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RUMBLONBSU
RUMBLONBSU

Looking for advise, from remote Idaho!

Looking for a direction to finish this shower. My wife and I built our home in Idaho out of pocket over 7 years. We have been using an upstairs



full bathroom until we finish out master bath. Money is always tight and we needed other things so this was last. A year ago I blew out my back and now nothing is easy. At 64 I’m struggling with what to do with the shower pan. We did all our own tile in the home so that’s nothing new to us. But after watching years of Tile coach videos I’m worried we will screw it up 🤔. It’s an odd shaped bathroom and big basically a 4x7 ft pan with an angle. I was looking at a done tile ready pan but my plumbing is already ready to do the sloped pan and I THINK doing the tile ready pan …


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RUMBLONBSU
RUMBLONBSU
2 hours ago

Sorry for the typos it wouldn’t let me go back an adjust anything. I’m brand new to the format.

Dry Pack, order of build

I'm remodeling my shower and thinking about using goboard with a dry pack pan. I'm hearing conflicting advice about the order of the build. Should I install the goboard walls before the dry pack or should I first install the dry pack shower pan and then install the walls?

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Also, in your video you build the dry pack shower pan on top of Ditra and wondering why?

David Rojas
David Rojas

Mud Bed Repair

Hi all, I have a large mud bed I have put down for a sauna tile floor. This is the first time I've done a mud bed, and I went with Laticrete 209 Floor Mud, mixed to the recommended ratio (plus a little more water). I had to use screed boards to help with keeping consistency of the slope to the drain in the middle, but I am seeing that there's some crumbling/divots where I filled mud in after removing the boards (even though everything was still wet), so I am using a 20-grit stone to grind down high spots, but I need to know what to do with the dips/divots where mud had crumbled and I vacuumed out. What would be the best way to go about evening out these imperfections to create a good bonding surface for Hydro Ban Liquid Membrane?

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Transitioning to existing floor with barrier free installation of Tile Redi pan

I am removing an existing acrylic pan. I would like to install a Tile Redi barrier free pan. The bathroom just had new vinyl planks installed. I have no problem removing all or some of them to accommodate the install. How do I transition from the tile redi pan to the existing floor with respects to water proofing? I am already going to remove the plywood under the existing pan to lower the floor to top of floor joist height. My concern is the line where the existing floor meets the barrier free shower pan. Suggestions? If you need any more info post it here and I will respond as quickly as possible. Thanks, your input is appreciated.

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The bathroom is an upstairs, stick framed track home with 3/4" plywood subflooring.

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