Designing Kitchens and Bathrooms - Shower rebuild

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chestnut
12-01-02, 02:02 PM
We have a brand new home and a master bath shower located in the middle of the bathroom that is glass on three sides. One side has the door, one side is all glass, one side is glass and butts against the corner tub and the back side is all tile. The floor and frame is also tile. The problem is, the shower was not tiled properly and leaked through the ceiling to the first floor.

The builder had the tile redone, but it still leaked. In addition, the doors had to be specially cut and the contractor did a real botch job.

Now because the shower doors were not done properly, the water has seeped in between the tiles and the glue is soaked underneath and the tiles are cracking. Is there a way to build or have built a custom made one piece shower pan without any walls? This way, the doors can sit on top and the water could not seep inside. There are no other options as far as changing the 3 sided openness due to the design of the bathroom.


Doug Aleshire
12-01-02, 02:31 PM
chestnut,

I have attached some links that should help in determining what and ahow to do your project;

http://interiordec.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.super-tek.com%2Fdoityour.htm


http://web.archive.org/web/20010802230226/www.jlconline.com/jlc/archive/kitchen/mortarbed_showers/index.html

http://www.johnbridge.com/shower_curbs.htm


http://www.johnbridge.com/mortar_bed_shower_floor.htm

http://www.schluter.com/english/products/2002/sectionf/kerdidrain/802-index.html

http://www.johnbridge.com/shower_pan_replacement.htm

Hope these help!