The floor between the bath and the drain will also slope from the bath to the drain hence no need for a separate floor waste.
Tile floor slope to drain.
In traditional tile shower.
To determine the proper slope measure from the drain to each wall and figure a quarter inch of slope per foot of length.
That way you can establish where the tiles are supposed to go in relation to the grid before you cut them around drain.
Too much slope will create a poor feel to the floor and cause the unsettling sensation of the room being crooked.
Pick a tile drain to create an invisible drain.
The shower will slope from the wall to the drain.
To efficiently drain the recommended minimum slope for a shower floor is about 4 percent or a 1 2 inch drop per every 12 inches from the shower walls to the drain.
The easiest and most effective way to create this type of sloped floor is with an old fashioned mud job.
The water on these floors is typically pushed to the drain with a mop or squeegee so only a minimal slope is needed.
Now the floor is flat until about 18 around the drain and it s not an even slope around it either.
If there s a noticeable slope to the floor leading into the drain make sure to use smaller floor tile four inches across or less so you can more easily follow those contours.
Mark this outer height mark along the wall with a pencil.
Mix up some concrete mix in the mixer.
If the wall is 3 feet from the drain the cement should rise by 3 4 inches as it goes from the drain to the wall starting at the half inch depth around the drain for a total height of 1 1 4 inches at the wall.
When installing a floor drain on most indoor floor surfaces it is important to slope the floor slightly so that water will flow toward the drain efficiently.
The primary consideration regarding a wet area floor is to ensure that the floor drains adequately.
For example a floor that extends 4 feet away from the drain should have 1 inch of overall slope.
The difficulty in doing this is that the wood framing would need to be altered to accommodate the slope over the 12 1 2 floor which would violate the building code.
The trend to large format tiles brings the added complication of obtaining a floor fall to a single waste outlet and to avoid tile lippage in the process.