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Well, I'm boned. One little measurement I neglected was from the edges of the wall to the drain; the shiny new shower pan doesn't match up by about 2", and I'll be damned if I go under the house and start taking 50 year-old plumbing apart. At this point, I guess I have no choice but to float it or have someone float it.
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03-18-2011, 07:07 PM
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I hate it when I do crap like that.
Maybe step back and regroup. It usually doesn't seem as bad the next day. Good luck.
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03-18-2011, 07:53 PM
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Solved it. Ripped out my subfloor patch, cut off the old drain, put in a flexible coupler, made a new patch section (with the hole in the correct place) yada yada yada
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03-20-2011, 06:31 PM
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Wow!
You have a lot of firring out to do. Get your plumbing fixture figured out, too. I think you should have floated it. You have a lot of work ahead of you. KT
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03-20-2011, 07:14 PM
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If you fir it out to fit the pan, you fixture may be too short. How old is it? Can you get an extension for it. If you get new fixture, then problem solved.
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03-20-2011, 07:24 PM
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My shower and bath will get a renno , its really a disatser area. I am looking at a simmilar job.
This is all pretty inspirational! So that Aquabar "B" goes over the cement board? I saw a tile guy lay down this German-made plastic waffle material on a tile floor before laying tiles.. cool stuff.
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03-20-2011, 09:19 PM
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It goes over the sheetrock as a moisture barrier prior to the wire an mortar. KT
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03-20-2011, 09:28 PM
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umm... Fleible is the one with ridges? Will it easier to get clog? That is can a headache in the future.
trekker, I hear the word "float" all the time but not sure what it is. Is it title on cement/hard/back board? Quote:
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03-21-2011, 12:13 AM
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trekkor, I want to float my bathroom floors. I have 1 1/2" for the mortar bed and tile, so the finished height matches the hardwood. I've read 1.25" is minimum thickness for mortar bed. Whatcha think? jurgen |
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03-21-2011, 05:31 AM
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The flex coupler that I'm talking about looks like this:
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03-21-2011, 05:53 AM
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The minimum thickness for a floated floor I'd try would be 3/4".
A floated surface is mortar spread over paper and wire to create a flat surface. Similar to a plastered surface, except more care is taken in the finished result, as it is a substrate for a veneer. ( tile, marble, etc ) That plumbing piece is called a 'no hub' fitting. They are designed to fasten two pipes in a straight line, not ones that are misaligned. KT
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so floated is similar as people doing stucco then? wood frame, the tar paper, wire/net, than stucco...
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03-21-2011, 03:30 PM
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Yes.
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03-21-2011, 05:34 PM
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Here's the coupler
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Yup, I would expect a pair of radiator clamps on a piece of rubber to be leak free for 20+ years.
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03-21-2011, 08:41 PM
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Yeah, they will go for 20 years without issues.
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03-21-2011, 08:55 PM
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That should work well.
Somehow I imagined a zig-zag. KT
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03-21-2011, 08:58 PM
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Yeah, I thought you used those flexible hose to relocate the drain whole.
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03-23-2011, 02:26 AM
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Got the new fixture in today. I'm not very good at sweating fittings, and it took me several tries to get it right.
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