Waterproofing Curbless Shower --- New Flo FX Membrane!!! 

Your mom is definitely proud. Keep up the good work, Isaac.

This video couldn’t have come at a better time. Im installing my first curbless shower using the hydro ban system and about to waterproof the floor. I have taken much inspiration and knowledge from your channel. Many thanks if you see this comment

You are that kind of person that got the natural talent to communicate Thanks you I'm admire you

She is watching you! God bless you, brother.!

My man your videos rock, thank you so much for doing them and for sharing them. It's really appreciated.

The vapor drive part is something commonly overlooked,glad you touched on it,keep rollin brotha 👊🏼

Best to waterproof the entire bathroom floor for curbless showers in my opinion (looks like the crack isolation in this video also serves that function). This will protect the floor in case of water wicking vertically through the thinset/grout and offers a little insurance if the drain backs up since there is no barrier to keep the water in the shower.

I watched tons of your videos before I did my bathroom it came out great,3x6 curbless shower a soaking tub with a schluter heated floor in the entire bath plus the shower and bench after watching your videos I used the Flo-fx drain and all schluter waterproofing and all set and because I’m a beginner I hit all the exposed thin set with Hydroban THANKS for all your knowledge.

TileCoach, we're building a shower just like this right now. Two actually, but only one is curbless. We used white 8+9 changes it up a little bit. When you waterproof with 8+9, you gotta wait 3 days to waterproof for the pan to dry, they say. But that blue flo fx membrane and the branding they do on it, is slick. I mean, prep is fun. Try to get this stuff as tight and precision as possible then tiling is fun and turns out better.

Classic red D-2001 bucket chillin in the background

Sorry for your loss, mate. It never gets easier does it.

Thank you for all the work and effort you put into your videos, tests, and tips. You are make me and the industry better! You have also inspired me to start doing my own testing and improve my efficiency. I have a question regular 😮installing waterproof membrane instalation and lapping. It seems to me it would make more sense to install the membrane on the shower floor first, then do the linear corner strips onto the floor, followed by the corner prices and finally, the shower walls. If the wall membranes were installed last, the water shed would be better. It always bothers me that the overlap invites water in if the linear strips and corners are installed last. Am I overly worried about this? Is the bond and seal of the membrane on membrane overlap so good, this is a non-issue? My other question on membrane is; when installing them on shower walls, can I use the NoFlo large sheet, start at one corner, and work the sheet into the corner without cutting it and continue on to the other walls without cutting the corners? Just thought it would prevent a lot of potential failure points and eliminate vertical corner strips. Am I missing something?

Looks like a lot of work, I'll stick to tile redi pans and goboard. Both of which are readily available.

What other trade that has so much to do with finished looks and luxury has so many bad jobs outt there? Ur right we should all strive to change that. We have to EVEN out the number of good tile installers. Prevent whoever we can from failing.

Do you ship to Canada? Unfortunately, we do not have awesome products like FLOW fx here. The best we got is Schluter, however, I don't really trust them much anymore after following your channel for a few years. Hope we can get these products out here asap!

that extra wide width is a great option 👍

New subscriber. I’m learning a lot. Thanks for the video!

Another great video Isaac. I've watched a lot of your videos and notice you use a lot of different products. Is it because of different styles of showers, or are you just always testing new products that you think are the best? As of now, what system would you recommend to a DIYer with some tile experience to use for a walk in shower? You mentioned in this video how the tile redi system is good for DIYers, but I'm wondering why you wouldn't always use that? Is it a price difference for your clients? Thanks for the great and helpful videos!

Did I miss the brand of thinset mortar? I am guessing its Versabond by Custom?

What was the brand of highly modified thinset you were using?

It would have been nice if Issac specifically identified the thinset he's using in this video or at least mentioned it in the information section instead of just saying "This is my preferred thinset" 04:20. In one of his replies below he simply states: "Mapei Keraflex Super, Laticrete 254, Customs Flex Bond all would be good choices" (none of which identify what he's using in this video). That said, due to the the color and creamy consistency it looks like Laticrete Multimax Lite! And... in one of his earlier videos titled: "Installing a FloFX Drain in a SCHLUTER KERDI FOAM PAN!!! - He states: "I mixed up Multimax Lite thinset, Multimax Lite has no sand in it, it's highly modified. And this Latecrete Multimax Lite is what I use for all my of my sheet membrane installations and for putting down foam trays when I use them".

Kirk for the win! Please pass on the good luck!

What thinset are you using to put down the sheet membrane? You talked about it but I didn't catch the name.

Make a guidline on the outside edge with a center mark and trowel the thinset then you just have to line up the outside edge and the mark and drop the sheet *edit This way you can run the membrane up the wall easier also Yes im still watching atm lol

Great stuff as always brother. Thank you 🙏

In my opinion the waterproofing should be throughout the bathroom if it's curbless, the big problem that no contractors explain to customers is when you have a toilet backup it's going to flood the lowest points first, so the curbless shower makes a guaranteed flood any time the drain backs up even a little bit, which I've found almost none of my customers snake their drains preventatively they wait till the flood to fix the problem, pretty stupid if you ask me...

Hello I'm Donnie and I really appreciate your video's. I have question about curbless showers. Do you have to have fall in the whole bathroom or just the shower itself? Thanks again Donnie

Nice work brother!!

may i ask who makes the thinset that you recommended here? thanks. great video and love your work.

Amazing work!

You didn't state the thinset details. I'm big on prolite from custom for that work.

Is NoFlo rated for Steam Showers? There's basically no technical information or install instructions on their website.

Great video! What wall board did you use and the black joint liquid membrane?

after putting down your deck mud and how do you work without disturbing the sand, is that what your panels were for over the cardboard?

What does the lifetime warranty actually cover?

Could you please tell us more about the crack isolation? What is the brand? Is it just a liquid or is it a liquid and a membrane? Thank you!

How do you stop wicking from the shower tile to the rest of the floor tile? Hope I am describing the question adequately.

I purchased densshield for my shower walls and ceiling . Should I tape and waterproof each seam and screw or will thinset over these areas be sufficient?

What thinset did you use?

Wouldn't sheet membrane first then bands and corners running on top of it be a better system? You mentioned it briefly. It might be easier ( nicer to your floor) if you do the corners and bands first, but that system seems like it could fail with all the gravity feed water running down the walls. Any thoughts??

The correct term is "linear foot." This term is used to measure length in a straight line. For example, if you are measuring the length of a piece of lumber, you would measure it in linear feet. "Lineal" is a term typically used in genealogical contexts to refer to direct descent or ancestry, such as in "lineal descendants." Therefore, when measuring length, "linear foot" is the appropriate term to use.

What do you use on irregular angle corners that aren’t 90’s?

This highly modified thin-set fall under A118.15? Improved Modified?

You said that you’re using a “highly modified “ thin set that doesn’t allow moisture to penetrate but you don’t use it to set tile. Why not?

I don't think you ever called out the thin set make and model? Maybe I missed it

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I still like the bruce jenner method of installing pan membranes better. IYKYK

Are you running the wp membrane around the room perimiter?? It doesn't take much for water to roll to the edge if the room....

Isaac , do you put the membrane over the foam shower pans , or can you ?

We love you, too.

Do you do anything to the walls past the band? Thanks

Hey I wanted to sign up for your $900 float class. Are you no longer doing that??

@tilecoach can you tile over tile.. I'm extremely concerned.. I don't have the money to hire another contractor to redo the shower.. I just hired a contractor and its costing me 12k to convert the tub into a shower and they used kerdi board and then "water proofed" it... the mosaic tiles on it look like a roller coaster and they are saying the mortar will fix it.. but I know its not pitched properly. 1 foot around the drain looks like a huge valley to where the drain is, but the drain is actually like 1/4 to 1/3 inch higher than the tiles.. and the floor mosaic tiles by the walls look like they are on angles.. They say I'm not a contractor and don't know what I'm talking about.. just to trust them which I don't.. I know they don't have 95% coverage behind the shower tile as I'm able to see behind it as well.. Not sure what to do.. I contacted another contractor who stated it would be 10-20k to redo the job. I wasn't sure if I could cover their floor tile and tile myself with a proper pitch to fix it? I have no idea what to do and a 10-15k job is now going to cost like 30k if I have to a pay a second contractor to redo the work of the first one who still hasn't finished.

Why can't you use an extra 4 inches of the floor membrane to put on the wall instead of the band?

curious about the flood test on this? how?

How do you finish that corner without cornerbead on?

How do you water test a curbless shower?

I thought that non-mod thinset is used between 2 impervious layers because the mod thinset won't get enough air to dry/cure. Whereas the non-mod thinset uses the trapped moisture to cure. But you are using the mod-thinset to do the corners and the banding which is membrane on membrane??? Thanks

Wouldn’t it be better to add the banding then the corner pieces on top of the banding?

You used to promote Ardex 8 & 9 quite a lot for shower waterproofing, so I've used it on my pans and bottom 6"-8" of my shower walls. You don't seem to mention it anymore, so was there a problem you ran into? I'm not a fan or RedGuard, and Mapeis Aqua Defense comes apart with thinset on top. Please advise. Thank you.

Can I use these banding and corners with Schluter shower pans instead of getting ripped off by Schluter?

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Its pretty much the same as schulter.

Go kirk!

9:45 Please, do not ever let your tail come out.

Linear* foot ... lineal is for ancestry

Im surprised you haven't came out with your own products yet Isaac. You can have a manufacturer OEM all of that stuff for you and keep the money in your pocket. Just sayin! You work too hard not to havw your own brand. Why give all your money away to the companies that have 1500% markups? Lol

Got nothing but hate from this channels viewers. Wow