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Kerdi - Walk In Shower
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Float the Floor
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Here is our floated floor, isn't pretty? Its amazing how much picture DON'T SHOW.. This did turn out nice. Not perfect and we knew that because there are more steps involved in the floor.
One thing before I forget in the far lower left of this photo you can see the original house floor, that is part of the shower. The part that we 'floated' was framed up as a dropped floor relative to the house. Since the 'house' part of the shower is entry only, we added a wedge to this area for a 1/4 inch in 1 foot slope.
Now the extra steps for the floor. Ceramic tile floors are cold, especially for BARE feet and I don't want to think about how much hot water my wife would be running down the drain before she decided that the floor was warm enough to walk on. Soooo.
We are installing a electric floor heating system. And everyone one screams, are you trying to electrocute yourself? Well, NO, especially since the heating system will be behind a waterproof membrane.
But the extra work comes in because we need to install the heating wires on top of the floated cement and then cover them with 1/4 inch thick layer of thinset.
In the center of the picture you can see the Kerdi drain and yes, its special you can read all about it on their website. The fun part of this install is that the drain needs to be set and cemented in at the finished floor height, while the rest of the cement must have a slope of 1/4 inch in 1 foot and also be 1/4 inch below the finished height to allow for the heating grid.
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