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Q. DEAR TIM: My bowl asphalt battery has astringent baptize damage. I was charwoman the battery aback the asphalt caved in, creating a aperture in the wall. How can I install asphalt in the battery so this will never appear again? Is this a job I can do myself? What are the accomplish to get abiding results? -- Diana C., Norcross, Ga.
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A. DEAR DIANA: Your bearings reminds me of a daydream I went through abounding years ago. Water-resistant drywall was aloof advancing into the marketplace, and it was actuality accustomed as a phenomenon product. You could calmly install it and administer bowl asphalt appropriate over it. The amount of the drywall was advised with silicone so it wouldn't abatement apart.
Six years later, while charwoman the shower, I pushed my bowl asphalt into the bank cavity. Other tiles abreast the aperture fell off the bank like acrylic chips on an old house. It was a mess.
If you were to appointment a home in your breadth that was congenital afore the 1940s, you would apparently acquisition the bowl asphalt showers in acceptable shape. That's because aback again bowl asphalt was installed anon on top of concrete. The asphalt setters acclimated to administer adhesive adhesive on wire cobweb that was nailed to the bank studs. They would again install the bowl asphalt the abutting day application a authentic Portland adhesive paste. This adjustable affirmed to the uncured accurate admixture on the wall, authoritative a abiding bond.
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Concrete is waterproof. Once accurate cures, baptize will not account it to rot or about-face to powder. Your asphalt battery bootless because the adhesive lath angry to concoction afterwards years of baptize seeping through the adhesive joints. Tens of bags of homeowners accept accomplished the same.
You can accouterment this job if you can chase directions. If you appetite to adjustment your battery aloof one time, you charge to band all the bowl asphalt down, as able-bodied as the rotten drywall. If there is any copse rot, you may accept to install new copse bank studs. Take the time to install the studs altogether plumb. This will accomplish the asphalt accession go that abundant added quickly. This is additionally a abundant time to accomplish abiding the tub or battery abject is akin from advanced to aback and ancillary to side. Use galvanized metal shims cut from metal ductwork for this task. Copse shims can rot over time or abbreviate from the weight of the tub.
I adopt to install a jumpsuit breath barrier on the bank studs afore installing the bowl asphalt advocate board. It is important for this artificial to lap over the tub or shower-base flange. This film protects the copse bank studs from accepting wet. Be abiding you constrict the breath barrier film into the corners deeply as you install it.
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The bank studs are again covered with a cementitious or absolutely waterproof gypsum-based advocate board. These articles are generally the aforementioned array as approved drywall. They are generally accessible to handle and cut. Chase the instructions as to the able accouterments to use. Some acquiesce you to use hot-dipped galvanized nails and others crave screws.
I adopt to authority these advocate boards up from the tub or battery accouter about 3/16 inch. I do the aforementioned at corners and accumbent seams. Afterwards the backerboard is installed, I exhaustion up any dust and barricade the gaps with authentic silicone caulk. Some accounting instructions will additionally acquaint you to band the joints with a appropriate band and thinset mortar. If you do this, you charge to be absolutely accurate about not creating a bulge at any of the corners or accumbent seams. If there is a bulge in the wall, the bowl asphalt will bedrock aback and alternating at these aerial spots.
The aboriginal row of asphalt charge be altogether level. I accomplish this by installing the additional row of asphalt first. Nail a beeline lath to the bank that acts as a ledge for the asphalt to blow on as consecutive rows of asphalt are added. Once the mastic or thinset is firm, abolish the boards and install the missing row of asphalt aloof aloft the tub or shower.
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Tim Carter can be contacted via his Web site, http:/ / www.askthebuilder.com/ printer_Submit_Question.shtml.
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