Installation Guide

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Replace the strainer, if your drain kit came with one, and tape over the drain
hole to prevent nishing material from entering the drain. Place a
cement board or equivalent on top of the shower base ange and
secure to studwall, see Figure 5.
Apply tile, or other nishing material, leaving a 1/8” gap between the
nishing material and the ange lip of the shower base, see Figure 7. Seal
this gap with a silicone sealant. Leave a minimum 1/4” weep hole at the
back and front corners of the shower base, see Figures 6 and 7. Add 100%
silicone under the tile and backer board on top of the threshold only, see
Figure 6. Refer to local building codes for proper nishing or other trades.
Shower Base Installation Instructions (Continued)
Figure 5
Cement board
Blocking
Silicone sealant
1/4” Min Weep Hole
Leave drain valley
clear of silicone
Figure 6
100% Silicone under
tile on top of threshold
sealing the front
perimeter from any
possible water passage.
1/8”
Gap
Tile
Cement
board
Tile
adhesive
Blocking
1/4” Min Weep Hole
Silicone sealant
Figure 7
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The weep holes are necessary to allow drainage
from leakage through an unsealed tiled grout.
Filling the area marked "Do Not Fill" in Figure 8, will prevent
moisture from draining back to the base through the weep holes,
see Figure 8. Such moisture is due to leakage through the tile
grout. Sealing the tile grout will prevent this leakage.
CAUTION
Shim (If
necessary)
Silicone sealant
Cement
board
Blocking
Tile
STUD
Grout
DO NOT FILL
Figure 8
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