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This compact detatched accessory dwelling has an efficient layout with a vaulted ceiling that enhances the sense of space.
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Reminds me of the falling block shaprs in tne video game "Tetrus". Looks good...Buic
yeah i'm feeling the tetrus thing.....
looks like nice work, is that cbu walls and a floated mortal floor?
Yeah. I cast the 36 x 72 shower area in the main slab, just 4-5" lower and level. then I put in my PVC membrane and subdrain (level, I know, but that's what people here do). I cut tapered cant strips from the drain to the corners, carefully packed in deck mud, removed the strips (see picture) and filled in the slots.
I snapped lines and cut the tile on the diagonal lines - they were too big to match the contour well. Thinset them down.
The frosted glass wall goes in Thursday - no door, just a 26" opening on the left side.
Note the skylight above - I always try for at least one shower or tub per project to have that.
Forrest
Tile work looks nice.
I like to hold the wall substrate above the mud job.
Nice work.
Eric[email protected]
It's Never Too Late To Become What You Might Have Been
Is there any specific reason for leaving the wall backer above? I mean i've seen guys do it both ways and never heard a reason why...
To me it seems as long as you back wrap your pvc back underneath it, wouldn't matter--?
McDesign, that is a truly beautiful shower!
General consensus say to do it that way to avoid water wicking up into it.
I install my backer very carefully 1/4" above where I want the mud to finish and use it as my guide.
I would NEVER bury it under the mud under any circumstances. Unless perhaps a membrane was being installed over it.
Eric[email protected]
It's Never Too Late To Become What You Might Have Been
Actually, all of the research I did, which included John Bridge's tile forum, suggests that your membrane goes up the wall a bit higher than your curb, and the cement backerboard is brought down to just above the membrane, and you nail no lower than the top of your membrane. The mud pack then holds the bottom of the cement board tight to the wall. It is cement board, designed to not wick moisture. if you bring your cement board above your final sloped floor, how do you attach it to the wall? I would think that putting nails through your membrane would not be a good idea.
Neil
Edited 4/6/2006 4:22 pm ET by neilpuck
Absolutely - I hate the idea of the bottom 6-8" of backer board swinging free. It's hard enough to notch out the studs to let the folded membrane fit flush - when I push it back flat, I want it to stay that way!
Forrest
Cement board will indeed wick. That's why I hold it above the mud base. It will not prevent it from ever getting wet, but I believe it will help.
My plumber usually goes up the wall 8" or so. I usually nick the studs or firr out the walls. I try to keep my fasteners (Durock Screws) no lower than 6" above the mud which will put them about an inch or so below the top of the membrane.
I never had any problem with 6" of cbu "flappingin the breeze" as one poster put it. I feel strongly that once it is all tightly tiled and grouted, it becomes a fairly monolithic structure.
The membrane I mention in the last sentence of my previous post was a reference to a Schluter Kerdi or brush on type of membrane that is on top of the cbu and mud base.
Eric[email protected]
It's Never Too Late To Become What You Might Have Been
Just finished and got paid - the shower glass is in and the client made a curtain to complement the tile -
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Forrest
I have a question about getting a nice slope in the mud for the tiles. I have done this a couple of times and never been satisfied that I have a flat surface. With small tiles this creates little imperfections. I saw an add in FHB for a stryrofoam base that already had the slope so all you had to do was keep a consistent thickness in the mud above. Does anyone know this product? Does anyone have suggestions about how to improve the smoothness of my sloped base?
I just make sure my tapered cant strips are perfect, make sure to hold them down tightly to the pan, make up lots of little "screed" strips of different lengths to check for flat across any two contiguous strips; place the mud in tightly with a mason's trowel, and pack it in smoothly with a mag float. I find there's plenty of time to get it flat with really dry mud.
Forrest
that product is the schluter kerdi shower kit. Schluter.com has a video showing you how it works. I'd say it's pretty awesome. I did a custom shower last week with the Kerdi membrane only (no pre-sloped pan) and got the membrane for $2 a square foot (winnipeg). I think that the shower pan has it's own name but i can't remember what it is.
You might want to change your name to go-oil in a couple days:)
"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know" Ralph Waldo Emerson
This shower has been super advertising. The client lives on Stone street in my 'hood, and is a college professor, okay?
Two weeks ago, she had a party to unveil the new addition - all well received.
Today I signed a contract for a bathroom featuring the exact same shower, including the skylight, for her collegue, another college professor in my town, and in June will build an accessable bathroom addition for a woman also on Stone street, featuring, you guessed it, EXACTLY THE SAME SHOWER!
Hot dang - close-by work - the best kind!
Forrest
Sounds like a great deal. Are they planning on varying the tile colors or anything? People 20 years down the road will wonder why all the houses on that street have the same showers ;)
jt8
"If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base." -- Dave Barry
Yes - my "other professor" job has his own tile layout ideas - he teaches actuarial science, the first one taught mathematics!
The accessable shower client hasn't decided on tile yet - she's got a bit.
Forrest
Do you make it a habit of checking out everyones showers at dinner parties?
LOL!!!!
I can't remember the last time I looked at someone's shower and certainly not in their master suite.
Do you make it a habit of checking out everyones showers at dinner parties?
When I bought my project house at auction, a neighbor had come up and informed me that it had the same floorplan as X's house and Y's house, but that the mba was different than Z's house.
I can only assume that she was friendly with those other neighbors and that is how she knew. Hopefully wasn't peeping in the windows.
jt8
"The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake..."-- Nelson Boswell
Different strokes for different folks. I am trying to think whether I ahve ever even been in my in-laws master. I don't think so.
Whadda think open houses are for? To sell the house?!
I live in a small residential lake community.It is well expected that 80% of the people at open house will be neighbors.
It is well expected that 80% of the people at open house will be neighbors.
Being sociable or nosy?
jt8
"The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake..."-- Nelson Boswell
Good design, and good craftsmanship, are always the best way to advertise! Here in Rhode Island, and being such a small state, word of mouth of satisfied customers, always pays great dividens! ...............Pop