ProcessEvery job

Under the Tile: Prep and Waterproofing

What the finished photos hide. Uncoupling membrane on floors, waterproofed shower pans and foam board walls, leveling clips on every large-format joint, and a rail cutter for slabs. This is the part that keeps a shower from leaking in year five.

Photos from the job

Full porcelain slabs laid on a subfloor with leveling clips along every joint

Slab floor with leveling clips

Rail cutter clamped to a porcelain slab for a straight cut

Rail cutter for slabs

Angle grinder with a diamond blade cutting a large-format tile

Diamond blade cut

Orange uncoupling membrane installed across a floor before tile

Uncoupling membrane

Uncoupling membrane laid in a bathroom around the toilet flange

Uncoupling membrane

Shower pan and walls coated in gray liquid waterproofing with the drain set

Waterproofed shower pan

Shower framed in foam waterproofing board with the pan and valve in place

Foam board walls

Bathroom floor tile with leveling clips set up to the shower curb

Leveling clips

Stone-look shower pan pitched to a center drain with the curb set

Pitched shower pan

Concrete-look tile on a shower curb held with leveling clips

Curb with clips

Bucket of two-part epoxy grout on a freshly set floor

Epoxy grout

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