Hi guys - first post here. We bought a house a year ago and stretchted ourselves a little to get something a bit better. We did all the right things, building inspections, approval searches etc. 3 months after buying I did a bit of investigation around a small water 'weep' under the bathroom shower tray. One thing led to another and I popped a few times off in the recess only to find the walls full on fungating mould:
This timber floor (19mm hardwood over 19mm compressed chipboard flooring) has been removed to just the joists:
We didnt have the $15k to pay someone to do the work so I ripped out the bathroom, floor, floor sheeting, walls, lining - everything and we moved to another end of the house.
I now need to build the bathroom myself. I have renovated before but have never done a bathroom. I have no choice but to do it myself. If money permits I might be able to pay a tiler later on. But for the meantime I need to decide on a shower base style. I have spoken to the guys at Wet-Seal and they can do me a hobbed style base to suit my dimensions. I have also looked at the Marbletrend tile trays that would leave me with a flush floor from bathroom into the shower recess. I like the idea of a flush floor but if it is too risky (future water leaking) I would be happy with the hobbed shower recess.
Has anyone here used the Marbletrend tile tray ? Are there any other styles/brands of tray systems ?
I have pulled the floor out to floor joist level and I have the Scyon 19mm compressed floor sheeting just sitting in there at the moment - I am just waiting to work out if I need to recess anything before I fix it down. The intention was to then lay a tile underlay over that and screw it down at 100mm centres.
Any ideas would be appreciated.