How to Install a Shower Pan Liner

The shower room is the area in the house wherein we can indulge in relaxation and pampering before and after a day’s work. Hence, keeping a nice, clean, well-designed and well-maintained shower room is a must in order for us to have a satisfying bathing or showering experience. In a shower room, water is the central element, but as science taught us, it is the so-called universal solvent, and hence plays as one of the factors in the wear and tear of the tiles that form the area. A few years ago, shower pan liners were introduced in the construction industry and immediately become a favorite of home owners seeking for immediate remodeling of their shower rooms. If your shower room is depressing, and you are planning to remodel it soon, read further and discover the fundamentals of shower pan liners, as well as the general steps in installing shower pan liner.

Shower pan liners play as new “covers” for the shower pan. The shower pan is the concrete bowl under the tiled floor and installed to catch the used water and channel them to the common drain. Shower pan liners are installed under the shower pan in order to catch any water permeating the shower floor, ensuring that all of the water goes down the drain and therefore eliminating future wear and tear. Shower pan liners have become a hit in the remodeling industry because they have given home owners the option to fix the leak easily and quickly. And because they provide a more convenient fix, shower pan liners also spare home owners the expensive costs of demolishing the bathroom and replacing the shower pan altogether If home owners are going to remodel the shower room, the floor, the walls, the pan, and their surrounding materials will definitely get damaged and need to be replaced. With shower pan liners, home owners are saved from this burden of demolition.

Installing shower pan liner is very easy. First, you need to get the measurement of the pan area, and ensure that the liner that you will buy is enough to cover the base of the pan plus 8 to 10 inches of the surrounding wall. When you already remove everything and the pan is already exposed, place the pan liner underneath and fasten them in the corner walls with copper nails. In fastening, make sure to make an inward fold. Before tacking the nails, make sure that you perfectly cut out the shape of the liner according to the dimensions of the walls and the stepping area. When the liner is already precisely cut out, lay the shower pan liner glue in the edges where the surface of the walls meets the surface of the floor. In using the glue, make sure that there won’t be any slits or cracks where water can permeate. Installing shower pan liner sounds so effortless in the instruction, but it is actually easier said than done, in as much as cutting out the liner can be tough to many. Nonetheless this is much better than spending hundreds of bucks to pay a professional remodeler.