have you ever been asked to tile a steam room

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

YouTube - DIY Home Made Steam Room :lol:

 

[White Room]

I think he's got some fluid on the brain:smilewinkgrin:

 

[Polishtradesman]

YouTube - DIY Home Made Steam Room :lol:

Ha Ha much faster way to do steam room then wedi kit

 

[BIMP]

Just asked to tile steamroom today. 2 side walls are plasterboard and seat is plywood. Rest is scratchcoat plastered wall. What can I do with plasterboard and ply? Can I tank them beforehand? Havent committed myself to it but any advice welcome.

 

[Spud]

butech one flex adhesive butech anthracite epoxy grout walls constructed from wadi board taped and skimmed with the one flex

quality work there Dean

 

[Rob Z]

Dave, we use NobleSeal TS or CIS for steam rooms. These sheet membranes have a perm rating way, way below 1.0 ...I think it is on the order of ~0.05. For walls I think we have always gone over mud and used CBU's for the ceilings.

Epoxy grout on the walls and silicone in the corners.

The specs for Wedi here in the US say that for Wedi to work in a steam shower epoxy must be used to set the tile. Before I knew about this requirement I built several steamers Wedi so I have always wondered when this might be a problem.

 

[diamondtiling]

I use Marmox from dale sauna in Harrogate, I can send them the spec and they deliver it to site flat packed. We bolt it together and use Knauf adhesive to seal the walls, the lighting in the ceiling is a kaleidoscope fibre optic type, we fit the motor onto the ceiling and drill 200 plus 10mm holes to fit the lights. I get the pre formed seating the same as Deano and then mosaic these. The walls have heating cables fitted behind the tiles.
The ceilings are usually mosaics if they are arched. These rooms are built over an existing 100x100 stainless steel grid in the floor which we would have fitted prior to the aromatheraphy room itself being built.
Monsoon showers are similar in construction, we make them up from pre formed curved marmox boards.
I will have to try and find some pictures and scan them.

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

DOM i would love to see some pic's of these mate, i have never seen heating cables in the walls??

 

[diamondtiling]

DOM i would love to see some pic's of these mate, i have never seen heating cables in the walls??

It works exactly the same as UFH Dave but you will know that already. We tried mats at first but they are fiddly and time consuming so it was cable from then on. The probe and cable enter from the back of the room and then through conduit to a cupboard, alternatively the control goes on the roof where it is set up as a timer to go off and come on during the clubs opening hours. Really easy to fit, just like doing a floor.

 

[Aston]

some great info there dom

 

[mullerit]

Hi All, this thread seems to be closest to what I want to achieve. I am building a steam/shower room as part of my en suite refurb and have been looking at vapour barrier solutions. The most comprehensive seems to be Kerdi-DS from Schluter and it looks like Wedi are players also, although I canot seem to find the equiveleant of kerdi DS from Wedi. Do you just use Wedi boards (sealed at joints) and no vapour barrier as such. Any advice would be useful. Deanotile's work looks amazing although I would rather not have full mosaic

Steers in the right direction would be greatly apprciated!