Shower pan? Drain? Mushrooms in tile?
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Comments (30)Hi tmnca! One thing to think about with the Kohler shower pans is whether you may ever be using a shower stool with legs. If you were to get a longer shower bench, the Salient may cause problems because the oval really does have quite a bit of "curb" to it, as shown in Badgergal's photo of her son's shower. With a small shower stool set in the center of the shower, it is fine. If you ever need a longer shower stool, the Bellweather gives you a surface not impeded with the raised oval. I does, however, have a slant to the overall shower floor, so that must be taken into account. I have seen the Bellweather in person. It is a non-slip surface. It almost felt like a surface that would make me trip - catching my foot if I did not pick it up and step. Like if I dragged the foot, it would catch and I would trip and fall. It was a funny feeling to the bottom, and I wondered how it would feel when wet. It was NOT going to feel slippery, though! As for tile in a shower floor, the other reason to have small tiles (besides the grout lines giving traction), is that the small tiles allow the tile layer to better cope with the slant toward the drain. Larger tiles only allow you to slant in one direction. The smaller the tile, the better it is for following contours on a floor that is flowing to a drain from all directions....See MoreKerdi shower pan - drain not centered; is it really a problem?
Comments (8)Thanks Mongo, You've made my night! I was awake until 1:00 this morning, going around in circles in my head planning my tile layout and how to best deal with the drain, so I'm happy this idea is sound. I actually was considering your second suggestion of floating the tiles up a bit to get a better match, but I like your suggestion of feathering out the thinset below the membrane. I have a hard enough time with the thinset squeezing out with mosaics. I don't need to make it even harder on myself. Now that that is figured out, I'm sure I'll find many other things to obsess about in the three weeks until we have time to do this project! Actually, I do have one other question (for now!): the shower will have two full walls and two curbs at right angles. I have two Kerdi curbs (the gray ones that are reinforced inside) and felt fine about those until I saw someone on a forum somewhere worrying about whether those would be able to support their frameless glass walls. We are planning frameless glass walls too, so I started researching that and couldn't find anyone who had actually talked about combining the two. Kerdi says they are strong enough (and I have an email in to the glass dealer to check), but just wondering if anyone has actual experience putting frameless glass walls on the Kerdi curbs? I checked the glass doors/walls we're getting and it looks like most of the support will come from the anchors set into the walls and there aren't any holes that need to be drilled into the curb (the walls rest on silicone shims), so it seems like it should be fine?...See MoreShower pan Drain slope
Comments (5)Honestly, we can't tell from the photo and please realize that it is a little too late as a change is a BIG deal. So if you can live with it (and yes, better too much than too little), might want to tolerate the excessive (if so) slope right at the drain. Your drain should not have an abrupt slope in the near perimeter, BUT, as we stated, might want to pick your battles if all else is well....See MoreMiscalculated drain height in mortar shower pan
Comments (11)You should NOT have a full mortar bed pan with a clamp drain + PVC Liner and then redgard it in. Redgard is not vapor permeable and you are on the fast track for whats callled A mold sandwhich. This is a very common mistake A lot of. people and many novice tilers do...trying to mix methods and the wrong materials. I suggest you remove redgard and the top mudbed and share some photos .better to tear out now before you lose the entire thing. reemoving it should take no more than an hour and materials are cheap. Now, dont tell us you screwed cement board thru the liner on the curb and applied redgard to that too, thats the second most common mistake:)...See MoreHU-766231998
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