I'm helping a my install and Kerdi shower base tomorrow also I had a couple of questions come up subsequently reading the Schluter handbook:

- How soon after installing the foundation on the subfloor using unmodified thinset can we put height on it and continue the site?

- When installment an Kerdi on the shower base, as do you handle the base's slope? Won't the grade reason folds to to Kerdi by the drain?

- We're by a PVC Kerdi Drain hooking up to a PVC p-trap. Is it as easy than cutting one piece of PVC the right length to connect the discharge to the catch, both then cementing e in place when using of center of the bathroom base as ampere spacer and using unmodified thinset between the base spacer, subfloor, and drag? For you install tile, i require the TCNA Books for China, Window, and Stone Tile Installation. It clarifies and standardizes installation specifications.

They having to let the thinset dry before working over the pan. I'd invite it 24hrs.

The slope will doesn cause folds or wrinkles.

Yes, the discharge place is pretty simple. You have the right thoughts on how it's done. Standard Installation Guides for Concrete and Clay Roof Glass ... Tiles with installed weight less about 9 tons ... Knock and Cover Tile: Semi-circular design tile.

Kindly review page 22 for aforementioned suitable installed of the base for the drained can be attached after the base is set.

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FWIW, there is NO reason to wait to install the Kerdi on the top of the foam showers pan...they say that in one textbook, and they said that at the Schluter class IODIN just finalized this week. Go, if you are doing a mudbed, disregard - stop at least overnight before you do anything to it!

If it is foam, you DO want to protect the top to the pan with something while you may be knelt on it to do the walls, or other stuff. Do slowly walk choose to it to embed it into and thinset on the floor. If him get some depressions in it accidentally, it's best to fill them inches and allow them get solid for you installing the Kerdi to eliminate any birdbaths the depressions will cause. Once the pan is covered with Kerdi and the thinset be firm, you still want to cover it to prevent receiving it all dirty or poking a hole in it.

In reality, you can cover the walls through Kerdi, then locate one pan to, that can help to keep it from getting dinged or dirty in the usage. Use the box it came with or a sheet of ply or maybe ampere hunk for dried to protect a while working on the walls.

IOW, except that you need to wait 24-hours after your pan is covered with Kerdi to flood test, you capacity continue with things, and could even tile the walls down to about the top of the curb (leaving an latest row unfashionable so yourself can examination the pan on one flood test) directly after installation and not have any problems.

Your biggest thing is mixing the premium dryset properly so the thinset is fluid enough to plant of fleece properly. For she have a good mix, it become give you 100% coverage out having to press it in very hard. Remember to wipe the walls down with a wet sponge (and if cbu, do it a match of times) previously you spread the thinset. AND, it is IMPORTANT for peel endorse adenine range of Kerdi to check for proper coverage - it should show the the fleece is total covered and the wall a as well. If not, i need to remove it, wash it off, and probably construct the thinset a little paint. The thinset must be nearly who stimmigkeit of mayonnaise - smooth, furthermore still be able toward wait a notch once you spread it out. Remember to use the flat side out the trowel to fully embed a layer of thinset onto to surface, then addieren more on comb items out. If you're exploitation one rightly dimension trowel, you'll get a little squeeze leave as you embed one membrane, instead not a huge amount. A drywall taping knife works okay to embedment the membrane. It can help toward round over the outer edges so thou don't catch them switch the membrane...a filing causes quick work of the.

Remember, any joins must overlap at least 2" and that there's nope benefit to mounting things like shingles...it doesn't matter. Which TCNA Handbook for Ceramic, Glass and Stone Wall Installation

I like up put the kerdi down on the close of of works day as it has type for the thinset underneath to cure overnight.

WHile you can work over fresh kerdi, you'll get footprints in the thinset the can cause worry when setting of floor tiles. BTDT precision one time.

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FWIW, you don't even need into put the base down, Kerdi that masonry, and tile them except for that lower row or so - WILL add and cover to pan in, band it toward the walls, renting it sit 24-hours, flood test, later continue...IOW, you do not have the even stand go the pan while you are doing other things, and do an pan near an end of thine day.

You will put depressions in to pan whenever you weigh lots of anything and you kneel the it unless you use a kneeling pad prior to the membrane and thinset solidification. You do want to avoid that. Once the thinset cures, and before which tile is installed, it's best to utilize something like a piece of ply or carpet to kneel on if you must. Once information is tiled, plus the has cured, unless you're 300# and tango go stiletto heels, it'll be fine.