NO CURB IDEA: COMMENTS?
My master bath project:
I have built this deck up about 5" off the main floor (including tile surface).
(This to allow the plumbing that serves the freestanding tub, and for aesthetics)
I had planned to make a curb which would have been 2" tall on outside and 4.5" tall on inside of shower.
Now I'm thinking that's unnecessary. I just want a clean step down into the shower.
As modelled this would end up being a 2" step down into the shower once everything is tiled.
The plan is as shown and I think it's solid.
A cement block forms the core of the curb (thus no wood to worry about when the glass door/panel are placed with screws).
The PVC liner drapes over the curb core and over a good portion of the ply deck.
A Curb Perfect form is placed over the PVC and core as shown. It is modified by gluing to 2 sections edge to edge to form an "L". It is then screwed down outside of the curb area to avoid water ingress. The inside end of the Curb Perfect is locked in place by the mortar bed as usual. The Curb Perfect is mortar filled in the usual fashion and evenly abutts a sheet of 1/2" Durock that is secured to the ply. The entire deck and curb are then Redgarded and tiled.
The result is a smooth uninterrupted deck (faux wood tile) that fall off cleanly into the shower.
Some additional precautions:
The ply and exposed deck 2x4 are Redgarded where they meet the cement curb core.
Maybe Redgard the cement curb core itself and adjacent wood before overlaying the PVC liner
Obviously corner dams are used at the curb ends (not shown)
See any obvious issues?
Thanks
Steve
Thank you Larry. I think it will work. I had to rethink it slightly as I remembered the curb area needs to slope off a little bit (1/8th). That created a wrinkle with respect to the Curbperfect glue up notion - which I wasn't that keen on anyway.
Rather than glue idea, I created some galvanized "Z" clips. They are trapped beneath the Durock edge and come out over top of the CurbPerfect securing it firmly to the curb core top. This also allows the curb top to angle off without any problem.
I hear you as far as doing this "the olde fashioned way". Honestly I'm just a little iffy on the Schluter stuff (and the like), and have no experience with it. I have visions of all these showers delaminating and coming apart in a decade. I realize that's probably silly and besides it's even odds I'll be in the dirt by then as I am old'ish.
I think I will switch to one of the other water barriers as you suggest. See how it goes.
Steve