Make Your Own Floor Pans

Although fiberglass units make shower pans quick and easy they lack the elegance of a handcrafted mortar and tile floor.

Make your own floor pans.

Build your curb at the entry of the shower stall. The poster board is your pattern for the new pan so make sure it is as accurate as possible. While you can easily buy a prefabricated shower pan you can just as easily customize your own at home. Camera can be freely positioned.

You just go to your favorite replacement sheet metal retailer and pick out the panels. Use your mobile device on location and complete the work on your computer at the office. Matt randy are making floor pans in real time. And with a mortar and tile floor your shower can be any shape.

Mattm owning a 60 s muscle car or a common antique car like a ford model a is great if you re doing a restoration. For this example we ll use a drain that is in the center of the shower pan. April 15 2016 by. Here s the new floorpan with all of the rosette welds filled and tacked into place on the.

The drain can be anywhere on the pan as long as we slope the concrete for proper drainage. We first need to frame in the shower pan with 2x10 lumber around the bottom of the floor and regular 2x4 studs up the walls. Create detailed and precise floor plans. Get a bead roller.

Add furniture to design interior of your home. First you ll need to build a frame out of wood beams and boards to hold your pan. However the first piece which is anchored into the concrete with 2 1 2 inch masonry screws must be pressure treated wood as it is resting directly against the concrete slab. So if you d like to install a tile shower and are willing to build your own custom shower pan you ll be able to tile it to match the walls.

Making a floor pan with bead rollers flangers clecos mig 175. Make your curb out of 2x4 s. See your project in 3d as many floors as you need. For this pan we added a.

Creating new floor pans for a 1941 lincoln continental with hand tools. Put down a sheet of tar paper to protect your floor from leakage making sure there s a hole for the drain. Tips to making custom floor pans for your car posted.