Love the shower enclosure. Is it metal or something else that works in the wet, shower environment?
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Help please - shower curtain over tub leading to wet floor
Comments (14)Your rod should be moveable unless you have it permanently mounted. If moveable just lower the rod so that your curtain is fully contained in the tub. I always use a double shower curtain on that type situation. A heavy vinyl or plastic on the inside and a fabric on the outside, it catches any splash out that might get past the plastic one in the tub. Any time the curtain is allowed to go outside of the tub water will get on the floor and can seep through grout or cracks etc. If there is visible water damage it is likely more severe than you can see. I have never seen an outward curved glass enclosure. To me it sounds like you have the rod placed too high which is keeping your curtain too high and allows it to get out of the tub. Keeping a small open area in the curtain at the shower head wall helps to keep the shower curtain from moving around as much because it allows the air movement to flow more naturally. It actually becomes a little bit of a weather reaction inside a shower and keeping that outside air flowing into the shower is really important to maintain a good air situation and not have the shower curtain blowing in and sticking to you. For tubs that are not metal using the little clip on suction cups is a good alternative to keep them in the tub. You can find that kind of stuff at like Bed Bath and Beyond. I also always have a good quality rubber backed shower rug in the bathroom at the tub so any water gets to the rug not the floor....See MoreFrameless Shower door- Should it have a metal track at top?
Comments (12)I wish I knew. I am always looking at stuff online and that is where I found it. I will try to find it for you. It was rounded instead of flat and very shallow. Dare I say pretty? I was kicking myself for not seeing it before this top brace went in. It's not bad it's just that our shower guy wasn't the best...he had to come back three times and my husband is the one who finally fixed. When it was first installed the door was so tight it would screech when you opened it, sort of scary. Then he had the piece remade and went overkill in the other direction so that it had 1/4" or more gap and water just streamed out during a shower as the head unfortunately faces the door. I did not want this bull in a china shop guy here any more as he always seemed to ruin something else on his way out so that is why my husband fixed it. He centered the door so that there is equal distance on each side but it's still not right. OY VEY! All the while this shower door guy is telling me what a master he is at what he does. The bathroom project from h3ll. Good luck on your projects!!!...See MoreKeeping glass shower enclosures clean
Comments (9)Glass is not smooth when viewed under a microscope, it's actually full of dimples and pits. That's where lime and other minerals can build up. You can order your shower glass with a super glossy coating that's applied after the glass has been tempered. The coating fills the dimples so lime and other minerals have nowhere to hold on and run off with the water, so your glass will stay clear longer. I your glass is coated, do not use acid based glass cleaner such as Windex etc., repeated use will remove the coating. Personally I'm glad we have the coating. Our MB shower glass is as clear as when we bought it, 8 years ago. DH is in a hurry in the morning, so he usually doesn't use the squeegee, while I do. The coating let's you get away with intermittent use of the squeegee. But don't skip too many times, Lime eventually will build up despite the super glossy surface and once there, it's really hard to remove without an acid-based cleaner, in fact it takes lots and lots of elbow grease. Best to not let that happen, and clean at least every other time. I was given a half a dozen specialty shower glass foam spray cleaners by my installers, Well, in 8 years I've only started using one of the bottles. The last time I used it, all I did was remove dust and finger prints on the outside of the shower glass....See MoreMosaic marble tiled floor in shower enclosure - stained?
Comments (20)Minpho, the grout they added does nothing. Grout is not waterproof. It is like a placeholder between the tiles that directs the water downhill to the drain and then when it does let small amounts of water through (because it is porous), it also allows that same water right back out again as it dries (because it is porous). Grout has worked fine for centuries despite this if the shower is built correctly underneath the tile. A properly sloped and waterproofed shower floor never looks like yours did after 8 days of drying out. Even with marble ("hard sponges") and grout (which lets water in and back out), your shower floor has an obvious problem. You can see what it is. The wet area is not sloping enough toward the drain to dry out, or it is not built on a waterproof bed - and the soggy bed underneath it is full of stagnant water that is keeping your tile wet. Or both. Your builder is responsible to give you a waterproof shower that does not leak, does not pool water underneath the tile, and dries out after showers. There are things that can help you in this situation, but you must act now to handle this correctly. Listen to the people here who have "PRO" under their pictures. Most of them have great advice - especially anyone having to do with tile. You may also have help available from your building inspector. Was your shower inspected as it was being built? Does your town do that? Did they okay the pre-slope and the waterproofing method? Go read the things that Creative Tile Eastern CT linked you to read. Ask more questions if it does not make sense to you. You MUST at this point make yourself understand how a shower is supposed to be built because you are now in negotiations with a builder who is not going to want to tear the whole thing out and redo it. Re-read what Creative Tile told you. He is telling you how to talk to your builder about this, what to ask about how the shower was built. You first have to read up on showers and understand terms like "pre-slope," "waterproofing," "shower pan membrane," and "clamping drain." Because otherwise, you can't discuss this and negotiate with your builder. That is why sometimes having the building inspector on your side about whether the shower was inspected during its construction (or not) is good. But if your building inspectors don't do that with new houses, then they are useless to you. Calling the town building department and asking if the inspectors do inspection on showers to ensure they are sloped and waterproofed properly before they are tiled in new home construction will tell you whether the building department will be any help to you. If they are supposed to do the inspection and your builder did not have it done, then the building inspector may come look at your shower and tell the builder to fix it....See More- 11 years ago
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