Comments on: Preparing a Shower Wall for Tile http://floorelf.com/preparing-a-shower-wall-for-tile Help with all your tile needs (and extreme jackassery!) Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:37:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Roger http://floorelf.com/preparing-a-shower-wall-for-tile/comment-page-6#comment-8055 Roger Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:28:10 +0000 http://floorelf.com/?p=73#comment-8055 Hi Stephen, You can go to this page and fill out your name and email in the box on the right. The elves will send it right over to you. <a href="http://floorelf.com/waterproof-shower" rel="nofollow">Shower Waterproofing Manual</a> Hi Stephen,

You can go to this page and fill out your name and email in the box on the right. The elves will send it right over to you. Shower Waterproofing Manual

]]> By: Stephen Seeger http://floorelf.com/preparing-a-shower-wall-for-tile/comment-page-6#comment-8054 Stephen Seeger Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:44:08 +0000 http://floorelf.com/?p=73#comment-8054 Hi Roger. Is this where I leave a request for the shower waterproofing guide? Thank You SO much for your tireless care for us out here as we want to DO IT RIGHT ! You certainly demonstrate vast knowledge through your experience!  Hi Roger. Is this where I leave a request for the shower waterproofing guide? Thank You SO much for your tireless care for us out here as we want to DO IT RIGHT ! You certainly demonstrate vast knowledge
through your experience! 

]]> By: Roger http://floorelf.com/preparing-a-shower-wall-for-tile/comment-page-6#comment-8026 Roger Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:49:05 +0000 http://floorelf.com/?p=73#comment-8026 Hi Randy, Short term - no problem. Longer term (six months or so) water is going to eventually saturate that backerboard (completely normal) but rather than hitting a moisture barrier when it gets to the back it will hit wood - that's when your problems will start. Once water hits that wood it will suck it in like a sponge and begin to swell. That swelling is going to cause excess movement in your substrate which will begin to crack the grout, and eventually tile. And your dog will burst into flames. At this point you should remove the one wall of tile and either go over the backerboard with a topical membrane such as hydroban or redgard (or kerdi) or remove the backer, place a moisture barrier back there, and replace the backer. It'll be a hell of a lot easier to fix just that now rather than that plus any damage it causes down the road. Hi Randy,

Short term – no problem. Longer term (six months or so) water is going to eventually saturate that backerboard (completely normal) but rather than hitting a moisture barrier when it gets to the back it will hit wood – that’s when your problems will start. Once water hits that wood it will suck it in like a sponge and begin to swell. That swelling is going to cause excess movement in your substrate which will begin to crack the grout, and eventually tile. And your dog will burst into flames.

At this point you should remove the one wall of tile and either go over the backerboard with a topical membrane such as hydroban or redgard (or kerdi) or remove the backer, place a moisture barrier back there, and replace the backer. It’ll be a hell of a lot easier to fix just that now rather than that plus any damage it causes down the road.

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