| If it wasn't for the shower pan, a diy tile shower | | | | leaky mess. What makes the shower work is a |
| would be easy. But even professional tile setters | | | | waterproof liner that's built into the masonry base of |
| argue about the best way to build a shower pan. | | | | the shower. |
| The traditional way to build a pan is mortar | | | | Getting that liner installed is tricky to say the least. |
| construction. Here's why it's tricky and here's another | | | | Get it wrong and it's going to cost you. And it's easy |
| way. | | | | to get wrong too. Even if you get it right, the |
| It's like this. Tile floors aren't waterproof. Water goes | | | | masonry floor still can stay wet all the time. That's |
| right through the grout in the floor and even through | | | | how you end up with a floor that's just full of mold. |
| the tile itself. That's a perfect set-up for a moldy, | | | | There's another way. |