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Pex crimp is good but I prefer Uponor. Or Wursbo. It's a memory pipe and is always trying to shrink back.

 

I love it! An unused shower froze last winter. I couldn't shut off the water to that without killing the toilet and sink that we still use. So I ended up turning everything in that room off, cutting out the shower section, then trying to close the loop in the basement, bypassiing what used to be the shower.

Previous owned bent the pipes so bad I couldn't get fittings on and leak free. I spent a couple hours before saying fuck it, and went for pex. I went with brass fittings soldered to the pipes, and then just the Sharkbite pex for the piping. SOOOOOO much easier than trying to do the same with copper! And no problems so far a year later. Not even a drip. That's more than I can say for a lot of the copper in this house.

 

Thanks for the clarification

 

Won this today

 

They're nice to use as long as it doesn't have the pussy trigger in it

 

Usually you can change the trigger to a bump fire

 

Don't need it since I have one already. Mine needs a new spring though, the safety doesn't work and it's on full auto lol

 

My very first tile job, underway.

 

Ah Ditra, good stuff. I use it on all of my tiling jobs.

 

He taught me most of what I know.....

I've never used the hardi backer or similar but the cost is well worth the added convenience of this stuff. Cuts like plastic sheeting and so much lighter and thinner. I'm far from a pro but it was pretty easy.

 

Nice! I'll be using Ditra Heat in a month or so when I start my bathroom remodel.

 

I've never used to flooring underlayment only their shower stuff. Our tile guy used it on one house and it did crack so not sure if he did it wrong if it was a failure on their part. This was back in 04 too.

Also can't stand mike Holmes.

 

Ditra works great , I have had one crack but that was in a house that had a significant dissimilar shrinkage issue

We just used the Ditra Drain product in an exterior deck

 

I need to replace the sub floor before I install the ditra and tile.

looks like there is a layer of 3/8'' ply then 3/4'' ply.

I don't want the bathroom floor to be too much higher than the hallway, so I've been trying to decide what to do for the new sub floor. I'm thinking a layer of 23/32" tongue and groove plywood, then a layer of 1/2" over that. I think ditra's minimum subfloor recommendation is 19/32 on 16" floor joists, so I think it should be plenty strong.
thoughts?

 

We usually use it over 3/4" plywood on 16" OC joists

The depth of joists and span are at least as important as the OC spacing in deciding on an adequate subfloor thickness

FYI Ditra comes in 2 thicknesses too

 

Most definitely good stuff. Only thing I will use since oz recommended it.

 

Hello all. completed our kitchen backsplash over ten-years ago (my first tilejob), and had installed 20 darker-colored tiles throughout for effect.
Wanted to modernize the accent tiles with some now-popular glass tiles cut from two single sheets.
Entire project costs less than $100 which included a $10 manual tile grout-removal saw which made the hardest part of the project not so difficult

 

Looks good!

 

I like it. The accent tile def makes it pop too.