How To Build A Bench In A Shower
Your floor substrate is flat your shower floor should be sloped.
How to build a bench in a shower. Depending upon the person a shower bench can also help maintain balance while bathing. It s difficult to build a level bench on a sloped floor. We can purchase the bench at a bathroom supplies store or pick a diy project for creating one.
Attach shower pan liner across the bench surfaces. Start on the shower floor and work upward over the bench wall seat and 6 inches up the shower wall. While you can build a bench in your shower after you form the shower floor with deck mud it s always easier to make your bench first.
Pull the forms off and there you have the concrete shower bench. Then we think you ll be quite interested indeed to see how countryesque measured out and allotted for there s like an actual piece of the wall extending outwards a little ways at just the right height. Tape the joints and cover the shower bench with a coat of thinset.
Perhaps you re building a whole new shower from scratch like we are and you re so set on the idea of making yourself a shower bench that you d rather build it right into the design. The entire process is shown how i do it anyway. A shower bench also can be an invaluable bathing accessory for the infirmed and elderly and not a mere convenience at all.
Slope the top of the bench away from the wall about 1 4 so that water flows off the top of the bench into the shower and not against the wall. Screw the plywood seat in place. Before proceeding with this project decide whether to anchor the bench to the wall or floor.
Cut the plywood to create the bench seat. Let the concrete dry at least 24hrs. Nail the box frame for the bench to the walls of the roughed in shower space.
