Working on my main bath reno. Has anyone inset a Schluter shower pan into the floor to form the base for a curbless shower?
I have sufficient floor thickness, we are tiling the entire bathroom floor, full height tile in the shower area and tile wainscotting in the balance. I would probably run the Schluter membrane out past the adjacent toilet for good measure.
This is our completed ensuite; pulled the tub, built the shower, and did a little tiling 🙂
Love to hear your experienced feedback.
David
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I have done this twice and bith times built up the floor
this time I used a quick drain and it only requires an inch
I've used the trays, but I've never dropped it down into a curbless.
One concern... you wrote "I would probably run the membrane out past the toilet for god measure."
Not sure if this is being inspected or not, or how attentive or concerned you are regarding code. But realize that for code compliance, were you to plug the shower drain and flood the shower, your curbless shower pan needs to hold a depth of 2" of water at the drain without flooding anything else in the house.
Schluter trays are generally pitched at 1/4" per foot, so for example, if you used a 48" square tray you'd have 2' or a half-inch drop inside the shower. You need to make up the other 1-1/2" of vertical drop elsewhere in the floor outside the shower. You can gain it by sloping the bathroom floor to the shower, or by building a curb at the bathroom door. With the curb at the bathroom door you'd also have to address water going under the toilet, water as the bathroom wall baseboards, water going under the tub, water as the toekicks of the vanity, etc.
So a curbless shower often times turns into making the entire bathroom a wet room. Ditra on the bathroom floors, the ditra seams sealed with strips of Kerdi, Kerdi lapped up the walls a bit, the toilet flangedetailed, etc, etc.
Sorry if I went overboard.
In a nutshell, think of having a 2" depth of water over the shower drain, then think how far out into the bathroom that "puddle" will travel, and design the bathroom to contain that water within the bathroom.