Corner of shower tile sticking up. Ouch.
DD
2 years ago
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OK tile experts -- I just got the labor bid. Ouch!
Comments (10)I guess I should be kissing my tile installer. 80sf floor, white on white octagon and dot with a black and white border and installation of 2 10'x30" suntouch heat mats with self leveling compound on top. 3' x 5'6" shower with kerdi, all walls and ceiling tiled (herringbone tile on the ceiling, running bond ) but no floor - corian shower pan. Some liners and decos etc, mostly plain subway though. About 132sf all told, 21 of that herringbone. Bench top will be a piece of corian. 4'4" high wainscot with a 6x6 base, 1/2" x 6" liner, 13 courses of 3x6 subway tile, another 1/2" liner, 3x8 deco, 2x6 chair rail for a total of about 155 sq ft $2800 for labor including thinset and grout and self leveling compound. $850 for the floor and $1950 for everything else. That's about $10/sf overall for the floor and $6.60/sf for everything else (counting liners and chair rail in the per square foot price.) The shower walls have been durocked for him - does not include the actual kerdi membrane, tile or suntouch mats. He's incredibly meticulous, conscientious and the work I've seen of his is gorgeous. Sounds like I'm getting a killer bargain. I'm in NY about 75 miles north of the city. He's been doing this for 20 years....See MoreTile shower leak in corner
Comments (3)Yes, there IS a fundamental problem here. While the silecone may forestay the inevitable result, the surround should have been totally waterproofed BEFORE any tile went up...whether with a vapor barrier behind the wall material OR a Surface Applied Membrane over top of the wallboard. This was obviously not done. A permanent repair can only be done by removing all the tile, and possibly the floor tile as well...as I'm not sanguine that he did the floor waterproofing any better than the walls, using a product like Hydroban or Kerdi to make it waterproof and then re-tiling. Understand that, by thoroughly caulking with a silicone calk, you may be able to "buy" several years of service.......See MoreTile a corner ROUND shower pan under frameless door?
Comments (7)We did something similar a couple of years ago because we didn't want an acrylic base. Our curved glass sliding doors run in a track, though. Here's what we did. (Disclaimer: the terminology may not be exactly right; the sequence of steps might be a bit out of whack, but the process is all there.) We built (of wood) a curved curb that was covered with cement board. A metal worker came in and fabricated a copper pan on site (copper pans required by code in RI). That cost $600! Then the tile guy poured a concrete base and then tiled the floor and the inside and outside of the curb. For the top we found some rectanglar tiles just the right length. The tile guy laid them side to side (not end-to-end), like you might see around the top of a well. To get the right curve, he had to cut some so the edges "sloped" so that instead of being squared rectangles, they were more triangular. They hang over the curb just a bit both inside and outside of the shower, but not so much that there is any danger of breaking one when stepping in or out of the shower. Then we installed and cauked the track for the doors and then the doors. It's worked very well since....See MoreIn trouble wi/ corner shower tile shelf - no room
Comments (3)Oh, come on, 4x3 is not small. It is plenty of room - our shower is smaller than that and we have two shelves in one corner. We are not small people horizontally either, as Bill can attest. :-) Get two or even three or four smaller shelves (even 6" on the two flat sides of a quarter-circle shelf gives you enough room for two reasonably-sized bottles of shampoo and conditioner and some small things) that you can fit in next to the shower bar and you should be fine. You could also put a wide (side to side), shallow (front to back) rectangular shelf below the shower controls. A glass shop can cut you a thick tempered-glass shelf with curved front edges so you wouldn't ding yourself on the front corners and provide you with the hardware to install the shelf. A glass shelf with the proper hardware can hold quite a bit - the one I have over the tub usually holds two 16-oz shampoo bottles, a 16-oz pump bottle of shaving lotion, a quart bottle of liquid soap (I keep forgetting to buy a smaller bottle to decant it into), a cup of tea or a Coke, and miscellaneous small sundries like razors, and that's just a cheap one I bought for $15 at Lowes....See MoreDD
2 years ago
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