A client wants me to use 12″x12″ tile for his shower pan. I’ve talked to a few other tile layers and I hear it might be impossible, especially when you get closer to the drain. All the other shower pans I’ve done have been with 1″x1″ tile. The homeowner has already bought the tile, and I was thinking about talking him into cutting it into two inch squares.
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We just did a shower with 12"x12" on the walls and cut them to 4"x4" for the floor. The problem with large floor tiles besides coming to the drain is not having grout lines for traction. I would think that if the tiles are rough enough to provide safe footing you could get your slope with 4 trangles. The base of the triangles along the walls and the peaks to the center of the drain.
It depends on the size of the shower bed..
You could do it in a stall as small as 36" by 36" but you would have to cut out the drain area in the middle of your center tile. It lies flat and the other tiles are sloped by 1/4" with the exception of the corner tiles that are 1/2" diagonally.
In commercial, most of the installations are 12 by 12 but the size of the showers is much larger than you would find in 99% of the homes being built today.
Gabe