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Guest House Shower Rebuild: Cement Board, Red Guard, and Tiling Progress

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Shower rebuild in guest house

Well I have not posted in weeks, because the shower rebuild is taking longer than I wanted, I had to get more cement board and I needed “Red guard” to protect the walls, Cement was poured onto the rubber liner, The sub-floor below the liner is 2 sheets of 1/2″ plywood, plus 1″ tapered cement that is tapered to about 5/8″ to the drain that said I just now started to tile, once it gets finished I will make another post with the finished look, I’ve also replaced a window and some other repairs, hopefully in another week the guest house shower will be finished.

You really have to like the improvements with tile, so many choices compared to what they offered 20 years ago, or go back and look at the 1950’s tile when they really used 4″ square tiles as the norm. not to mention the chicken wire and cement they had to deal with. Now it’s cement board nice and flat and strong.

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Faucet added to front

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Faucet added:

Since I had so much to do in the main house crawl space with the A/C ducts I decided it was a good time to add a water faucet connection to the front of the house, there was only one connection for a garden hose and it was in the rear.

This turned out to be much more than expected because at the rear crawl where the water line comes in from the meter I saw it dripping, hose clamps were used on “QUEST” 3/4″ pipes with that said the screws were completely rusted away, hose clamps would never meet code today, QUEST even had a recall some years ago. I bought “Sharkbite” connectors to transition the 3/4″ poly to 3/4″ PEX tubing, then more “Sharkbite” connectors to go from PEX to PVC. $49 later I was able to “Tee” off the PVC and add a front faucet.

Also I found beams for the porch no longer connected, nails had rusted away, that needed repairs as well.