So, we really got burned with our contractor. He was a friend of a friend, and we hired him to do our bathroom and could have wound up ahead just by lighting ourselves on fire instead. The end result is we need to refinish the floor of our shower stall.Currently it is tiled in travertine. We need to replace the shower drain (contractor did not put in the drain with a vapor barrier of any kind so it smells like hell constantly) and the tiles are sloped so any water drains away from the drain and towards the threshold (which he used a cheap metal strip for, not a barrier of any kind). The rest of the tiles (wall and bathroom floor) are fine. We have a heated floor in concrete as our heating system, which runs under the shower floor.My question is: because the heated floor makes us nervous to demo the current tiles, can we just replace the drain and put a new layer of tiles overtop? Googling turns up results that say this is totally possible or you'll open the 5th gate of hell by doing it. There would be inconsistencies in depth because we would be taking out a drain and putting a new drain in of a different size. Also, we would need to both put in a built threshold as well as slope the floor to encourage the water to go towards the drain.Please help, our bathroom is a disaster. via /r/DIY http://ift.tt/2Dg56ER
