Uneven Shower Floor

No real shortcuts i know of best thing is to redo the professional way the whole floor.

Uneven shower floor. If it has you ll need to pull it up. Water needs to flow from the wall edges down and into the drain. My daughter s place has this since the shower is open and it only takes a minute or two to do.

Not only are uneven ceramic tiles unsightly but on a floor they also pose a trip hazard. Cuts down on cleaning too. Quite often the reason for uneven tiles is an uneven layer of thinset mortar holding tiles on the floor.

Any shower base is only as level as the floor it rests upon. A shower floor like the bottom of a bathtub is not supposed to be level. When you are dealing with uneven floors one option that you have is to use self leveling compound.

Get a floor squeegee and after shower direct all standing water into the drain. An uneven shower floor can prevent proper draining and dips in the flooring can cause puddling or potential wicking hazards. Hopefully your tiling hasn t been laid on an uneven bed.

Using a leveling compound will not accomplish this as the wall edges need to be higher than the drain. Not only does this make your shower look a little shoddy uneven tile can be painful to step on and may. This compound can potentially be utilized on a concrete slab or a wood subfloor and it works well when you are dealing with dips in the floor.

Soon the shower base will begin to pop and creak and it will give slightly when you stand on it. An uneven shower floor has tiles with edges and corners that stick up above the others. Tile installation requires grooves in the thinset to create air pockets which facilitate the adhesion of the tile.