Shower pan guides

A hot mop shower pan is the waterproof floor under your shower tile, built from hot asphalt and felt in layers. Here is exactly how one is built, and why it lasts.

A pre-slope is the sloped cement bed under the waterproofing that makes water reach the drain. Skip it and water sits still under your tile. Here is why it matters.

Kerdi, RedGard, Hydro Ban and plastic liners all waterproof a shower. Here is an honest comparison from a specialist who only builds one of them, and why.

Sometimes, and it depends entirely on how the pan was built and where it is failing. Send photos first. Here is how we work out whether a patch is even possible.

Usually the next day. A pan is walkable about two hours after it is finished, which is when the flood test starts. Here is the real timeline, start to tile.

What an inspector looks at on a shower pan, what has to be ready before the mop goes down, and why our pans pass any city inspection in San Diego County.

Every shower is priced individually. Here is exactly what changes the number, what we need to quote you on the phone today, and why nobody should quote blind.