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Comments (7)Thanks very much for your feed-back guys! I really appreciate it! Bill, what a great idea! I would NEVER have though to do this...! I'm just not sure that our shower would have the right proportions for something along these lines... I really love the clean look of Pharoh's trench drain (thanks guys!) and think that this could be perfect for us! Reading about trench drains blows my mind, however! It seems that their installation is a bit of an art form...?! Do you think that this is something that any good general contractor should be able to do? It would be so sad to have water leaking under expensive marble slabs! Also, does anyone have any recommendations as to brands (of drain & membrane etc)? BTW our shower will be 4 ft x 7 ft (with the shower head on the 4ft wall). So I guess the trench drain would need to be about 7ft? The bathroom will be on the ground floor. And humidity is an issue for us! Thanks very much for all the advice! All the best, Ruth...See Morecement board in shower, corners crumbled
Comments (11)I think the board is in poor shape and I would not have used it in my DIY job. The tub, do you know what kind it is? You can find installation instructions for tubs on the internet. If it is a Kohler you can go to any site that sells them and they also link instructions, as does the Kohler website. Is this a tub with or without a shower? The wall either can be shimmed out with furring strips, or the 2x4s notched in so the tub tile flange can be recessed a bit. But I don't know if it is needed with just a tub installation, as the walls won't be wet like in a shower. As I look on the Kohler web site they set the board down on top of the flange like in your picture, siliconed the tiny gap than tiled over the board with the tile providing the overlap. Then the gap where the tile meets the tub gets caulked with silicone. They don't mention any vapor barrier like Redgard, hydroban, or poly. The installation is probably where there is no shower involved. Again I am not an experienced remodeler, just a DIY on a few things. What you don't want is water to be creeping back behind the wall board to get into your wall/stud space. Now the cast iron shower pan that Kohler has, is installed with furring strips on the studs that rest down onto the the top of the tile flange. Then, the cement board is dropped down over the flange and down onto the deck. The furring strips that are shown in these instructions look to be several feet long. I don't know how this is done in real life. I would have thought that the strips would need to be the entire wall length. EDITED to post link that I had saved. This link has a picture that Mongoct posted, its the 5th post I believe. It is an excellent diagram of how to treat the wall, tub, and tile without using firring strips. This is how I did it on my non-showered tub. Here is a link that might be useful: Is Kerdi-Board Overkill for Tub Surround This post was edited by enduring on Fri, Jul 26, 13 at 7:55...See MoreHELP Grouting crumbling around ceramic shelf in shower!
Comments (3)With a latex modified portland cement based powdered thinset. Organic adhesive, more commonly known as mastic, is fine for walls OUTSIDE the shower. But in areas that will receive direct water spray, enough moisture can get through the tile and grout to reimulsify the mastic (make it soft again), and once that happens, the bond from tile to backer is screwed. If your shelves are solid, but the grout is cracking, it could very well be that your installer set the fixtures with thinset and the tile with mastic. Thank God for that much, anyway. Otherwise the fixture would be ready to fall off the wall, as well....See MoreInstalling new shower niche in a culture marble wall
Comments (2)You’ll need to know where the studs are behind the panels and locate the the prefabricated niche between them. Look at the onyx site. They make them....See MoreBeth H. :
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