Shower Remodel, Weekend 10&11

Has it really been that long?  Well this tile thing is finally getting wrapped up.  I put in some serious hours to get things moving over the last two weekends.  First we finished all the walls and the little step.  This took lots of custom cuts for the corners and bottom which kept Steve busy cutting while I measured and put them up.  I also got the inside edge of the curb.  That took us up through last Saturday.   

I'm reasonably happy with it, but of course I notice every mistake!  Here is the inside wall.

Well I guess I should say we got most of the walls.  I still have this problem corner below.  I want the tile here to meet up with the tile we will put on the wall around the bathtub.  Unfortunately we need to get that planned out better.

So the next step was the floor, and that starts with laying out the tile and installing the drain - with help of course!

One thing you may notice in the picture above is how uneven the floor is where it meets the wall.  This is due to the Quick Pitch tool we used to help set the correct slope of the mortar bed.  What we didn't think about up front is that the longer plastic strips going to the corners make the corners higher than the middle of the wall.  You can either have a constant slope OR a level floor along the walls - not both.  So now the floor and bottom edge of the tiles don't line up.  But I think a nice thick line of caulk will take care of it.  And here we have the completed floor.

I still have to clean up all the excess thinset (the white stuff you see everywhere), finish the problem corner and curb, then grout it all.  So we still have a ways to go, but at least it looks like a shower now!