Before & After…The dog wash

So you ask…“what exactly goes into building a shower base”?

As Matt Sletten built the shower base in the mudroom of the “L” Shaped House I tried to take a photo at each important stage. The series of photos here show most of the steps in the process starting shortly after the sheet rock crew finished in the space. I’ve given up calling it the mudroom wash down area (the name I prefer) and reverted back to “the dog wash” (what everyone else calls it) just to make it simpler.

First the compacted cement base is installed on the plywood flooring “pitched” to the floor drain.

Next the PVC liner is fitted on top of the “pitched” base and the hardware for the floor drain installed.

The compacted cement base is installed on top of the liner and the curb at the front edge is formed.

Then Matt installs the Durock cement board underlayment on the floor and walls carefully “lapping” the PVC liner underneath.

We then “paused” as the laminate countertop was installed the along the end wall of the space.

Matt started by setting the 3” square ceramic tiles in the floor of the base.

He then moved on to the 12” square floor tiles and cut tiles for the curb and border…We threw in another complication here by also moving the pet door to the opposite side of the window.

Finally Matt set the 12'” square (floor) tiles on the walls in the dog wash and helped the plumbers as they installed the service sink faucet in the wall.

The dog wash in it’s nearly complete form…(check back here for one more photo later).