I Tiled This Shower and It FAILED HORRIBLY!!!--- Find out WHY

just absolute mush, okay, so here I am at a former client's house. We did

this

work in 2006, so quite a while has passed. The owner bought a kit. I said he would install it as far as I remember. I followed the instructions, so. I'm really interested to see what really happened with the

shower

. The floor was very spongy and very soft so I went out and wanted to One of the things I noticed right away was that the

shower

door appears to have been drilled right there. that was a red flag for me, so what we did was pop a tile and get to the foam, it's blue, believe it or not, it's blue and it looks like Kirti, then a wool polyethylene membrane and

this

is what that made me stumble. this is the base and the foam is so soft that it looks to me like you know how to pack peanuts or something, but that's the foam base that I think is underneath again.

I can't remember exactly how this all came together, but We're down, once I get through the foam layer, we get to the OSB and the wood subfloor feels pretty smooth, so that's okay, one thing I'm really curious about. What remains to be seen is what is happening under these two cliffs where the shower door is. one guy drilled from the beginning of the bonded waterproofing in our area, usually this would have been a hot mop that would have the waterproofing would have been a couple of inches below them, the bed of mortar being screwed in to

find

a screw in the mortar bed is fine, but the shower door guy probably wasn't used to this new system.

I just want to see if the shower door guy penetrated the waterproofing. You can see that the shower door guy punctured the waterproofing layer and again, I don't know if that's the cause of the failure that's causing all the water to come in here, but that's something I definitely wanted to show, so I'm going Let's get this little plastic anchor out of here. You can see that's what was left there, completely white, through our waterproofing. I'm going to go ahead and just pull out this little section and see what we get to really make it look dry under here.

I don't feel any moisture in the foam so I don't think this is our water penetration point because this is very wet here and they stopped using this quite a while ago so what we're going to do is start tearing off the tiles and Go back to the drain and we'll see what we

find

, so one thing. The nice thing about sitting on a float or a bed of mortar is that you can make repairs if this was regular wall board or foam or something like that this would just be destroyed okay so we removed the layer of tile and got to to what we have.

Some problems. If you come here, why don't you come closer? Steve. You can see that it looks similar to the sealant that was used. I don't know if this polyurethane is like a light blue sealant, but it looks like it just did that. It didn't join, let's see if everything is backed up and in fact that seal might have worked. This is where the flange looks like. See you, here we go, so where the flange flap was attached, it looks like the flap that came attached. to the body of the drain is actually what laminated let's see what we have and this stinks really bad right here it's been leaking so it was factory on the drain flange and it completely

failed

and you can see that's where the water. coming out of the seam looks like the seam I made where the main floor sheet met the flap that appears to be attached.

I don't see water that came out there, but it came out. Look at this, this is it. the flap that came from the factory attached to your drain and it just completely

failed

and this is the foam right here oh boy look at that look at that oh man we gotta be careful we could fall all over this floor which allows me to get a new sheet here, so here is our little layer of foam, so I didn't build the sub-basin here, but this is particle board, no, it's osv, look it's just mush, absolute mush, so look at the foam and me.

I don't know, this foam again seems really really flimsy, but it wouldn't have mattered. I mean, look at this, that's where the factory seal was on the drainage plan. What went wrong was not the shower door. of anything but that, so I'm sure this is out, yeah, that's what we're dealing with right there, look at that, that's completely crushed, basically turned into dirt, this floor beam, Lea, these It's the floor joists, look at this, Wow, structural integrity. This entire floor was completely destroyed by water damage so this was cutting edge like I said this was the first system I saw it was built this way and I think it fixed their problems with the adhesive they attached their drain flange, but they can help the customer, but again, 13 years, you know at most, it was a 10 year warranty, so yeah, I'm pulling, I just keep pulling, look at this, this is all a mushroom, a mushroom , a white fungus. growth there, so these things that we actually should probably weren't respirators, so these things are not healthy to breathe, you know, you can smell it, there's a smell there and this is actually a four-by-six beam, so we may even need to replace this beam here, yeah, look, that's the beam, so how far this extends maybe into the other room, we won't know until we take out a little bit more, turn off the water.

Okay, so you can see what happens when you get a little careless with the saw. We hit this pipe here and it was a hot water supply. Whoever did the plumbing had it very close, it was right against the bottom of the. from the plywood, so I'm going to cut it out if you're looking for a quick fix because I'm probably going to have to re-probe some things because we're going to rethink this, but if you want a quick fix, the shark bite cover This is really cute, like this I'm going to cut it, cut it back.

The nice thing about shark bites is that you don't have to drain all the water from the lines, it will just burst right into the bites. a friction fit and that's a cap and just make sure it's there all the way and that will stop the water so I'm going to do this repair after we finish the frame but as you can see here we have a big mess from this. The four-by-six beam, this support wood is rotted, so we're probably going to have to put a couple more concrete pillars in here so that it can support the load of this beam while we splice it together and then I'm not exactly sure how we're going to Tackle all of this with the weight of the wall there.

This whole thing may have to be torn down, but we're going to try to save it as best we can. Let this air dry over the weekend, it's Thursday so we'll come back on Monday and start tearing out some more things and rebuilding them, so yeah that's all this mess that happens over a small leaky part on a drain, so it's really important. that you trust the products you're using and you know this shows that they probably didn't solve all their problems before they started posting it, so yeah, that sealant holding the flange just gave way completely. and all the water was leaking here and this was thirteen years ago so that's what's going to happen, it's unfortunate but we'll fix it.