Upstairs shower install, help!

[Redwood]

No!
You would use either a premanufactured base, or, make a base...

Either way you want to do the wall with the Kerdi that I linked above.

Personally I'd forget the manufactured base and do it up nice.
It's a lot easier than your thinking.
Check out that John Bridge Site!

[tanner3155]

Yes, I have looked at the Kerdi installation on the Bridge website. It doesn't look bad. The only thing that threw me is that I don't have any experience with cement/mortar and how to level it just right. I'd be afraid I'd level the base wrong and the pan would be screwed up. Also, this is in an upstairs condo and I don't have a large area to do much heavy mixing if that's necessary?? Also I'm concerned about setting the drain the right height and about the the connection to the waste pipe. I still want to have a plumber give me an estimate on him hooking that part up but I'm sure that will be pretty expensive. If I do this from scratch with pictures could you walk me through it? Another thing I just remembered, I have to get a shower door which I'm assuming should be measured out to see how high up the tiling needs to go?

I went to home depot but didn't see any Schluter/Kerdi there. But I was in a hurry so I can go back and ask.

Thanks for all the help.

Mike

[HayZee518]

It's not so hard to install a shower stall. I did a custom install first time here at my house. I purchased a 2 mil vinyl shower base - really thick plastic almost feels like rubber. My sub floor is 3/4 inch mlb board. the cement/sand base is a three to one mix with enough water to make it a semi dry mix. this is spread over a quarter inch mesh screen which is fastened to the sub floor and pitched towards the drain. the drain is installed and bolted up through the plastic. the corners are glued flat in onto itself. the curb plastic goes over and down outside and glued to the frame. a cement is poured onto the plastic and pitched towards the drain and pounded into place with a 2x4 and a mallet. next day it was hard enough for the quickset for tile.

[tanner3155]

Sounds like if I do the pre-manufactured base I won't have to fuss with the mixing and leveling? Oh, I don't want to have to tile the floor btw. I just want to tile up from the shower pan ( pre-manf base). What about the shower door? At what point does it figure in to the mix?

[HayZee518]

not having worked with a pre-manufactured base, I really don't know about a door. my old shower and base just used a shower curtain and rod.