Shower Autopsy: Warning! Graphic!
Except for the ponding water on the floor and the big fat caulk lines at the floor plane changes, this shower doesn't look too bad.
But then there's the bench edge detail.
Dr. Sledgehammer makes a very delicate incision at the bench, exposing the plywood top. That's Redguard waterproofing, not blood.
The smell of the saturated plywood bench bottom and moldy Wolmanized framing, in combination with the delicately aged shower water ponded behind the bench is almost enough to make Dr. Sledgehammer's assistant, Dr. Joe, lose his breakfast sandwich. Be grateful computers don't have scratch-n'-sniff pictures, because Dr. Joe really likes to share.
After the bench is bagged, Dr. Sledgehammer continues his nuanced excision at the western floor/wall. For some reason, maybe the heat and his profuse sweating even in the air conditioning, the height of the pictured gray shower liner drives Dr. Joe into a fit of maniacal laughter and it takes him several minutes to compose himself. How very unprofessional, especially when his client hears and he has to explain.
With the mud base penetrated, the gray liner is hidden by more stinky shower water. Fortunately, this quickly evacuates when Dr. Sledgehammer releases the mud base that has been clogging the drain weep holes for the last two years.
Dr. Sledgehammer instructs his smaller protege, Dr. Claw Hammer, to expose the curb detail. Worrying about screws penetrating the liner on the flat seems silly when the liner doesn't cover the curb completely.
On the northern wall, Dr. Rotozip, utilizing his diamond saw attachment and shop vac, relieve the grout line several tiles up. Dr. Sledgehammer taps off the tile, revealing the migrating damp, pictured as gray colored thinset here.
Here is the opposite side of the same showerhead wall.
The showerhead wall is on the right, the western wall is on the left. Go figure. At least the previous installer didn't cut the corners of the liner.
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The liner on the showerhead wall is peeled back. You were warned. Surprisingly, the wood feels sound, although highly discolored.
The pre-slope is removed, exposing the plywood subfloor.
Ten bags and 5 hours.
Buy stock in this company. Tore a hole or two, but never spilled a speck. They're over a buck a bag and I'd pay three times that for the time they save.
Schluter school tomorrow morning at 7:30 a.m. at my local tile store.
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