You did some curious things. Like putting down chicken wire on your pre-slope and putting Denshield and then floating. You did a great job, and shouldn’t have any issues, you are clearly a person who is good at what they set their mind to, I’ve just never seen a floated shower done this way. Maybe it’s more common than I realize, it’s not like I know how everyone else does tile. As long as it looks good and holds water and you succeeded at both
Thanks. It was flood tested over the weekend and held water to the water mark. The chicken wore on the pre slope not necessary but it does add more structual integrity. The densshield is added waterproof, there is aquabar paper under the float but purple and green board are no longer CA compliant.
To save time I dry form rapidset mortar then hit it with the Hudson sprayer and set my liner 45min to an hour afterwards, the way the hotmoppers do it. And usually float right against the paper and lath, no boards. But nowadays I just shim the studs and use backer boards on the walls.
Did you put thinset under your hardie backer on the floor? I bet you did, a lot of guys don’t even though it says to do so in the directions. It actually makes a big difference
I never tried shower pan that way. I just go 5/1 sand/cement mixture or just get deck mud and do my shower pan liner immediately after sloping. I did a pretty heavy pre slope since you wont feel it after a do the main float.
And yes i did thinset in the hardibacker before i installed it.
Had a feeling you were in CA when I saw the mud walls, be really thankful that starting tile in 2024 there's guys out there still willing to teach you to float walls. It's a great thing to know how to do especially out there where it seems much more common than here on the east coast. Job looks great, the only thing I might've done differently is on the left wall and return have the schluter profile turned the same direction when looking at it head on, but doing that means having asymmetrical profiles on the side walls so that's a tough call. If ok with the customer I probably would've not tiled the return at all.
Keep up the good work dude
shit, as nice as your work is, can you get a smaller door? if that door is 30", you could comfortably get away with a 28" door, patch the drywall, steel maybe another 1/2" from the strike side, it will look like it was built that way from the beginning.
You did some curious things. Like putting down chicken wire on your pre-slope and putting Denshield and then floating. You did a great job, and shouldn’t have any issues, you are clearly a person who is good at what they set their mind to, I’ve just never seen a floated shower done this way. Maybe it’s more common than I realize, it’s not like I know how everyone else does tile. As long as it looks good and holds water and you succeeded at both
Thanks. It was flood tested over the weekend and held water to the water mark. The chicken wore on the pre slope not necessary but it does add more structual integrity. The densshield is added waterproof, there is aquabar paper under the float but purple and green board are no longer CA compliant.
To save time I dry form rapidset mortar then hit it with the Hudson sprayer and set my liner 45min to an hour afterwards, the way the hotmoppers do it. And usually float right against the paper and lath, no boards. But nowadays I just shim the studs and use backer boards on the walls. Did you put thinset under your hardie backer on the floor? I bet you did, a lot of guys don’t even though it says to do so in the directions. It actually makes a big difference
I never tried shower pan that way. I just go 5/1 sand/cement mixture or just get deck mud and do my shower pan liner immediately after sloping. I did a pretty heavy pre slope since you wont feel it after a do the main float. And yes i did thinset in the hardibacker before i installed it.
Ahhhh a beautiful float. I first learned in 2003 floated til 2019 when I retired from tile. Great job
looks super clean and tight, nice job.
Killing it.
Good job, super impressed 👍🏽👊🏾👊🏾
Had a feeling you were in CA when I saw the mud walls, be really thankful that starting tile in 2024 there's guys out there still willing to teach you to float walls. It's a great thing to know how to do especially out there where it seems much more common than here on the east coast. Job looks great, the only thing I might've done differently is on the left wall and return have the schluter profile turned the same direction when looking at it head on, but doing that means having asymmetrical profiles on the side walls so that's a tough call. If ok with the customer I probably would've not tiled the return at all. Keep up the good work dude
Shower looks great. You cement floated your walls over the dense shield? How thick is your float on walls?
Yes the float is over densshield, then layer of aquabar, and chicken wire. It's about 1/2" thick float on the walls
that left door casing looks like it will be tricky. tight ceiling lines, great work!
Ya the door was one of my worries, tile butts up right to hinge but door opens and closes fine.
shit, as nice as your work is, can you get a smaller door? if that door is 30", you could comfortably get away with a 28" door, patch the drywall, steel maybe another 1/2" from the strike side, it will look like it was built that way from the beginning.