Shower Floor Ideas Needed

[krux]

Hey guys just bought a house a couple of months ago and curious on what you would do with this project. Here is the picture below of the shower floor. I am trying to get a ideas what I can do with it. How do you tell if it has a shower pan liner? From what I can tell its a concrete slap with water proofing on it slopped down to a big drain. Any idea's that are cheap and effective? Could i just water proof it again and put some acrylic tiles over it and cut a hole and then silicon around it(based and drain)? Or should i put a pan liner and then put motor with tiles on it? I was hoping to make it not slippery.

 

[Regnar]

You can drill a hole on the backside of the shower. You will want to look down low. Most will have the shower pan liner go up the wall a few inches. Depending on when it was installed you can have anything from a Orange Membrane to Roofing Felt. But you will notice it being a different material that is not drywall and not concrete board.

Is this a garage or basement shower. If so you can cover it with epoxy flooring that has sand mixed in with it. You will have to scuff up the covering on it now to make a better bond.

There is lots of info on how to do this job right on the interent. One thing I notice in your pic is the slope is very aggressive. If I remember right you only need 1/4 inch drop over 12 inches. This way you dont slip. Also to do a shower pan right you are looking at gutting that whole shower not just the floor.

 

[White 99]

If you take up the screen you might see some lower drain holes. On mine they are an inch of so below the screen. Mine has three 1/4 inch elongated up and down holes. These holes drain the morter bed that is below the tiles and above the liner/floor pan. I suppose if you didn't have the drain holes inside the drain then you don't have a liner or pan.

 

[krux]

Thank you for the information guys. I will see if I can get a flashlight and shine through that drain. It is a very aggressive drain and they concreted that drain on it like that so it wont be able to be removed. It's a very goofy design and not sure what the contractor was thinking at the time. They did a nice tile job around the shower. This shower will not be used that much just maybe in a blue moon. 10 years from now I am gutting the whole bathroom and making it bigger.