Green Glass Pebble Tile

Regretfully,I did not take a before picture,but as you can see that around the drain the pebbles had to fit perfectly.

1/4 inch mosaic stone tile.

Placed perfectly around the drain and grouted with epoxy grout.Curb edging with Schleuter brushed nickel. Tile Source:Ceramic Tile Designs.

Shampoo Niches

Edging with Schleuter brushed nickel. Tile Source:Ceramic Tile Designs

Same Shower

Overview look.

1948 Neo-angled corner shower.

Post war Sunset District special.

Down to the studs.

Caught it in time.A little wet.

Finished result

Near matching tile to replicate original look.Tile Source:LATCH TILE of SanFrancisco

Full shower with 4"x 8" Bone colored wall tile and Blanca Carerra floor tile.

Tile Source:DALTILE

Another view.

Tile Source:DALTILE

Full view of same shower.

Tile Source:DALTILE

1936 Shower pan

Ingleside district in San Francisco.

Lead pan that gave out.

Lead pans were the norm back in the day.Eventually the alkali in the waterlogged cement base ate through.

Down to studs.

Caught it in time.Wet and a little mildew was forming before wood damage stage.

Finish result.

Exact same layout and same color tile.Tile Source:LATCH TILE of San Francisco

A shower pan in Oakland

This was done only one year ago.OH BOY!

The tile hack tiled over an existing leaking pan.

Yes ,there are incompetent hacks out there.

No membrane coming up the sides.

Bye bye pink.

Done to the same look but even better.

No cheap drain,Better symmetry in design and one happy customer.Yelp reviews 1935 pan.

Fiberglass pan.

Notice the king size crack around the drain.

Finished results.

Went up one full row plus adding a Brown Emperodoro strip to break it up.

1955 Laurel Heights in San Francisco pan.

Customer wants to add pizzazz to this and leaking like a sib.

Demo process.

Galvinized pan gives out.

Down to studs.

No wood damage.

Drain conversion.

Oatey-ez test drain.

Finished result.

Nearest color we came up with was from Floorcraft in San Francisco.

1931 Shower pan in San Francisco.

Love the old mosaic Frederichsen Tile back then.Impossible to replicate but my customer picked out great tile combo.

Down to studs.

Drain installed and what we have have is a pre-fabricated slope panels that precedes the pan liner installation.

Pan Liner.Oatey

Water test

Finished result.

Nice combination that has a retro/modern look.Tile Source:LATCH TILE

Wall tile in shower floor.Makeover in store.

Done only a few years back,customer wanted a makeover without the cost of a complete re-model.

Another view of before makeover.

I suggested tiling over existing pan and bench.

Here is the spruced up makeover.

Larger 12 x 24 tiles on floor, 2 x 2in. slip resistant tile to pan floor and 24x24 inch tiles on the bench.

Bench view.

Capped edges with Schleuter trim.

Finished result.

Notice the old band in the upper shower was removed and replaced with glass mosaic tile.She loved it!

Removed a bathtub and replaced with shower.

3x6 Blanca Carerra tile.

1925 Shower pan.

Built very well but the lead pan finally gave out.

Finished result.

Tile Souce:LATCH TILE

1925 Shower pan in Pacific Heights.

Similar pan done in 2012 same Apartment complex.

Down to studs.

Dry rot situation.

Very deep pan.(9 inches from top of curb to sub floor.

These old pans while ripping out are always difficult because of all the water lines iintersecting from adjacent apartments.

Dry rot repairs

WATCH THEM PIPES!! lol

Raised up the sub-floor with 2x4s

Water testing

Pan Liner: PASCO 40 mil vinyl liner.

Mud work.

Perfectly plumb,gauged and sloped.

Finished result.

Better than the original .The black liner that breaks up the tile also has that same trim outside the shower .

I installed this for a customer that wanted to tile the shower himself.

Yes.I do this for the Do-it yourselfers.

Ready for mud.

Pasco pan liner.

The King in action.

King in action.

Waterproof and mortar work.

Ready for tile.

(The customer did a great job tiling the whole shower.)

A shower done only 2 years ago.

Cracked pan,nailed down curb.NEXT FRAME!!

Nailed down curb into the membrane.

I saved all of curb and wall tiles.

He used a Pasco liner that was poorly installed resulting in failure.

My liner ready for mud.

Pan Liner:OATEY 40 mil vinyl.

Finished result.

New drain Better look, and all original wall and curb tile back in original place.

Pan done only a year ago.

Looks "OK".....

Demo phase.

I'll get to the bottom of this!

AHH HAAA! The "hack" couldn't figure out to weld neo-angled corners.

Look at all them staples.And 2 pieces of pan liner also. OH NOOO!!!

Other side of curb.

Couldn't believe the amount of wood damage in one year.

Curb piece "overlapping liner.

Real bright!

Finished result.

Done in San Carlos.

1938 Shower pan in Daly City

We'll save the best for last as this is one of my personal favorites.

Keeping the integrity of that 1930s look.

My customer didn't want the 1950s flair with the traditional border/ diagonal inset look of the easy 1 inch hex look either.So this is what I suggested...SAVE AS MUCH TILE AS POSSIBLE.......

I managed to save 3/4 of the pan floor .

With all pieces saved,I carefully detached all the tile from the adhering cement.

Found the perfect solution.

Knowing that Dal Tile sold that same Octagon mosaic tile with dots ,I came up with this design......

Keep Going....

This is all a loose layout before setting.

There!!....A nice ART DECO design.

Remember..I saved all those pink floor mosaic tiles.

And there you have it.

All the save tiles inserted and the #70 B&W Pink Tile that matched perfectly with the pink mosaic inserts.Grouted with Fusion Alabaster to create a aged grout look.