Hi All,
I am about to install durock cement board around my bathtub on three walls. I have a question, and look forward to your experience and any other installation suggestions offered.
1) I have researched online, and there seems to be a debate about bathtubs with tiling flanges. I have a Mirolyn Sydney. The debate is whether or not you bring the cement board down to the top of the tiling flange (and tile down to the tub, with a space behind), or to overlap the tile flange with the cement board and have the bottom angled into the tub.
My bathtub installation manual doesn't describe the installation, but shows the cement board on the top of the flange and the tile overlapping down to the tub edge.
www.mirolin.com/pdf_update/MIROLIN_INSTALLATION.pdf (Figure 5)
IF I bring it down to the top of the tub flange, do I need horizontal support (or a 2x4 horizontally) between my vertical 16 on center 2 x 4 studs? I don't want somebody in the tub to push against it and it flex and crack the tile or such. I doubt it would do that as it is pretty rigid stuff.
Please see the attached photos.
Thanks
I am about to install durock cement board around my bathtub on three walls. I have a question, and look forward to your experience and any other installation suggestions offered.
1) I have researched online, and there seems to be a debate about bathtubs with tiling flanges. I have a Mirolyn Sydney. The debate is whether or not you bring the cement board down to the top of the tiling flange (and tile down to the tub, with a space behind), or to overlap the tile flange with the cement board and have the bottom angled into the tub.
My bathtub installation manual doesn't describe the installation, but shows the cement board on the top of the flange and the tile overlapping down to the tub edge.
www.mirolin.com/pdf_update/MIROLIN_INSTALLATION.pdf (Figure 5)
IF I bring it down to the top of the tub flange, do I need horizontal support (or a 2x4 horizontally) between my vertical 16 on center 2 x 4 studs? I don't want somebody in the tub to push against it and it flex and crack the tile or such. I doubt it would do that as it is pretty rigid stuff.
Please see the attached photos.
Thanks