That is a possibility, but it will be more difficult to get any excess surface water to flow into a level floor drain. That drain is meant to remove as much as possible any flood water. It will never get rid of all the excess water without help by you, either pushing it towards the drain area or vacuuming it up.

So,it may not matter to you if it's level and you think there may be no chance of any floods in the basement. If that's the case then make it flat.

Of course there is always a worry of flooding, I just dont know what other ideas to do, do you think you might be able to still kind of sketch the Pizza thing out for me, if you get a chance. Just so I can get a better Visual, Thanks Randall.

OK, so I have a question in regards to tiling my floor, well a couple;

1) There is a Drain in the center of the room but off to one side of it, and the slope is approsimately 1/8" per foot towards the drain from the length of the room, and 1/4" per foot tfrom the width. I was wondering if I should put down some self leveling ement, or just tile?


2) we tore up limolium from the floor and it looks like the bottom layer of the linolium is now part of the cement, is it ok to tile over top of this or should I try and remove this as best as I can?

Thanks guys, I gotta get this floor done tomorrow, so if I have to add cement I think Im gonna do it tonight, I know this project has taken way too long, but as you say step 1 in the procrastination list is..................

Not sure what you mean by this, but generally all the paper needs to be scraped away. Thinset won't bond to the paper properly.

Cool thanks Kman, what do you think about the first question?

I'm assuming you're wanting to keep use of the drain in the room, correct?

If so, SLC is not what you'll want to use, because it will take away the slope to the floor. If you're worried about the floor not being flat, you can use different sized straight edges to check the floor to see if there are low or high spots to the slope that need to be filled/ground to make the slope proper. Keep in mind we're talking about flat, not level. You want a constant slope from the perimeter to the drain without any low or high spots.

Use a portland-based floor patch to fill those spots, or a grinder with a diamond cup wheel to take down the high spots. You will most likely have to use a smaller tile, though, to keep from having the corners of the tile sticking up. The 1/8" slope won't be bad, but where it drops 1/4" per foot, you will probably have trouble with lippage. I would guess that a 6" tile or smaller would work best. You might get by with something bigger, but avoiding lippage is going to be tougher the larger the tile are.