quick tanking questions

[roberto1490]

going to tank my wet room tomorrow with durabase wp on walls and floor. room is 6 square metres.

1. i'm going to tank the whole floor how high up should i overlap on the walls? and do i have to overlap on non shower walls?

2. should i tank ever wall or only certain ones?

3. do i need to tank floor to ceiling or just up to a certain height on the walls?

4. how do i tank around the drain?

cheers

rob

 

[faithhealer]

going to tank my wet room tomorrow with durabase wp on walls and floor. room is 6 square metres.

1. i'm going to tank the whole floor how high up should i overlap on the walls? and do i have to overlap on non shower walls?
do you have any corner tape? if not a bare minimum of 75 mm and I would overlap all the walls. If the tiling isn't up to scratch I've seen where water runs under the tiles and comes up anywhere!

2. should i tank ever wall or only certain ones?
Only shower area plus a bit extra splash over

3. do i need to tank floor to ceiling or just up to a certain height on the walls?
If you have enough membrane, full wall but top of shower head if a bit tight

4. how do i tank around the drain?
Carefully!! There will be a flange that the membrane folds into. Start off with a small hole and be careful not to tear it past the flange

cheers

rob

get back with any probs

 

[david campbell]

you can't beat that for a response faithy

as above

 

[fipple]

sound advies!

 

[wetdec]

Originally Posted by roberto1490
going to tank my wet room tomorrow with durabase wp on walls and floor. room is 6 square metres.

1. i'm going to tank the whole floor how high up should i overlap on the walls? and do i have to overlap on non shower walls?
do you have any corner tape? if not a bare minimum of 75 mm and I would overlap all the walls. If the tiling isn't up to scratch I've seen where water runs under the tiles and comes up anywhere!

2. should i tank ever wall or only certain ones?
Only shower area plus a bit extra splash over

3. do i need to tank floor to ceiling or just up to a certain height on the walls?
If you have enough membrane, full wall but top of shower head if a bit tight

4. how do i tank around the drain?
Carefully!! There will be a flange that the membrane folds into. Start off with a small hole and be careful not to tear it past the flange

cheers

rob

Puka answer m8 I will just add this to round the post off :

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[roberto1490]

cheers lads. very helpful, good to see it in a photo as well.

 

[fitzer]

Hello Roberto first i would proof all of shower pay particular attention around tha drain and any entry pipes into the shower set pipes at proper measurements to take shower fiting later.Outside shower area water proof up walls 1500m all corners 1800m if wet room is upstairs make sure the floor is well screwed down re-nforce all corners with waterproof membrane if suplylied not saying you dont know but use approiate adhievse for tiling onto tanking system alot of the reasons why tanking systems fail is thinking that is enough to waterproof i.e.you must use proper adhievse && grout when you have done a good job think about the damage you could do to undo it i.e.its a crime when someone walks in and starts nipping tiles with a pliers and then walk it into the floor good luck with the job.