down I'll put this these marks up against this stud and they'll give me a reference point of where I'm supposed to be when I set this in Mortar so great idea Josh thank you okay so now we're going to go ahead and put our plywood down we'll probably end the re-setting this again after we get the plywood up but let's just go ahead and reinforce the rest here so we're going to get some blocking here because now we're missing some here so we'll go ahead and put some blocking in between here okay so just always make sure you have blocking everywhere obviously I didn't have anything in this corner a lot of time those fiberglass units you know they since they were all one piece it didn't really matter whether it had something in something in the corner but with tile you're going to need blocking everywhere in the corners for sure so just double check that so 35 inches [Applause] foreign a half inch hole around again you just want to double check this make things are level without having and see if there's any rocking or anything that you have to overcome here so it looks like we are going to have to get this up just a little bit foreign okay so we're going to be putting some new flooring on the outside of this new vinyl flooring so um we're just gonna have that shimmed up a little bit so we are going to make the the mortar just a little bit on the thick side to overcome this unlevelness um but really we're only talking about an eighth inch one other side here so you know the shims here we'll hold it up we're just going to keep those shims in here overnight while that mortar sets up so we're gonna go ahead and make some mortar pull this up set this in place and uh move on with the rest of the project okay so to set this mortar this pan we're going to use a four to one mud mix now obviously you could just use any type of mortar just make sure that it's not aggregated it doesn't have any rocks or anything in it but any mortar will really work but I like using the the mud bed mix this is what I use for regular shower pans so I always have this on hand so again we're going to make this a fairly um loose consistency but just give enough support to overcome that eighth inch so about three quarts of water or so three and a half quarts per bag but we'll we're going to start out with about three quarts and then go from there just get it a little bit thinner as we go foreign Okay so we've just put some plastic down just just to help keep that mortar from zapping out of the moisture with the plywood now it's not really that big of a deal um if you just go over the plywood but this actually is a better way to go so you can use felt paper you can use plastic just something that kind of isolates it again this is not necessarily to adhere anything to the plywood this is just to set it and have some support underneath of this base so let's go ahead and [Applause] get our mortar out so we want to get some support front here as well so usually I mean since it's fairly level like we're talking about an eighth inch out of level we really just need to make this pretty much even all the way across so about an inch inch and a quarter it's kind of hard to gauge how thick it is but don't worry about it it'll it'll kind of all maneuver out of this when you set the pan into place now obviously if you're really out of level you want to put more on the one side that's unlevel so that you can build it out as you can see these are the things that are supporting it so this will just kind of grab into that mortar a bit so you don't have to go all the way out to the edge here because there isn't anything here so it's mainly these supports here that are kind of holding things into place put this in the back corner here so reference your morks here and we want to shim this up a bit don't be afraid to walk on it foreign bit an eighth inch pilot bit galvanized screws okay so in order to cut the pipe down as you can see I have this hanging up outside of my shower pan we need to cut this down and what you want to do is basically have this pipe one inch into the fitting so if you measure down to the bottom of your fitting this is a two inch fitting so you basically want it one inch up into your OD fitting so if we measure to the top of our pipe we've got two and a half inches so we want to cut this pipe down an inch and a half now you can go ahead and use an inside pipe cutter these things work great they sometimes fall out of the drill and not exactly the easiest thing to get a nice accurate cut definitely works all you would do is just measure down an inch and a half mark your bit and then try to gauge that so that makes it a little bit difficult to gauge that properly so what I'm going to use now I bought one of these I think this is a great idea it's called the wheeler Rex and basically this has a little guide on it that you can adjust into your pipe so they can get an accurate cut so let's go ahead and measure so basically it just has a little set screw on the side and what we want to do is go down an inch and a half so measuring to our bit to the bottom because this this little Hub part here is going to be sliding into the drain so you want to just measure from your cutting blade to where you're going to stop it so inch and a half to the top of that pipe is all I need to cut just tighten this and now we'll make sure that we're cutting this an inch and a half down into our fitting just slide it in now this little blade has to push in this is what's actually cutting the pipe so you have to kind of push it in and then it's a little bit stubborn but you just kind of rock it back and forth until you get it flush with the top of the pipe so that's hitting the top of the pipe now and now we can go ahead and just cut our pipe that's all there is to it so that makes a nice clean cut and it's an inch down below my drain just take your utility knife just clean up any of these bars but much much easier than a regular inside pipe cutter okay so these gaskets they have a little beveled Edge that face is up so you want to slide that over your pipe and you can use a little screwdriver if you need to push that down you take your locking ring make sure these things are easy to kind of cross thread so make sure that your threading threading it in evenly see it already wants to go across thread there you go so just make sure it's not cross thread before you actually put some real tension on it okay and then you take your little metal holder here and just tighten that down and it'll basically squeeze that gasket against the pipe that's all there is to it so now it's a nice seal so I hope that demonstrations helped you out with your own project I do always recommend you get a mortar pan or a pan that allows you to embed it into mortar that'll make a lot more sturdy installation but if you're planning on trying to do this yourself definitely check out my course it's a three day tiled shower course is what I call it because I have a curriculum that I basically go through the entire project step by step in a three-day fashion so you'll be able to get all of these details all these videos along with guides on different recommendations I have for actual shower pans and a whole lot more information and best of all you could go down to the bottom of any of my tutorials if you have a question about your own specific bathroom I'm more than happy to help you out I'm really trying to make this platform easy streamlined and make it you know so that you can get on with your project and have a great looking shower when completed so thanks so much I'll see in the next video

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Length: 17min 4sec (1024 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 09 2023