The liner is attached to the drain and screwed into the studs. Below is plywood. There is also no blocking between the studs

What is the correct order of events? I think I need to watch this guy closely

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpE1A6ogUNI&ab_channel=OateyCo

"The liner is attached to the drain and screwed into the studs. Below is plywood."

Ask him how he proposes to add a preslope at this stage? To me "pre" means before, as in before the shower floor is installed.

Can someone help me understand the proper steps in build a preslope up from the plywood? I am going to have him remove the liner and start over…

"I am going to have him remove the liner and start over…"

What other work has he done already? It is never good when you need to instruct or watch someone you have hired. Is there a chance of hiring someone else?

The contractor did demo, insulation, and sheetrock. He hired licensed plunbers for plumbing work (i verified)

I hired outside electrician and tile guy

Tile guy will come in once preslope, liner, and durock are installed. The general contractor agreed to remove liner, install blocking bewteen studs, preslope, a new liner (i sent him the video) and the durock.

The Oatey video is perfect for understanding the liner placement.

Is there an equivalent set of instructions and products for the preslope? general contraction mentioned using cedar shake but organic material?

"Tile guy will come in once preslope, liner, and durock are installed"

Tile "guy" should be doing the Durock, Pan, and waterproofing at a minimum. It eliminates the finger pointing when there are issues, and a "contractor" that needs to watch a video on how to build a shower should not be building a shower.

The tile guy said he does schluter systems that don’t require prepitch or durock. It’s $1500. Should i do that instead? Getting very nervous here.

Photo below is example tile guy texted me

YES! You should skip anything that this contractor touches in favor of the tile contractor providing a complete Schluter system. That includes the already waterproofed foam pan that has the proper slope. A complete Schluter system, done by someone who is experienced with them, is far superior to the old vinyl liner system.

Yeah, I would lean that way myself. One guy and he is responsible for the whole magilla

Ok, I called the tile guy and hired him for the whole shower area, top to bottom, inside and out. Thank you for the advice.

Is it ok if I post photos what the contractor has done so far in case anything is glaringly wrong? Would be good to know before everything gets covered up

Here are some photos

You can ignore the foot niche. The wood is still like that but decided against putting the foot niche in the final product

And a quick check of the plumbing (licensed plumbers, but still would love to run it by you all) these photos were taken longer ago, before the subfloor was replaced

And plumbing vent

lots of bad info here. Ripped jeans i see you on IG as well. please explain further

For this OP clearly you've hired the wrong GC and then tiler as well which is very easy to do.

Put the brakes on all of em and regroup.

Again I welcome any homeowners reading along.......to ask for help in the HIRING process. There are at least 4 or 5 tile pros on this forum that can help you avoid hiring errors by simply sourcing and vetting tilers before hand..

I agree about the GC…but…What’s wrong with the tile guy?

I have seen his work and it’s beautiful, and what he says matches what I see online. He’s just being brought on now after me giving up on the GC’s choice of tile people

Curious to know what I’m missing

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