The construction drawings called for a seat in a new shower stall, but the GC didn’t build it. The PVC liner is already in, and the Durock is up. It’s my job to tile; I will use slate tiles. Is it possible to build the seat in the existing space? How do I attach it to the floor? Will attaching it through the PVC liner violate the liner’s integrity? Should I use regular doug fir or pressure-treated? Durock on the seat, I assume, as a nice foundation for the tile; how much of a slope? Thanks in advance, folks
Johnny
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Either FHb or JLC run an ad regularly for a premade metal seat base. ......wall hung unit........if a seat/cube......I'd make the frame.......attach as high up as possible...and use enough cross bracing that floor attachment isn't needed......then wrap with the cement board of choice. Jeff
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Go to JLC and talk with Michael Byrne in the forum. He does this in his book and video. I rented his video at the library.
MB is no longer with JLC and the tile forum.
Go to http://www.johnbridge.com
he has an online tutorial for building the bench at just the place you are at, CBU and liner installed.
The metal bench that is installed to the studs through the CBU wall is called the better bench. Works fine and comes in a few different sizes.
JB's site also has all the info about this bench.
JB's forum is the absolute best tile forum on the net.
You are fine.
Two basic methods for the bench. None of them involve any wood, and any attempt at building a wood bench would, in my opinion, be really really dumb. Wood in shower. Right.
The two methods are "The Better Bench" a pre-fab bolt on bench that bolts to the side of the shower hopefully through blocking that was installed before the CBU's went up. They did install blocking for the bench, right? (Yeah right) Here is a link for it.
http://www.artistictile.net/store/betterbench.html It will involve bolting on two metal frame members then adding a marble or stone benchtop. You might be OK without blocking as long as the homeowner isn't too fat.
The other way is a throne, and one uses concrete block and fat mud (wall float) to construct a block seat inside the membrane. Any water that drips off it goes right into the pan. Very cool. I'd like to claim that it was my idea, but I owe it to my good friend, John Bridge. Do a search here or at his web site for the details. I think I posted a link to step by step instructions on the bench here a while back. The homeowner could be a body double for Michael Myers Fat B A S T A R D (take that spell check) and it would still survive.
Good luck, and stay away from that wood. Seriously.
Boris
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