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• Posted in thread: Shower and its sub-floor? on 07-18-2007 at 11:42 AM
  Thanks for the replies. I am planning on building my own shower with a plywood subfloor over
  the concrete slab, then putting down tar paper, metal lath, mortar and the appropriate
  membranes as recomme...

• Posted in thread: Shower and its sub-floor? on 07-16-2007 at 10:41 AM
  Thanks for the reply. Any idea what constitutes this "sleave"? I looked around the forum and
  couldn't find the reference. Am I somehow wrapping the pipes in plastic? I'm not exactly sure
  how I would g...

• Posted in thread: Building a shower - starting with the base! on 07-11-2007 at 01:07 PM
  I am planning to build a shower in my downstairs bathroom (see first attached picture). The
  floor of the bathroom is built on a slab foundation. When I pulled out the old shower, it
  exposed the plumbi...

• Posted in thread: Shower and its sub-floor? on 07-11-2007 at 01:04 PM
  I am planning to build a shower in my downstairs bathroom (see first attached picture). The
  floor of the bathroom is built on a slab foundation. When I pulled out the old shower, it
  exposed the plumbi...

• Posted in thread: Patch repair a spring house wall? on 06-18-2007 at 08:30 PM
  Finished the job late Saturday afternoon. I built the forms more or less as you recommended,
  although I decided not to use the PVC pipe, since I ended up pulling out the outer form to make
  it easier t...

• Posted in thread: Patch repair a spring house wall? on 06-14-2007 at 10:02 AM
  Thanks for your reply, Square Eye. I wish I'd mentioned the fact that it does have a roof over
  the existing wall. This seems like it will substantially complicate things. Should I build the
  forms so t...

• Posted in thread: Patch repair a spring house wall? on 06-12-2007 at 08:26 PM
  My family owns property with a small house with water fed by a natural spring. The spring was
  protected about 30 years ago with a spring house made with concrete walls, probably about 2
  inches thick. ...

• Posted in thread: Replacing a corner post, Reinforcing the wall? on 08-21-2006 at 10:39 AM
  I was able to complete the project before going on vacation last week! It took me a full two
  days of work to do it all. I built a temporary wall, cut through a portion of the siding,
  pulled out the ol...

• Posted in thread: Replacing a corner post, Reinforcing the wall? on 08-06-2006 at 09:19 AM
  Yikes! I just started to pull away the siding from the outside corner there and I discovered
  that the corner post is nothing more than a 2x4. I was expecting it to be at least a 4x4. As
  expected that ...

• Posted in thread: Replacing a corner post, Reinforcing the wall? on 08-05-2006 at 06:26 PM
  Thanks for the ideas. I should be setting up the temporary wall tomorrow and hopefully making
  the repairs on Monday.