What is the best way to bed down a shower tray in your experience?
Question:Has anyone had any issues with the brand Jacuzzi and the cracking of their shower trays?
Answers:
i find a pillow and a small fluffy cover works well for me
depends if im drunk or not
Hi just run some clear silicon along the bottom and the edges that are against the wall
To bed down a shower tray make sure you get it drunk first. Oh, and you might want to bring it out for a night of dancing too.
It depends if the bottom has feet, in the old days you use to us a cementius product called pearl lite and you set the tub into that. Some of the newer ones all you have to do is use construction adhesive on the bottom of the wooded blocks and set. The one problem with this type is if the floor is out of level you have to shim the tub and all you have is the shims glued to the feet of the tub. If it is really out of level us some flash patch floor leveler and put that down let dry and themn glue down. Read the directions and follow them. they have reason why they want you to install it the way they say to.
I hav'nt heard about these shower trays cracking in uk, but if it is a solid (stone) tray, bed it on cement, make sure plenty of the base is covered, use the same principle as tiles, they only cack if there are large gaps in the adhesive. If its plastic, make a wooden subframe and screw it firmly to the wall (the frame not the tray). Good luck!
I assume it is fiberglass or plastic base .
1 set in concrete
2 use expanding foam (i.e. great stuff)
Lay the outside edges on putty, then press down. and trim off excess.
Shower trays although they look strong are subject to hair line cracking when not fully supported. CURE Bed tray on a very weak mixture of sand and cement made into a fairly sloppy mixture, ensuring that it covers the entire tray, Thickness of mix should be about 20mm or an inch. About 5 sand 1 cement would be about right. I am shocked by some of the answers
Just for fun try expanding foam
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