At 08:33 PM 5/19/2006 -0400, Martin Sukey wrote:
>Question for the experts. I am getting ready to install a shower floor. The
>instructions say to nest the shower floor in a bed of motor type material
>such as Quickrete. Do they mean wet or dry? If dry, what keeps the powder
>from seeping down through the opening in the sub floor around the drain and
>also from coming out from the front of the unit into the bathroom for ever
>more? Also I would think I would want the ribs on the underside of the unit
>to contact the floor. If I put enough of the material down so that it
>actually gives full support under the floor of the unit I can foresee it
>holding the unit up off the sub floor. Do I have reason to worry about any
>of this stuff or am I just imagining it much more troublesome than it
>actually is? I have been in some unit that once installed the floor seems
>kind of spongy due to flexing so I kind of think using the bedding material
>is a good thing. What do you say?
I'm not an expert but this is a project that's on my todo list.
I googled shower pan and found this site. More complex than I expected.
This is for tile but it shows an installation where previous mistakes caused
the sort of failures I think you are concerned about.
http://www.thetiledoctor.com/howto/showers.cfm
Steve Shipley
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