The city rocks. Come up for a vacation - I'll show you around.

Spring Skiing is epic and we are going up again this weekend. Grouse Mountain is 8 minutes from my home.

JW

Wow, looks beautiful. Definitely a place to add to the list.

 

Noble Seal TS.

Two showers today.

Who needs a day off - there really overrated.

Noble set Sunday.

Filled it this morning.

Inspection called for tomorrow afternoon.

 

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john, how did you get the mosaic tile to reflect the city skyline? very effective! - glass door closure and peek-a-boo windows re elegant.nice work all. freddy

 

Nothing too special. Shower/tub combo with 13x13 tile with a 1/16" spacing. Couldn't talk her into a decorative border or anything special, but you take what you can get.

 

...Couldn't talk her into a decorative border or anything special....

Looks great none the same. Nice work on the install - I like the mitered frame around the niche.

Smart looking tile. Who makes it?

JW

Re: Reflection in tile is actually a reflection from the frameless glass door enclosure.

 

Thanks John!

That's a Ragno tile, can't remember the exact color/line off the top of my head, but I'll post it tomorrow. I really like it. It's a very strong porcelain tile that is very well made. This job broke a string of cheap ceramic jobs from Daltile that varied in size by a ton. This Ragno is within 1/64" every time, and makes for very easy tiling.

 

Brian - this is what a flood test looks like. If you need a plug so you can start doing this just ask. I'll send you one.

 

keep the plug and plug your mouth if it will fit

I do flood tests, I just dont constantly toot my own horn repetitively to hear myself talk about it.
your constantly blabbering on various forums of what you have learned in the past 4 years. it's really annoying.

you have only been doing shower for 3-4 years so I say do what you feel comfortable with.
just like you dont set tile because your cant.

 

keep the plug and plug your mouth if it will fit

JW..your running out of forums for your soap box rants. Think you have been hit over the head with that wrench a few too many times.

You have been dissed by Schluter for some reason and your mad ...we all get it.

 

JW...go to Coverings in Orlando in a week. Im sure you could corner a Schluter rep and force feed your rant to them.

...oh...wait...Coverings is for tile guys not wanna be's

 

Ah boys don't be mad.

I'm promoting proper shower construction, that's all

Been building showers for some twenty plus years

Specializing in barrier free and linear drainage for three plus.

Never ever seen a flood test from Brian - not once. I bet he hasn't flooded out his work this decade. Brian has posted this information before I think.

JW

 

Never ever seen a flood test from Brian - not once. I bet he hasn't flooded out his work this decade. Brian has posted this information before I think.

JW

you even made a post about my blog about me doing a flood test.

are you that screwed up in your head ? :blink:

worry about yourself and not what others are doing!

 

I bet he hasn't flooded out his work this decade.

Ask him how many have failed.
When i did showers i never flood tested them either.Been 10 years since my last.No problems,no issues.(most were for family and if there was a problem,i would have heard about it at Thanksgiving dinner)

It's like having to go back and check your math....you weren't too sure you did it right the first time.

 

Never ever seen a flood test from Brian - not once. I bet he hasn't flooded out his work this decade. Brian has posted this information before I think.

JW

So because he doesn't broadcast each flood test he hasn't done any in the last decade? You have been hit in the head either too.many or not enough times.

 

since I'm a tile contractor and not a drain salesman or a new found shower waterproofing guy I do tile and I dont always type about those things. same as I dont talk about grouting a floor, room layout, or other things I dont need to. people come to me to do a tile work, which encompasses more then just a flood test which you seem so overly excited about you newly learned skill.


http://ceramictec.com/subway-tile-hydroban-waterproofed-shower

I did a flood test on the HydroBan waterproofed pan and let it sit overnight.
The next morning when I got there everything was good, no leaks and the membrane was still looking good.

http://ping.fm/p/IUR55

The Hydro Barrier waterproofing with the Kerdi drain passed the plumbing inspectors flood test. Ok to start tile.

http://www.contractortalk.com/f9/flood-testing-showers-required-83947/index4/

Our buddy Brian has a great blog post here http://ceramictec.com/subway-tile-hy...proofed-shower. And I thought you didn't flood test showers Brian?

the problem is you think too much.

 

drain salesman or a new found shower waterproofing guy

:laughing::lol:

 

Originally Posted by Ceramictec
drain salesman or a new found shower waterproofing guy

:laughing::lol:

well that post I made pointing things out seems to be deleted.

 

Wow this is like watching as the world turns or days of our lives:laughing::laughing::laughing:

 

I don't see the harm in Whipple's horn tooting. He does good work and is proud of it! Also since the intent of this whole site is to learn from others and share with others...I think he is allowing that to happen. You don't have to flood test if you do not want to, but you can't deny his mindset makes sense.

 

Wow this is like watching as the world turns or days of our lives:laughing::laughing::laughing:

Except its worth watching.

 

:blink:

 

Instead of bashing jw why dont you post something useful like he often does. Maybe at some forum which nobody cares about you do but all I remember from you is that you dont like jw.

 

Sorry for posting on subject, but had to do something new today.

So the framing around the tub in this older home wasn't exactly square and the tub lip stuck out about 1/16" past the sheathing. In retrospect, I should've shimmed by backer, but of course I didn't really notice it until I was setting the tile. You wouldn't think it would have a big effect, but it was creating a pivot point that was kicking the bottom of my L-shaped piece at the tub edge out by about 3/4" off the wall at the bottom, or it was going to create a 1/8" lip at the top. I had to rabbet the backside a bit with my tile saw. Came out looking beautiful when I was done, but I nearly went deaf from all the cutting. Anyone else ever had to do this?

Note: The dried thinset is from trying to set it yesterday around 5PM, and I decided to just scrape it off and rabbet it today.

 

its not useful to here him point out things about drywall, unmodified thinset, bash John Bridge, Schluter and the spam posts about things Pros already know.
maybe some of you are fascinated with his new found skill but others aren't.

 

Sorry for posting on subject, but had to do something new today.

So the framing around the tub in this older home wasn't exactly square and the tub lip stuck out about 1/16" past the sheathing. In retrospect, I should've shimmed by backer, but of course I didn't really notice it until I was setting the tile. You wouldn't think it would have a big effect, but it was creating a pivot point that was kicking the bottom of my L-shaped piece at the tub edge out by about 3/4" off the wall at the bottom, or it was going to create a 1/8" lip at the top. I had to rabbet the backside a bit with my tile saw. Came out looking beautiful when I was done, but I nearly went deaf from all the cutting. Anyone else ever had to do this?

Note: The dried thinset is from trying to set it yesterday around 5PM, and I decided to just scrape it off and rabbet it today.

I have had to do something similar before when a hump in one spot was preventing my tiles from sitting flat. Look at a diamond cup wheel for your grinder. It makes quick work of something like that!

 

Will do! I have a 4" diamond flat wheel on my grinder for making large round cuts, but I was too paranoid about it bouncing around and chipping it. I'll look into that for sure, thanks! :thumbsup:

 

its not useful to here him point out things about drywall, unmodified thinset, bash John Bridge, Schluter and the spam posts about things Pros already know.
maybe some of you are fascinated with his new found skill but others aren't.

I find your points simple Brian. Friendly chit chat and then a few choice shots of your business name and number with some fine tile work.

As for helping teach things you don't really share much with the Contractor Talk members. I enjoyed your posts when I wrote on the John Bridge forumn but find here you just bounce in to show some work pictures on busy threads.

Like you do on countless forums. I'm guilty of that myself.

We have a small handful of contractors who write here and we all share ideas and systems. But the largest readership of this forum is the DIYer not the pro contractors.

For every shot you give me online I receive four thank you emails to my office email. Accountants, web techs, designers, postal workers, and younger men just entering the trades.

I welcome your personal attacks - you further lock these topics on the first page of goggle. Keep it up.

As for my thoughts on John Bridge - I read a current post of his that said he used cement board four times with his Kerdi installs. Wow. And he is your idol.

I'm finding that direct training from my manufactures and shear volume of projects has honed our shower building process. When I mess up, I share this in the hopes others learn from my mistakes. What do you do to make a difference?


JW

 

No more personal attacks. None. They are against the rules of this site and when they "slip" by, they cause nothing but issues, ruining threads and creating more work than is necessary to clean up the crap.

If you have a problem and it must get personal, take it to a PM.

 

Speaking of flood testing showers and Mapeband

Got the call today from the builder that both shower pans passed inspection. It was nice to see the inspector ask to see the pans drain - often you miss them and it's not done.

A key key step. And once drained they should dry out.

My test plug wing nut snapped and it was a bear to remove. In the end I used my mini cable cutters to get hold of the stub and other hand on the opposite side.