Dorrough
New Member
I put in my first tile floor this year and it went great. I put down cement board, mortar bed, tiles, laid it all out square and bedded everything level like the book said. It went totally well. The tiles are perfectly flat and level, no edges sticking up anywhere, grout joints are great. So I'm thinking that maybe I CAN do the shower. This is new construction: the bathroom is framed in and right now we have a shower base we got from Lowe's for $10 because there was a chunk broken out of a front corner.
I'm a bit intimidated by the process ... all the books say this is not trivial, you can screw it up. The toughest part seems to be laying out the mortor bed for the tiles on the floor - it has to be just the right angle to drain, and flat enough so the tiles don't crack, and never leak. I don't want to screw it up, but I do want to do it myself if I time and patience can make up for lack of experience. So do you all think it's do-able? Is there an especially good how-to guide? Any sneaky thing that won't be documented?
I'm a bit intimidated by the process ... all the books say this is not trivial, you can screw it up. The toughest part seems to be laying out the mortor bed for the tiles on the floor - it has to be just the right angle to drain, and flat enough so the tiles don't crack, and never leak. I don't want to screw it up, but I do want to do it myself if I time and patience can make up for lack of experience. So do you all think it's do-able? Is there an especially good how-to guide? Any sneaky thing that won't be documented?