dan_public
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Hi. It's been a long time, but I'm still plugging away on my master bath. There's lots of progress including:
- Shower is tiled
- Heat mat, then ditra, then tile installed on floor
- Tub deck built and tiled (deck and backsplash)
That's the good news. The bad news is that I have a tub install issue to resolve - the installation instructions are a bit confusing.
My tub is a Kohler Escale drop-in tub: http://www.us.kohler.com/onlinecata...§ion=2&category=10&resultPage=0-100690347. It's meant to be installed in a tub deck. It has four little support "Feet" on the tub bottom. (Here's the spec drawings showing the feet: http://www.us.kohler.com/onlinecatalog/pdf/1056402_4.pdf.)
The tub installation instructions say that you can glue the feet to the floor or install the tub with cement. Using cement is the standard way of installing a drop-in tub. BUT... For cement installs, Kohler instructions state that 1) a two inch bed of cement should be everywhere EXCEPT around the tub feet and 2) that the tub feet should rest on the floor.
My question is this - if the feet must rest on the floor, what is the advantage of using cement over gluing the feet to the floor? Since the feet must be shimmed anyway (to raise the tub lip 1/8" off the tub deck), is there any advantage to using cement for this tub?
Thanks in advance,
Dan.
- Shower is tiled
- Heat mat, then ditra, then tile installed on floor
- Tub deck built and tiled (deck and backsplash)
That's the good news. The bad news is that I have a tub install issue to resolve - the installation instructions are a bit confusing.
My tub is a Kohler Escale drop-in tub: http://www.us.kohler.com/onlinecata...§ion=2&category=10&resultPage=0-100690347. It's meant to be installed in a tub deck. It has four little support "Feet" on the tub bottom. (Here's the spec drawings showing the feet: http://www.us.kohler.com/onlinecatalog/pdf/1056402_4.pdf.)
The tub installation instructions say that you can glue the feet to the floor or install the tub with cement. Using cement is the standard way of installing a drop-in tub. BUT... For cement installs, Kohler instructions state that 1) a two inch bed of cement should be everywhere EXCEPT around the tub feet and 2) that the tub feet should rest on the floor.
My question is this - if the feet must rest on the floor, what is the advantage of using cement over gluing the feet to the floor? Since the feet must be shimmed anyway (to raise the tub lip 1/8" off the tub deck), is there any advantage to using cement for this tub?
Thanks in advance,
Dan.