Ok!!  Clap clap, we?re moving right along with the DIY shower renovation!   I really need to make a concerted effort to get this in print already, huh"!
I think part of the problem here is my photos are in disarray and scattered about which is so not like me.  I?m habitually photo-organized so this is throwing me a'loop.  TMI, surely.

Last we left off, the cement board was in, taped and patched, a shower niche cut and prepped, rarin' to go and I was excited!   Progress!  Great progress!

Ah, a lil' bit of a photo repeat.  Taped, patched, ready!  Go!My renewed excitement was tempered immediately when I realized the floor was next.

Oh.  Boo.

See, the flipper idiots screwed up the drain installation, surprise surprise.  It was plumbed then they poured the concrete around it which is fine but they didn't build up the drain to match a finished floor height.  So it was too low.  Or sloped incorrectly.  Or both.  Sigh.
This kept me up countless nights, how to resolve this dilemma.  Countless.  Tossing and turning, this drain issue was holding up forward momentum.  I mean, I stressed for-freaking-ever over it.

In the meantime though, I picked up a tub of spreadable, premixed (ha, again premixed, my goal being to make this laborious process easy on myself where I could) (yes premixed is much more expensive but less stress was worth every cent) skimcoat and patch.

Let's patch n' smoo...