hi, guys Kirk here with Kirk giordano plastering, I've got another shower we're doing today
generally I'm working outside doing plaster or stucco but I was on the job site already we're
doing a little bit of working fella was showing me what he did and uh anyway he was telling me was
gonna tile it and I said well you know you've got your paper real nice you've got some poly
kin over your cracked your paper on here but his party back board what I informed him was water's
going to go through the tile it's gonna go to the tile it's gonna get on this here and it's gonna go
through this and this piece of paper that he has here actually should be on this lip here there's
a lip right here okay this is your typical bathtub it comes up and it has a lip right here so what we
did was we unscrewed a couple of these sheets re and we're gonna pull this one off also and what i
did was i i've have some grace membrane with me once I pulled this guy off here we're gonna put
the grace membrane on top of this lip and go under we're getting rid of these hardy backer board
right now we're gonna put this on first and then we're gonna re paper over this that way when the
water does go through the tile it lands harmlessly in the tub instead of in back of here where it
would the way he's got this set up and it'll rot out the studs take about ten years but it will
rot out the stud so fortunately we caught this before any damage was done I'm gonna show you just
real quick what I'm gonna do I'm gonna go ahead and take a rag I'm going to use some thinner or
denatured alcohol and clean all this grit off that way this membrane adheres thoroughly so I want to
get to that stage I'll show it and show you that alright guys I got my grace membrane on here now
this is the right way to do it then we're gonna instead of cutting this paper right here which I
could do and put it over I'm just gonna go ahead and put another piece of 30 pound felt over that
that way this lip is protected right here we got see where I can get my hand in here I'm going to
show you guys something which is pretty important we don't want it just flat like this we want we
want it to go like an L flashing so what I'm gonna do here is I've already use some denatured alcohol
clean the tub real well so first thing I want to do is stick this guy onto the tub and if I if I
stick too much that's not a bad deal because we could always come back and cut it now I'm getting
this L flashing type thing work right here alright now this is pretty important see right here I've
got a half-inch gap here and so we don't want to just come here and go straight up we want to go
into that L flashing or that that nipple here if so that's done and I've gave myself a little extra
right here I can take a knife and utility knife and cut that after we put the hardy board back
then he's actually gonna do the tile work I just again I just happen to see this and I thought oh
no don't do that before you properly watertight this so my next thing is I'm gonna go ahead and
put another bit of this grace membrane on all the corners because corners sometimes have a tendency
to leak now we're just going to repaper over this paper and on top of here now that is watertight
it only takes a few minutes to do and again this is I just happen to be here so I thought it we
point this out all right guys had to stick up a little bit more lighting in here hopefully this
will show up anyhow we have the grace membrane now protecting all these corners there and what
was done is because he's had the action he has all this 30 time self oh we are placing another piece
it went vertical on his so what I'm doing is I'm just going to horizontal now so we are taking it
here we're gonna put the next piece on here then we're going to screw that wonderboard all the or
backer board whatever it's called we're going to put that right back on it'll all be watertight
then then he can do the tile without worry about down the road water coming into here because again
it would take about ten maybe five years but eventually it would all rot out anyway that's
just how to properly do about tub also we do a lot of showers we do a lot of interior we mainly
specialize on exterior but it's all the same there's lips everywhere and you have to adapt for
it anyhow my name is Kirk I am with Kirk Giordano plastering, thank you folks for watching hopefully
you guys don't make this mistake I've seen it done about 15 times we'll see you guys on the next one.