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When it comes time to replace your fiberglass shower pan, you obviously don't want to have any movement in it. So whether you or your handyman is going to install it, pay attention.
Under a fiberglass shower pan is a webbing of sorts, small vertical supports that make it so that the shower pan won't "give" when a heavy person steps on it. This deflection can crack the pan, or even cause the drain connection to fail where it connects to the pan. Well made shower pans have more substantial supports, while the cheaper pans have less substantial ones. The floor upon which the shower pan rests might also be a factor if, for example, it is damaged or not level.
The answer then is to make the shower pan solid...very solid, particularly around the drain. You can do this my adding some thin-set mortar onto the floor before you seat the shower pan.
Once you have the pan lined up, mix up some thin-set mortar and pour it around the perimeter of the drain hole on the surface of the floor, whether it is the slab or an upstairs sub-floor. I would stay a few inches back from the drain hole and pour a ring about 12 inches wide around it. Then install the pan. You want the pan to sink in to the mortar. This is what will make the shower pan rock solid, and what a difference it will make.
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