Shower Waterproofing

When I first set up All Features Great & Small, I thought I'd start at the very beginning of our house renovation, two and a half years ago. I had grand visions of detailing every project we've done so far. But who has time for that?! I'm renovating a house for goodness' sake! So, in the name of actually posting anything, I'm going show projects and progress in real time. Possibly less exciting to read, sorry!

Our current work is focused on the new bathroom that we're putting in. Over the past few months (ok, years) we've gotten the plumbing extended from the back of the house into the front, put drywall up, painted, installed wainscoting, tiled the floor, installed the fixtures etc. Right now, we're working on the last step - building the shower and tiling it. Here's the blueprint we're working from (it helps to have an architect mother-in law!).

Last weekend, we got about halfway through waterproofing the shower using the Schluter Kerdi system, which is a bright orange fabric-like material.  I also picked up some marble slabs that will sit on top of the two half-walls and threshold. However; we measured for the marble slightly incorrectly (sigh...) so we spent Saturday morning removing portions of our waterproofing, a layer of cement, and the 1/2" thick cement board underneath, and replacing it all with thinner materials. Happily, this step only took us a couple of hours, and we finished the waterproofing in the afternoon. Here are a couple of photos - one from last weekend and one from this weekend.

We're making progress! Now on to the fun part - tiling! This past winter, we did the floors with a Carrara marble two-inch hexagon. The shower walls are going to be white subway tile, and the shower floor and niche are one-inch variegated green glass tiles, all of which we found at The Tile Shop. Very Modern Victorian. We'll be working on that all day Sunday!