Bathroom Floor Underlayment – Part 5
Lets review the layers of stuff we have on this floor. First is the beams. We had to level them out in order to get the room flat. Then we layed down a nice 3/4″ plywood subfloor. In Part 1 I talked about laying down the heating mats. Then we spread a layer of self leveling compound in Part 2 and another in Part 3. Part 4 discusses the curb and wall for the shower boundaries.
Part 5 is the vapor barrier. The product we used was basically a big piece of fuzzy/felted rubber/plastic that is glued down and seamed with a solvent. The process involved cutting the material to size, spreading the glue and then using a rolling pin to really embed the material in the glue. It was a lot of work and Stefan and my Daddy didn’t stop to take many pictures. Boo.
You can see that we put it up the walls a couple inches and seamed the corners to make essentially a big plastic pan that we tiled on top of.
Of course we don’t have a picture of it pre-tile but here you can see the sides of the “pan.” The blue piece along the bottom of the wall is the vapor barrier.
It installed very much like vinyl flooring using the same awkward single sheet laying process.
That glue dried fairly quickly and besides the fuzzing of the material, it was nice and smooth and flat which made it quite easy to tile.
Click here for Bathroom Floor Underlayment – Part 1: heating mat
and here for Bathroom Floor Underlayment – Part 2: SLC take 1
and here for Bathroom Floor Underlayment – Part 3: SLC take 2
and here for Bathroom Floor Underlayment – Part 4: Curb and Wall
Coming soon: Penny tile on the Master Bath Floor!!!! If you follow me on twitter, you saw a sneak peek this weekend.
Sarah
Bathroom Floor Underlayment – Part 4
Before we could lay down the vapor barrier, Stefan and my Father built a half-height wall and installed the shower curbs.
The half height wall should lend some privacy to the toilet area. After constructing the frame with 2x4s, they covered it with durock. One thing they did do was to shim the durock on the top of the wall so that water will roll off the ledge instead of pooling on it. It has a nice slope to it comparable to the Styrofoam curbs. The whole thing was thinset in place.
Here are the curbs set in place.
Click here for Bathroom Floor Underlayment – Part 1: heating mat
and here for Bathroom Floor Underlayment – Part 2: SLC take 1
and here for Bathroom Floor Underlayment – Part 3: SLC take 2
Sarah
Half Bath Floor
I mentioned last week that my parents were coming to visit. It was such a fun trip. I’m exhausted as usual but we got tons done. One of the quicker projects was tiling the half bath floor.
It was great to have a practice room for the penny tile. It was quite forgiving all things considered. If you’d like a detailed tutorial on laying penny tile, I recommend this post by Young House Love.
The basic rundown is spread thin-set, lay tile, get everything even, wait until the thin set is cured, grout, wipe with sponge, wait 10 min, wipe with sponge, wait 20 min, wipe with sponge, etc. It’s not a difficult process as long as you are patient with the tile and make sure to clean the grout before it hardens up.
Step 1 and 2: Spread thin-set and lay tile
Step 3: grout
Step 4 through the end: wipe and wait, repeat until clean.
The grout we chose was a medium grey. I didn’t want to do white. I’m just not clean enough to keep it all white. The penny tile is a shiny penny tile and each penny is 3/4″ round. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the way it turned out. I had so much fun learning from my mother who has done so much tiling she’s practically a pro.
Sarah
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Bathroom Floor Underlayment – Part 3
In part 2 of the bathroom floor underlayment, we poured a layer of self-leveling compound. I mentioned that it sets up really quick and you can’t keep touching it. Lesson learned. By the time it dried up it was a bit too wavy for our liking. So, back to Home Depot to pick up 3 more bags. This time Stefan and my Father went to town. We really learned how it works on the first go round and the second layer got nice and flat.
Here Stefan is caressing his dead flat, smooth floor. Between the Self Leveling compound and all the tiling, there was lots of floor caressing this weekend. It helps to show your house you love it. It will behave better if it knows you care.
Click here for Bathroom Floor Underlayment – Part 1: heating mat
and here for Bathroom Floor Underlayment – Part 2: SLC take 1
Sarah
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