Drywall over plastic shower flange
This is a retrofit replacing a rotten tile shower.
So I can’t shim out the drywall to go over the flang, except for one partial wall that I am building.
I will look at shaving the wall to see if I can recess it ing. But I don’t know if that will work yet.
But if I can’t how do I handle the DW shower transistion.
I can stop at the flange, and then tape for and fill with hot mud. But I am not confident that it will not crack and crumble.
Or I can shave the back of the DW and counter lever it over the flang.
If I do that how wide to I need to make the strips of “whole” DW so that it does not crumble when I try and install it.
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A-holes. Hey every group has to have one. And I have been elected to be the one. I should make that my tagline.
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I have more faith in hut mud than I do in drywall at that location.
Remodeling Contractor just on the other side of the Glass City
Bill, you shouldn't be using drywall in a shower at all. That's why it rotted in the first place most likely.
Rip it all out and put in ½" CBU. Hardi-backer, Durock, whatever brand turns your crank. Don't forget to run your kerdi 12" up the studs before you hang the cement board.
Dinosaur
How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not brought
low by this? For thine evil pales before that which
foolish men call Justice....
This is not in the shower.It is outside past the doors..
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A-holes. Hey every group has to have one. And I have been elected to be the one. I should make that my tagline.
Oh. Whew!
Ya had me wondering at you there for a sec....
Ummm. What I usually do in similar cases is fabricate a wood trim/transition piece to cover the joint.
Dinosaur
How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not broughtlow by this? For thine evil pales before that whichfoolish men call Justice....
I like a bullnose tile over that space. Outside the wet area of the f/g shower stall a simple mastic application is fine, and the tile is an easy clean and less prone any potential moisture damage.
Not a bad idea, if you can get the bullnose tile to match the rest of the job.
My regular tile supplier tells me all that stuff is still manufactured and actually is available...by special order...from Italy or Portugal or Brazil...takes about 7-9 months....
Dinosaur
How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not broughtlow by this? For thine evil pales before that whichfoolish men call Justice....
Yes bullnose would have been a good idean and would have been more likely if I would doing the floor also and if the HO was here to pick a color."My regular tile supplier tells me all that stuff is still manufactured and actually is available...by special order..."But I am not sure what you are talking about unless it is the wide lip stuff like might be used on a counter top, which is not appropriate here.But looking at Lowes all of the 4 and 6" wall tile has matching 2" bullnose and 2x2" coner pieces.But many of the 12 and up floor tile and matching strip tiles with one bullnose edge. If something like that was used the corner would have to be 45'd.I got the demo done and the worse spots where outside the shower.One was at the front conner where water run under the shower door and down the outside of the pan. The other places was under a leg of the seat. the seat and backwall extened out from pan 2" and the shower door ran upto the seat and then a fixed panel extension on the door. But the problem was not caused leaking around the door.The whole seat got saturated and water ran down the support framing.I was called for a water leaking in the basement around the supply lines.That whole area does not show any water damage at all.I am guessing that it water at the front conner went under the bottom plate to the holes for the supply lines. .
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A-holes. Hey every group has to have one. And I have been elected to be the one. I should make that my tagline.
The problem is, of course, that dealers stock things on a market-driven basis. Up here in the boonies, there are basically two types of HOs: the locals (working class, who will usually go for whatever is cheapest; hence lots of 'floating' floor and vinyl tile and low-end ceramics) and the rich tourists (who, if they can afford a $1M+ 'chalet' that they will visit only two weeks a year, can also afford to hire a 'name' decorator from Montréal or wherever who will then order everything from her own suppliers in the city, cutting the local guys right out of it).
There are few middle-class HOs around here; the economics of a high-end tourist region just don't permit it: Low-paying, seasonal jobs and high property taxes. (The 'locals' are in fact being driven further and further out of town every year. If I didn't already own my place, I could not afford to live here.)
Too, there are very few indy suppliers in this province: the Big Boxes and specialty chains have driven most of them out of business. So there is no competition to force a big-box or franchised dealer to stock more than the minimum...and they don't.
But it quickly becomes a 'chicken-or-egg' question: Ask a dealer why he doesn't stock something, and he'll tell you because nobody buys it. But mention that nobody can buy something that's not available and the dealer will look at you like you came from the planet Tralfamadore.
Frustrating as heck.
Dinosaur
How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not broughtlow by this? For thine evil pales before that whichfoolish men call Justice....
Hold the rock back, hot mud, fibertape, float it out.
(Hold the rock back, hot mud, fibertape, float it out) Yeah what he said.
And again " what he said" is the deal.
They can't get your Goat if you don't tell them where it is hidden.
I was actually right about sumpin?
Whatr the odds??
Heck You do just fine, Heck.
They can't get your Goat if you don't tell them where it is hidden.
We have always used Durabond. It comes in a bag and you mix it with water. Run the rock up to the flange and then fill the void with durabond. Put it on like you would sheetrock mud, with a small 3" or 4" blade. It dries super hard and it can be sanded and painted. I usually put a vinyl or pvc trim around the tub or shower in a retrofit situation.
I just finished tearing out a tile shower and putting in a 48" 4 piece shower unit. Turned out real nice.
Anyway, we have been using the Durabond for several years and have never had a problem.
James Hart