I didn’t know how to word the title so it made good sense. I am doing a complete rebuild of a walk-in shower in an old house. Second floor, built about 1925. The shower is not original, but has been there 15-20 years (several years before the current owner bought it). It leaks badly.
The demo is almost complete, down to the studs. I may post pictures of the rebuild process for fun, but in the meantiome I have a question. Two questions.
1: the old shower floor had 4″ ceramic tile over a thick mortar bed, over a cpe liner, over 30# tar paper, over a thick mortar pre-slope bed, all on a piece of 3/4″ ply fastened to the old floorboards. Apparently the weep holes in the drain were plugged, cuz the mortar above the liner was soaking wet, and I found about a quarter inch of water puddled aroubd the drain. I was surprised to find the layer of tar paper. Is that normal practice?
2: Can I re-use the old pre-slope bed? It is in excellent condition, and I hate to demo it for no reason.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell’em “Certainly, I can!” Then get busy and find out how to do it. T. Roosevelt
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Most of the way through the demo ...
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. T. Roosevelt
Hi Ed.
If the job was poorly done, the chances are that the floor is poorly done to. Use this job to learn a new and EZ way to poor a perfect pre-slope shower pan.
Give me a ring and I will go over with you and you can post the pictures as you go alogne for other's to see. It will make your tile job better and easier and faster.
YCF Dino