Install Floating Shower Bench
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I Built a $25,000 Steam Sauna Shower + Everything Went Wrong
What happens here
Tools and materials
- Angle Grinder
- Cordless Drill
- Level
- Metal Snips
- Notched Trowel
- Metal L-Brackets/Support Hardware
- Schluter-KERDI-BOARD (2-inch thick)
- Thin-Set Mortar
What they say
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What they say
(2,497 characters)build a bench guess what we're starting today a bench and it's going to be a floating bench so uh there's not going to be a square or anything like that so I had to do my homework and fortunately my friend Hussein who is a professional Talent staller uh he contacted his rep at schutter and they were trying to figure out how to do it so what they're saying is if I take 2in uh cie board here and then stack it to make 4 in and use special Hardware around it and come up with a coral solution we can make it work so that'll be interesting let's see how it looks we're getting [Music] crazy how sweet this do look let me show you this is wild that this is going to be a bench it's foam but uh I've seen these guys do it and it works this is going to be the top c channel and then this is the bottom uh this basically creates a a strong Ridge so it doesn't Bend up front and then this is the back L bracket that the whole foam sits on that we're going to screw this into the wall uh I need to bend this so I'm kind of nervous cuz spent about 160 bucks for all of this oh look at that feel like I'm disarming a bomb here feel like I'm disarming a bomb [Music] here take off just a little bit [Music] more that's the one am I hitting a stud drywall or a water line so far things are going real real well drywall drywall stud it's time to get dicey folks ready to install everything was to dry fit here's the approach using C fix that's schutter's adhesive uh that's also waterproof going to put a big fat bead where am I putting on that I'm not putting it there I'm putting it around this perimeter then I'm going put my thin set on the edges here or maybe on the edges of that set it down so that'll get glued in then once the first base is on I'm going to use my trow put a coating of thin set on the bottom part stack it and then each one of these will have a reinforcing piece on them of course added with [Music] inset and I'm going to do a little back buttering on the back wall here now I'm not always a scientist but today dang it I'm a genius we need a COR bow here right below it to kind of distribute the weight I went to the mad lab and created this little concoction dang it there's a metal plate there that's there's a metal plate there that's guarding the water line from get getting punctured through right Plan B since I can't install a COR with screws because the waterline plate I'm going to just install it kind of the same way you would install a pre-made shutter Corner bench if…
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