Liners, membranes, mud beds — the layer your shower stands on.
Under every tile shower floor sits the pan: a sloped bed plus a waterproof liner or membrane that catches what grout lets through. When Rocky Hill showers leak into ceilings below, the pan has failed — torn liner, flat spots, clogged weep holes, or a 1970s lead pan giving up. A pan rebuild replaces that hidden layer properly: pre-slope, liner or bonded membrane, sloped setting bed, flood-tested before tile. It's the difference between a floor that lasts five years and one that lasts thirty.
Rocky Hill condo owners tile one tub surround and the neighbors follow — whole buildings refresh one unit at a time. In Rocky Hill we flood-test free whenever ceilings below show staining: Condo tub-shower units are the Rocky Hill staple: replace the surround with tile and the whole unit feels renovated. Colonials run two-plus baths, so hall-bath floors and regrouts stack into efficient multi-room days. A sound pan saves you $500–$1,000 — we prove soundness instead of assuming failure.
Six Rocky Hill shower floors, from workhorse mosaic to spa pebble.
Properly built: decades. 1970s lead and flat tar pans are expiring now across Rocky Hill; modern liner and membrane systems outlive the tile above them.
Always — photographed membrane plus witnessed flood test. Any bidder burying untested work is scheduling your next leak.
We plug the drain, fill the pan two inches, mark the level and wait — typically 24 hours for diagnosis, shorter for post-build verification. Any drop means pan failure, located and shown.
Both, matched to the job: liner-and-mud for custom shapes and maximum durability feel; foam tray + sheet membrane for speed and precision slope. Same warranty either way.