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Installing Tumbled Marble Tile in the Shower
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" There in the master bath. -- who Escobar has got a head start with some of the beautiful material. And is working on the shower but I wanted to get -- close look at this this tumbled marble. That is right now it's kind of in the -- agent looks like ancient stone but when -- see you later on. Who look like that of course that he's already got in place here. And you can see it's gonna be distant. A beautiful contrast between this terracotta desk right here that's you know what you see is which yet and then this stone. But we're in the shower you know a key thing when -- building showers to make sure that it's not going to leak. And I want you to take a look at it flashback it was shot about a month ago really where we went through all the different steps waterproofing this area watch. And joining us now is frank lateral our plumbing contractor and we're talking the shower stall in my bathroom here. Frank why do you have to have a copper pan in a shower -- actually what we -- safe there what it does is collect any of the water that -- through the Iowa. Through whatever room material is used to finish the shower up especially you have some sort of grout failure exact and you start to get water seeping in between the ceramic -- we're gonna have very high quality. American made ceramic tile in here. But. Still you never know that the grout won't fail at some point exactly so you were gonna on the drain -- cadre is that. Well this is a shower strainer and it's adjustable so that we can adjust the height for the the poor which is the US cement pouring into these opinions. That. There's going to be the base of the you're I was put it right it'll be a mud job on what -- saying is. Into that piece you bring -- the second piece which is the finished and that has over an inch of adjustment so that you can have that much mud thrown in there exactly. OK so do you have to solder this now guess I well I just flux that a -- so I'm going to give it a little heat. And number refused to show -- straight it to the spin."
" We've got two different thickness of the metal here Bob and what's the important is that we. Make sure that we'll get the correct temperature which is 450 to 500 degrees. In both metal and that we. Your belt the daughter. At the same time we reached that temperature itself. It's kind of base. What can go. Situation before. Using the floors. Floor. Without any fell one of when they're both hot enough. When this artifact blowing and and it sticks to both pieces of metal that we know we're going. That it doesn't deny afterwards it's still -- stud -- the floor right now. Feet. That it could move the daughter along the it's being. Here. Is that fairly broad."
" That the -- to do this with a soldering I. We've been built with the floors. They would stuttering sciences that you've got to continually. You taught science. And and that is that sometimes you have to stop and wait for the giants -- up we'll with a torch and -- say I've got a continuous flow here. I'm doing. We'll. Continue. Solder along the -- terrific. Now aren't you worried about burning the PVC pipe it."
" I've know Bob because this is temporary that's what we call whatsoever and it's only for lineup the picture that weren't falling in the proper location we remove this in -- permanent. -- and later on OK."
" Now in addition to all this preparation the walls of the shower stall. Are going to be tiled and actually in a marble product and because -- is somewhat ports to a take extra precautions so Denny were -- is helping us do it. Put on -- moisture barrier. Which is the same material that he uses a nice since. Water shield on the roof. This of course is pretty forgiving stuff so that we can. Trim and as we need to. Right onto the studs. Over the insulation -- we are of course on an outside wall here. -- put a little bit of cut on this corner over here. Together. This is number three. All right now we're installing the seventh dishes board. Right over the felt paper and the moisture barrier we're using a double threaded screw made out of the corrosion resistant metal. And we're taking all of these precautions as I said because you know you don't want to have to repair. A shower stall Judith any kind of water damage for many many years to come if you can avoid it."