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Preparing a Shower Pan for Tumbled Stone Tile Installation

Bob watches tile setter, Tim Galvin build up a shower pan and tile. The pan helps protect the surrounding area from moisture. Tim applies a mortar on top of the pan and then sets the tile in place.

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Preparing a Shower Pan for Tumbled Stone Tile Installation

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" I'm not familiar with this product this -- Shower liner okay it's called a composite of steel and what it is it's rubber -- hand that. Is used to protect. The outer part of the house and the structure from moisture that you in the shower and it runs about ten inches -- also behind the cement board OK US good and that's flange it runs under this winter honestly and people that so this is something that you didn't put down the plumber put it down on the plumber installs previous month insulation OK so then when you arrive on the scene that with the mortars -- correct right. We take this mortar and we pour this mortar in on the floor and stiff stuff. Mortar mix and sand -- it's a pre mixed deal then just add water to it. Yet. Take a trowel. Jig this mortar around mud around trying to get it basically. Level or flat. I previously screw this drain down it's an adjustable drain. To keep keep the mud somewhat thin. We. Is that at a university do you media Ali the other one -- there. -- got it yes. That should be funny. So you're gonna work this to a thickness of about what an interest probably about two inches back in the edges and corners when we're done. We usually put -- and not enough mortar in here in and I -- is we have to take a little bit out at regular around at a level. Now this way we just leave it like this who won't street it. This is. Seven -- sport utes scored it on the back. Yes I cut I cut it to the perimeter of the shower in the center of the drain. Got a square out doesn't really have to conform to the around this of the -- but by scoring it at the angle from the outside corner to towards the drain. When you set in place to be able to have enough pitch yeah it'll it'll give it some relief for come down. Pitch to the drain on each side got so what we'll do yes we'll turn this around and we will skim it with some of the thin set we have behind him. This flat bottom yup -- Now what's -- backside and it's. With a mortar what what you actually tell us that this thin set just helps it bond better. If you're just -- mortar -- the barn. Now what I do and I don't think it by the center. I flip it around. Drop in place they just drop it right place. Now it gives you. One solid surface. And I. It's happening -- we get a start Seton. I'll do it. We'll take a level. And that's pretty level back. There. Crossing so we wanna be level around the perimeter trying to make it level around the perimeter so that the stone that's going on the wall. Looks pretty even when you cut -- again. And the stone that we -- is. Is that a tumbled marble that the cobblestones. With a four by four. All right so the thin set is spread. Evenly all around what's the size four quarter and snatched from this is a three Yates drowning values. That means the ridges are up three eighths of an inch creates but it doesn't it won't stay at a three eighths inch. Yeah. It depend on the thickness of the father and put an end. I'll think about not that -- news yet well. Pretty uniforms move. To -- so that we know. We're pretty -- How do you know -- square. I snapped a line across there just to check the walls knew what I'll do is I'll take a tape measure. After I set these in and I'll measure from the back wall to make sure there's -- walls. Seem pretty parallel. We're pretty parallel there accurate. Now takes more stone."

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