Things That Are Bothering You, Got You All Hibbeldy-Jibbeldy, or just downright pissed, RIGHT NOW!

[Numbernine]

****** grout ain't gonna make a shower leak through the ceiling

 

[Piobaire]

Actually, it can. Ask me how I know.

 

[jcman311]

Me too. ?

 

[Van Veen]

This ****** rental, that really sounds like a shack of a house, is across the street from a piece of property where the owners are building sunrooms, decks, and getting landscaping done?

It’s in a neighborhood of starter homes built in the mid-70s. The house across the street was flipped about a year ago. This one hasn’t had any major renovations.

 

[Lionel Hutz]

Froyo is goddamn garbage, all of it.

kroger has some new stuff that is actually pretty great

 

[SixOhNine]

 

[Harold falcon]

 

[Numbernine]

Actually, it can. Ask me how I know.

 

[Numbernine]

Me too. ?

A mortar or mud shower pan is a hand-built shower base constructed from dry pack mortar. The shower pan forms the floor of the shower and is typically finished with a tile surface and sloped to a built-in shower drain. A shower pan is traditionally constructed in two layers with an embedded water-proof membrane or layer in the middle. This middle layer serves the special purpose of redirecting any shower wastewater that has passed through the surface of the shower floor back into the drain.

 

[jcman311]

Key word, surface. Not wall. Our grout (which was improperly installed as the wrong product was used) cracked at the joint of the tile wall and the fiberglass basin. Water worked its way through and made its way to the ceiling below. Had a guy come and rip out the old grout (I tried but didnt have the right tools) and install flexible caulking (the right product).

 

[Van Veen]

A mortar or mud shower pan is a hand-built shower base constructed from dry pack mortar. The shower pan forms the floor of the shower and is typically finished with a tile surface and sloped to a built-in shower drain. A shower pan is traditionally constructed in two layers with an embedded water-proof membrane or layer in the middle. This middle layer serves the special purpose of redirecting any shower wastewater that has passed through the surface of the shower floor back into the drain.

Did they do that in the '70s, too?

I'm pretty sure this is a tile issue. The shower pan has rounded inside corner tiles around the edges, and the center part is raised up and separated from those tiles (not sure if that's by design or not), so there is a channel around the edges. The water doesn't flow to the drain.

 

[Harold falcon]

My last house had 5/16 copper pipes. Some weird thing from the ‘50s after the double you double you eye eye. Was a pain in the keyster to repair.

 

[Piobaire]

In our case it was after moving into the Piob Palace and it became apparent the grout in the corner of the soap alcove for the master shower had cracked. We've got all kinds of shower heads and the water was dripping in behind. I noticed the bottom of the wall in the room on the other side was damp. 2k to have things ripped out, treated to prevent black mold, plastered back up...and of course had the entire soap alcove removed, regrouted, and covered with a nice silicone sealer.

 

[Numbernine]

Did they do that in the '70s, too?

I'm pretty sure this is a tile issue. The shower pan has rounded inside corner tiles around the edges, and the center part is raised up and separated from those tiles (not sure if that's by design or not), so there is a channel around the edges. The water doesn't flow to the drain.

I was a steamfitter/welder by trade but back in the early '70s I took a job from the hall to this small plumbing shop. I ended up working for this guy's mostly 2 man shop for 4 yrs. We put down sloped dry pack mortar to just below the weep holes on the lower part of the drain then hot mopped that with tar and up the sides. The tile guys came in and floated the next lift to the drain and finished flush with tile and grout. Thats how union plumbers did it and according to Crazy Harry my boss, had always done it. Those F***ers did not leak even if you busted the tile out.

 

[Numbernine]

In our case it was after moving into the Piob Palace and it became apparent the grout in the corner of the soap alcove for the master shower had cracked. We've got all kinds of shower heads and the water was dripping in behind. I noticed the bottom of the wall in the room on the other side was damp. 2k to have things ripped out, treated to prevent black mold, plastered back up...and of course had the entire soap alcove removed, regrouted, and covered with a nice silicone sealer.

I see that. I was thinking shower floor. Thats why we always said " Don't put more holes in the boat than you need."