| Here is the situation. I live in Alaska. I am building a shower pan so I can tile a new shower. I just put in the pan liner after I put a sloped mixed concrete I guess you would call it underlayment. I have watched quite a few videos. Anyway I watched one and the guy said to take out the drain screws so you can lit smaller splints in the liner. The opposite happened to me. Pi had a very hard time finding the holes and ended up counting one hole way bigger because it felt like it was a hole but the hole was a half I inch away. I put extra caulk underneath the liner where the hole was and put extra on top too so it was squished when it was tightened. I have a question about waterproofing the mortar bed after I pop it it in and let it dry. I see that people use a fabric for the seams. Would it work okay to put the waterproofing on the seams and then put maybe four to six inch strips of sheer nylon fabric like a drywall tape and then put more waterproofing on top? I bought some Māori Aqua Defense I mostly watched videos from Tile Coach Starr Tile and another guy Sgt. ? On making a shower pan. I enclosed a picture of where I am now and it took me a long time to get to this place. Over a year ago we were out of town and the heat went off. Luckily a friend who checked on the house checked it and caught the basement flooding before too many pipes burst. The shower was one so I figured I would improve and update it. I am very well aware of weep holes. The guy who was on that video was pretty good but suggested taking the bolt all of the way out to make a smaller hole. The trouble for me at least is that the holes are very hard to find underneath the membrane. It would have been much easier and better to make a cross at the head of the bolt as they are easier to find. I made a cross about an inch away from a bolt hole I used bathroom caulk to repair that hole. I did not caulk the whole flange for the drain. Pictures of the work so far and the product I was going to use. Do you tile right over the curb or do you need some sort of primer so the mortar will stick to the pan liner? I I I was going to post pictures but it said the file was too. Big and did not give me options for sending smaller files. Thanks |
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