Heated shower floor

[tthh]

Here is one company that has them:

Floor Warming for Shower Floors | Schluter

5 Tips for Installing Floor Warming in your shower. Included is a video showing you how to safely install heat under your shower...

www.schluter.com

 

[Besoeker3]

Mine is electric mats under the tile floor. I love it. You walk in barefoot in the morning from the cold floor, and step on the warm tile.

And just smile!

 

[curt swartz]

Without going into more discussion of shower construction.
Heating for a shower floor must be suitable for being wet since it is between the tile and the waterproofing material. A normal floor (tile or wood) should not have water under it. If there is you have much bigger problem to deal with.

 

[wwhitney]

Heating for a shower floor must be suitable for being wet since it is between the tile and the waterproofing material.

Do you have a reference to a product designed to be installed this way? Because the info from Schluter posted earlier today shows the Ditra Heat being installed under Kerdi, so the heat is on the dry side of the waterproofing layer, not the wet side of the waterproofing.

Cheers, Wayne

 

[curt swartz]

Do you have a reference to a product designed to be installed this way? Because the info from Schluter posted earlier today shows the Ditra Heat being installed under Kerdi, so the heat is on the dry side of the waterproofing layer, not the wet side of the waterproofing.

Cheers, Wayne

If the heating cable/mat is installed below the waterproof membrane I don't see an issue. It may be a different UL listing though.

In my almost 40 years in the trade I have never worked on a project that had anything but a hot moped shower pans. Most builders and tile setters in the bay area seem to stick with the old method. I don't think installing heating under the hot mop would work to good.

 

[wwhitney]

In my almost 40 years in the trade I have never worked on a project that had anything but a hot moped shower pans.

That's a local practice primarily found in Southern California, like the local practice in the Boston area of using an unsloped (!) copper pan. There are lots of other ways to make a site built shower receptor.

Cheers, Wayne

 

[hillbilly1]

Here in the south, most are rubber membrane.

 

[Little Bill]

Here in the south, most are rubber membrane.

My part of the south we just turn the shower on and let the hot water heat the floor for a minute, then step in and shower?