I know that there are guys out there that have made their own showers and I have also but this one that I am working on now is a bit different. It will have a steamer in it and also a shower, so that we can either steam or shower. We would want a bench in it. My main question is when I make the pan should it continue, unbroken and unpierced from above the bench to the door, and how would the bench be made with the continuous pan? Should it be concrete all the way and how would I go vertical?
Thanks for any responce
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Look into Kerdi. http://www.schluter.com
You can do all the walls, the bench, etc in it, and with a steam shower theres no better reason to use it.
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." - Mark Twain
Edited 12/12/2005 5:11 pm by RW
I hate it when I get beat out like that.
I'm marking the calendar. I beat someone for once. A builder I'm on friendly terms with posed the same question months ago and I said why don't you just use Kerdi and got the deer in the headlights look from him. He'd never had anyone ask for a steam shower before. I told him what it was, he had his tilesetter go look into it and after he read up on it was pretty happy. Kind of neat when the dumb trim guy can steer the builder right on a tile question."If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." - Mark Twain
THANKS RW
I KNEW THAT THERE HAD TO BE A BETTER WAY. I HAVE BEEN IN CONTACT WITH THEM AND I HAVE ALSO BEEN TALKING TO MY BOSS ABOUT THE SYSTEM AND ALL WE ARE WAITING FOR NOW IS THE MATERIAL LIST AND A GO FROM THE BOSS.
THANKS FOR THE HEADS UP EVEN IF HE DOESN'T GO FOR THE MEMBRAIN IT IS GOOD TO KNOW ABOUT.
SORRY ABOUT NOT GETTING BACK EARLIER THAT DOESN'T LESSEN MY THANKS.
ROBK
In regards to the bench, and how it should tie in with the pan: my tile setters install their vinyl pans as usual, then hang 1/2" tile board on the walls, float the pan with mortar, and then they install light-weight prefab concrete units (our local tile supply has a brand called "select-a-bench"...i think?) to form the benches (either triangular corner units or square perpendicular to the walls). The voids between walls and bench units are filled with broken concrete blocks and mortar. With this method, the bench basically floats on top of and within the pan. I've seen a post on this board that had a web link showing photos of this type of install.
Look at http://www.schluter.com. Their Kerdi membrane solves a lot of problems.