Apparatus and method for sloped shower floors

Apparatus for use in creating a sloped floor inside containment walls and having a drain therein comprising sticks having a top surface and being of sufficient strength to support the outer end of an adjustable length arm used to screed uncured floor material between the containment walls of the floor and the drain and an adjustable length arm having an inner end designed to sit on top of the drain near the edge of the drain and an outer arm which telescopes with respect to the inner arm and designed for the outer end to rest on a stick in use.

Apparatus for use is screeding material used to form a floor on a subfloor sloping from outer containment walls to a drain in the subfloor comprising an adjustable length arm having at least a first inner arm and a second outer arm movable relative to the inner arm and means attached to each containment wall to receive and support the outer end of the second arm at a selected height above the subfloor relative to the height of the drain in the subfloor.

A method of screeding material between a drain and containment walls while creating a sloped floor on top of a subfloor comprising the steps of installing sticks against each wall, the sticks having a top surface a selected distance above the subfloor, with the distance determined by the desired slope of the floor, the distance between the farthest point of a wall from the drain and the height of the top surface of the drain above the subfloor, filling the area between the drain and each stick along each wall up to the top of the drain and the top of each stick, placing an adjustable length arm between the top surface near the edge of the drain and the top of a stick moving the arm up and down on the material and sideways across the top of the material to smooth the top surface of the material.