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![]() ![]() But, we KNEW to put a bed of sheetrock mud under each one. The pans in the B&B are all intact after 18+ years. PS concerning cracks: our all-in-one Kohler acrylic shower only cracked after about 19 years of daily use (and we were able to assess the damage from a closet so know exactly what went wrong). Please search for the conversion elsewhere on -all were homeowners, not salesman. You could also have one fabricated from Corian just like a custom sink-but go direct to the fabricator because the mark up from big box stores is killer. I'm going to rip out the current tile shower and use a custom 'cultured' pan and cultured walls (or Corian, Silestone or whatever). Since that doesn't seem to be around 'any more,' the next best thing is to have as few joints as possible. (Pretty much just mixed colored sand and gooey epoxy together.) The darn stuff was the biggest bear in the world to install (especially when the bathroom does not yet have running water so you can wash up as you go-and quickly), but, it never fell out, never leaked and never molded. The ONLY grout I have ever been happy with probably isn't still on the market-it was a sanded epoxy grout from Lowes. The weakest point is always where grout or caulk lines. They may leak and some tiles are hard to clean. There is NO upside to a tiled shower over the long haul. The house we just bought has a tiled shower and I can see the caulk pulling away, feel the tile not level and see some damage on the floor in the room next door. NOW, I'm considering a cultured marble or cultured granite one for my hme because THAT TYPE PAN DOES NOT LEAK. One guest shoer had an acrylic pan and cultured marble walls-loved it. We used Acrylic ones (one of them a Jacuzzi brand, and one Ameritech from Lowes), in a B&B for 18 years and they performed beautifully as did one in my personal space. I just read an entire 2012 thread on this site about using cultured marble shower pans. ![]() This may not be necessary on all showerheads. I had to drill out some of these jets to 1/16" to get a reasonable flow rate without the water drilling holes through me. This is supposed to give the illusion of higher flow rates. One additional note: in order to parialy compensate for the low flow rate, the actualy nozzels that the water sprays out of are sometimes made smaller to produce a high velocity very fine stream of water. Some can just be removed and some will have to be drilled out. Just take it apart carefully and look for the smallest hole in the flow path. Regardless of the law, most showerheads continue to be made so that they can be easily modified. ![]() I would not count on the manufacturers giving advice on how to modify their shower heads. If manufacturers "Design a showerhead to be convertable to high flow, or advertise or advise customers how to make their showerheads high flow" then they could be considered in violation of this law. If you had lower water pressure, tough luck. This restricted flow to the legal limit if you had the highest water pressure commonly available in homes. most manufacturers just put an extra disk in thier assembly with a small hole in it. Some time ago big brother passed a law that forbid the sale of shower heads that could deliver more than 2 1/2 gal per minut. ![]()
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