How To Remove Shower Pan Without Damaging Tile

After removing the hair strainer push the balloon down the pipe.

How to remove shower pan without damaging tile. How to remove a shower pan step 1. You need to remove these first. Unscrew the trap connected to the drain hole in the pan. Any shower pan is designed to be removable.

Disconnect the shower. Manufacturers build shower pans with a 1 inch lip along all edges that abut a wall. In this video i show how to carefully remove the grout with an osci. Removing tile without breaking the surrounding tile can be done if approached with care.

This will not damage the tile and you can reuse it. The pan installs at the base of the shower rising up about four inches more or less. One trick is to use a small party balloon as a plug. Remove the pan replace and put the tile back up.

Inflate the balloon to a diameter slightly larger than the drain pipe. You can cut the grout all around where the pan is located may be one to two rows. Cut the silicone sealant around the perimeter of the shower. There is normally one or two screws or nails directly above or through this flange on each wall which hold it to the studs.

Almost all pre formed shower pans have a vertical flange about 1 high around the perimeter which may or may not be visible without removing the wall substrate. Shine a flashlight into the cavity beneath the pan if there is little natural light. The standard method of fixing is to have a u channel fixed to the wall the shower enclosure frames door panel slide inside the channel small visible screws inside the shower area at the top and bottom sometimes central too hold the shower frames in the u channel and will have to be removed the frames will then pull out of the u channel again remove any silicone. Remove the front panel from the shower pan.

If you do crack any you could always resort to a similar color but make sure you replace the entire row all around so it looks like you meant it to be that way. Can i replace just the shower pan in a shower.