Thank you for watching! For the sheet membrane installation video that comes after this one: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jqikn5Si1KfVfH0.html

On top of everything this man tells you he loves you, loves to show and teach you. It is clear how legit he and his business are! Thanks #TileCoach 👽

I watch a number of tile video's on youtube, but you're my tile coach. ✌️

Prepping to install my first shower. Ordered the flofx yesterday. Thanks coach!

Issac, watching you float these pans never gets old! Can't wait to hang out this summer!-J

FloFX drain on order! Can't wait to see it... I'll be making a video of my massive bathroom reno and sharing it with y'all when done. Isaac: you've been a huge influence on my project. Can't thank you enough.

I will be shaping my shower pan and installing a FloFX drain after work today! Thanks for all of your tutorials.

Best drain on the market! And Chase Twitchell a genius (owner of FloFx).

Wow, you can always recognize a professional when they make it look so easy! Excellent video, excellent technique, excellent tutorial!!

Thank you Coach for all your videos and the direction they contain!! With your incredible assistance I tackled a Kitchen backsplash. 360 square feet of 6x35 wood look floor tile. A new guest bath surround with 4x 6 subway tile and as of yesterday, finished the master bath shower with 8x16 tile. The 36x36 master shower included the Kerdi membrane, Kerdi corner bench, Kerdi niche and your mud deck technique. I totally get why you tile guys get paid what you get paid. Looks simple from up high but once you get down in the weeds, oh boy!! Your videos inspired me to tackle these progects and in the process I found out a lot about myself. I found out that Squaring a 1916 bathroom caused my cussing vocabulary to resurface so quickly. I also know that paying attention to detail in tile work, such as making sure your floor is flat and that walls are square really paid off when it came to setting the tile!! I have to say agian, making sure everything is square is probably what your videos prepared me for the most when it came to the actual work. I also have to say though, the very most most improtant lesson I came to acknowledge in this journey, is that I now know that this 60 year old body is not cut out for what you guys do on a day to day. This is definitly a young man's sport and I consider myself in pretty good shape!! Anyway, the wife is happy, I did not get injured in the process too bad and I feel good about my work. I can promise you this.......our new house we are planning now.......I will have the tile work and flooring contracted!! Thank you again for the push to take this adventure and saving us a couple bucks in the process. Keep up the unbiased videos for us DIYers and keep tiling on with the no compromised hard work that you do!!

thank you for the video. Im just about to start the same job and your videos have been invaluable. I would not have had the confidence to attempt it if I hadnt seen this

New subscription, getting ready to redo a bad, bad shower on concrete with no pan. House was a total tear out and even though we tried to make it work the shower is no good. Thank you for your videos! I am putting together how to do this. Thinset, Fx drain, mortar bed, waterproofing, thinset, tile, tile grout, seal, seal. Seal.

Very helpful, thank you. I'll be starting my bathroom renovation soon and I the shower is what I'm dreading cause I've done most other things, but not a shower.

Dooooood these drains seem so nice to install. Love the videos brother keep em comin'

Flo fx drain works very well. I ordered 1 from your website 1-2 yrs ago. There was a mix-up with shipping, and you drove it to my project. I've learned a lot about products, fail / no fail from your youtube channel. You provide a great service and teaching even for someone like me who thinks they know it all after 10 yrs doing remodels. I appreciate what you do. Side note; I haven't seen all of your videos, so I don't know for sure, but i've never seen you do any comparisons on foam board vs concrete board. I have seen you waterproof concrete fiber board and strengthen all the joints like I do with foam board. It's much easier to work with for me. Your thoughts?

Man, that is a beautiful mud bed. Wow.

Great demonstration of the product

True craftsmanship awesome mate👍

Just set one of these today, good product!

Another awesome video. Thanks.

I used this on my shower pan installation. Very cool, and it's heavy-duty. It makes it easy to align the tile without any little pieces on the sides. The only thing I didn't like was that the surface area to connect the adapter to the main drain flange was a little short. I think this is to allow more flexibility in making it level, but I'd prefer more surface area, especially because it was a little loose, too. Everything else was perfect. It's really, really secured well into the mortar bed, and the lip for waterproofing is nice and wide.

Thanks Alex, I'm a contractor in Tennessee love your channel keep it up man

Plumbing is hard work. It is good to see this plumber getting a spacious, quality shower. After a hard day's work, it's really comforting to have a big, clean shower to relax in.

Nice video ,Im old school with hrydro ban pre slope and tape,never had one fail yet thank God :)

Isaac, very nice and thorough videos. I have a customer with a 14 year old shower. I live in the Midwest. The customers shower, I did not install, failed. It is a second floor massive walk in with full built in bench on the long side. I did a water test and it doesn't hold. Tearing in and around the drain revealed quite a bit. The weep holes were completely plugged. They used 1 layer of felt and looks like one or two layers of tar for waterproofing. Looks like a make shift hot mop...which is not done in this part of the country. There must be flexion in the floor and drain because the felt was ripped around the collette. Now I need to give the customer some bad news. 5 x 6.5 shower with long built bench, glass wall and jacuzzi on one side. Want to travel near Chicago? Haha

Great work, Awesome vids.

Great product from a great company

Pulled our tub n old shower Installing walk in shower. These vids are terrific. Have watched many . Going with liner pan.. dry pack. No pre slope. I’m in agreement with another tile guy who’s put many vids out.. just not necessary.. your putting pan on plywood.. even after waterproofing that.. no concerns about water getting to plywood? I wouldn’t do that.. those flow fx drains are 😎.

Great job

Thanks for sharing Coach

Great job! I have a cast iron 2’ Stebela level I use for granite tops, walls, etc.. It’s a 1942!🤣 Btw, I need your expertise on my personal shower. I’m buying an hour of your time from your website!👍🏽 I have learned so much from your channel. Thank you Isaac! Jesse from Midwest granite..

Great info my man

Nice Alex, thanks

Dang, perfection!

Woohoo. Great vid. More stabila. Kick Ass

I actually like using a preslope because I feel the thicker mud helps the floor being more ridged and helps avoid cracks.

Would like to see more on common HOME depot drains and Dry pack leveling with drain and slope

Really good video good product one thing I will say I only use modified or fortified no matter what the job is unless there's a certain applications with a specific product but most of the time modified fortified

If I’m doing a large shower or sauna, I cut straight 2x4’s or any wood I have on site to make different lengths for screeding. Hardest part about dry pack is mixing and moving the mud. Very labour intensive. I still prefer foam pans and I’ll level the floor first if need be. If you’re doing this for career I suggest saving your body as much as you can.

my stub is out 8" thinking about that FloxFx drain!!!

In the Buckeye we use a trowel but also a rubber float to pack it down hard

What's underneath the wire? Meaning, what are the proper layers starting with the plywood on the floor. Also, what board are you using on the walls now? Thanks, so many videos and so many ways. I have two bathrooms I'm working on. One is on the second floor and the other is on a concrete slab.

You’re awesome …. Thank you

Issac thank you so much for the content. These videos are amazing. What type of shower curb is that? It looks like schluter?

30 YR OLD STABILA LOL. That's hilarious what are the chances! I also have a 30 year old Stabila. I started setting marble, granite and tile 30 years ago and I still have my original Stabila. I believe it's 28 inches. It's a hair off but still in between the lines. I heard they have a lifetime guarantee for up to a certain percentage off. But I just marked it and still continue using because it's obviously almost perfect being a stabila . I also still have my 30 year old Stabila torpedo level!

artwork!

I screed with a float strip find it much easier since sometimes your levels dont reach from drain to wall

Nice!

Wood Float Guy here. In the Midwest. / MO. My wood float/screed, levels/screed, margin trowel, and finish float is all I use. When the pan is completely finished, I'll burn it in a little with my steel finish float. I want it smooth, but I don't want to bring any unnecessary water to the top. Also with a wood float, you can tamp and shape without digging. Idk how people do it with a finish float only. Seems you couldn't tamp and shape without digging. I digress.... A Mag float works ok too, but nothing like a woody and a mag will bring a bit of unnecessary water to the top. Anyhow...... Pan looks good man. Flo fx Drain looks fantastic. Anxious to get some in stock. Thanks for the content! 💯 Edit: So I should have watched the entire thing before sending off a post. Lol! You do your pan just as I do. Anyhow.... Just wanted to throw that in. Take care!

Awesome video. Can you explain why you don't form the curb with deckmud?

Awesome channel man! You are giving me the confidence to save money and do this myself. My one concern is the speed I’m gonna be working and the time I have before the deck mud starts setting. How long do I have to work with before it starts setting? The other concern is having enough slope to drain.

Thanks for the video Isaac! If you were doing this on a concrete floor, would you still use the lathe under the mud?

Im a bit confused. I just saw your video about preslope and weep holes that remove any water that gets into the mortar allowing it to still drain out. How will that be possible with this drain type with no weep holes. Thanks for all the great shared knowledge!!

Hey TileCoach, Can you make a video of how you finish the drain assembly for the finished floor tile...theres no videos on the internet about this step

As someone looking to tile their first shower, and hopefully more to come. What would you say are some tips or points where I can stop and say ok this is good or this is all bad? Almost to break it down into phases and check myself.

I prefer a dry pack pan but the foam bed is interesting. Wonder if applying 1" to 2" of dry pack on top of the foam slope bed would work, a kind of hybrid system? Using the foam to set the slope but then applying a layer of dry pack for strength, kinda the best of both. Youd have to compensate for curb height possibly but shouldnt be a problem. Ive never had issue setting my slope in dry pack but for weekend warriors and DIYers it might be a viable option. About that drain, i currently form a recessed basin around my drain flange about 1.5" deep and about 10" in diameter that i fill with pea gravel, broken tile etc to insure proper drainage should the grout fail. I form the basin in my dry pack then coat with Redgard extending up onto the drains bottom flange giving me a one piece waterproof membrane from top to bottom. Once filled with gravel etc it gives compressive strength to support the tile while allowing a reservoir and good drainage into the drain should water ever get beneath the tile. The drain system you showed doesnt allow for a reservoir basin at all and doesnt appear to do anything fancy with any water that does sneak past the tile. I understand its advantages with install but what about drainage. Does it address this at all and if not could it be used in the capacity i outlined above with the bottom flange mounted in the bottom of a basin? Thanks for your time.

Hopefully I can get this in Canada

Awesome

I'm gonna have mix my own deck mud. The one we have from the home center is sand/topping mix and it has too much aggregate so it's difficult to use and not have a lumpy finish

Love the channel Isaac. Will the x flo drain work well with a kerdi 4x6 shower pan? I am working on a curbless shower in my master and built the floor around the kerdi pan.

I hope you get the chance to show this installed in a concrete floor. Thank you for the videos, it's nice seeing someone with such positivity. Also just wondering, I see a lot of videos saying to build the pan before the backer board. What are your thoughts on this?

Isaac, is the FloFX also available cross border up in Toronto Canada?

Just wondering : do you have videos where you go from the beginning to the end- demo, prepping, laying tile, grouting, etc.?

What are your thoughts on a liquid membrane like hydroban rather than the sheet membrane after this single float drain install?

Can i just redguard ontop of the deck mud once it dries? and use fiber cloth between the walls and over the flange?

are there any videos showing how to install flo with schulter foam pans?

will water pool in the 1.5 around the drain? seems like its sloped to the flange and am curious how water settles after a shower

Hey coach, what are you using for the uncoupling membrane and lath under your mud bed? Thanks!

I got ahead of myself a bit. I bought this drain. I’m using the old fashioned partly shower pan liner. I guess I could use it.. it’s new to me so I’m just timid. Hehe I’ll let u guys know how it turns out. I guarantee my work so no matter what, I will make it work.

OUCH-April fool's joke! Good work!

Issac, how do you feel about hidden linear drains for showers? Any recommendations for any or against them? I’ve seen the failure videos and I’d like to avoid that if they have a tendency to leak

Do you brush on an additional water proofing like ardex 8 + 9 or hydroban, red guard? I though that was what really sealed those membranes.

just wondering what that 2 inch or so line you snapped across the base of the shower walls after you finished your mud job...is that where your gonna start ur full row of tiles for the wall? or reference for the floor

When are you uploading the next video showing the rest of this job?

Isaac does this flange have weep holes I’m wondering if I install after I add my mud above subfloor the water that sits on bottom of mud where will it go Opposed to other drains that have weep holes ?

Isaac Would the FLOFX work with a pre- sloped pan. I was using Schluters pans, But I’m not a fan of the softness of their pans. So I’m going to see if Lats is a harder pan

I’m planning to do a schluter heated floor, should the drain flange be above the mud the thickness of the ditra that way the ditra and flange are flush? So when the kerdie waterproof membrane goes on there is a smooth transition over the drain flange?

I just bought one. Do I have to use the clamping adapter coupling? What is if for? I didn't see you mention it in video. Thank you

I am doing 2 Shower remodels and emailed and tried to call Chase about his new drains and no response. I wanted to see the installation video and you have checked off one of my concerns. Thanks

Is there any danger of the drain de-coupling from the deck mud when the plumber pushes up from below to attach the p-trap?

Do have a video showing how you do it on a slab? You did say to leave a stub out a couple inches, but when would you cut it to height?

I’m using schluter all set. I’m assuming I can butter the bottom of the Flo fx drain flange with it and press it down onto the mud pack and it will bond well? 🤷‍♂️

I see your using Laticrete board for your walls ? Do you need washers under the screws , or just on ceilings ? Thanks for all your videos , you are doing great work for all new and old timers in the tile trade .

Great video and learned many things from you . I have a question when setting the FLOW FX, when you set down to the drain with 2” pvc , I noticed you didn’t use the glue and do you need to cut the pvc? Thanks in advance

what product is the deck mud mix you are using. Thanks and love your stuff.

How much time do you have to work with the dry pack before it sets?

Do you know if I can add a screen under the grate? To catch hair ?

By the way what happened with the other job with the window flashing waterproofing?

I've been watching a bunch of your videos. I'm a missionary builder, basically I work on single mom's, and elderly who can't afford most of these jobs. I have a mom who is over 400 lbs and I am going to build her a larger custom shower so she can fit in it comfortably. The prefab shower pans are not wide enough, unless they are way up there on price. I've been watching the foam pans you have been doing, but i'm scared of failure with the weight. Would you stick to old school doing the to layers of concrete for more support? I haven't really seen anyone talking about how well the foam boards hold up on those kind of issues or can you point me to any of your videos that might cover this? Your doing great work thanks.

My bathroom remodeler doesn't want to do just a waterproof membrane on top of cement. he wants to do the poly membrane underneath the cement mortar would you advise to paint red guard on top of the mortar to basically do two layers??? I'm using the flow fx drain

Is the Flo Fx drain not glued to the drain pipe? Or did I miss that part? It looked like it was just pushed into place in the mortar base with no abs cement for the drain pipe?

How high is the drain supposed to be from the subfloor? Could you also screw in the drain to the subfloor to help mechanically level the drain?

Do you do the leveling the same when your drain is off set ??is it much harder to get the pitch ?

I have the same bathroom in my house and also 3/4” subfloor playwood and also crawlspace. I’m doing now new Shower . Can I use PREFAB shower pan or I have to do chicken wire and mud ? Please let me know I have no exp. at all with tiles.

What is that tool pouch you use? I have been looking for something lightweight like that! Where did you get it? Thanks!

ABS Bond Flange Kit, does that include the grate? it is a nice drain. Just saying thye have drains for like 5$ that will last twenty years no problem.

Hi, I recently hired a contractor for a bathroom remodel and had a very serious issue with the way he installed a shower pan. I was wondering if I could send you pictures and videos to see what your thoughts are.

Where are you based out of in Northern Cali? Love your videos and your work you're a pretty smart man

Can you put down liquid membrane before the fabric membrane as extra insurance? Our would that affect bonding of the materials?

What did you use for cleavage membrane? How do you install it? Do you lay the membrane down and then chicken wire and staple it? Thanks