FULL SHOWER BUILD ..TIME LAPSE

I show the entire process of a shower build...perhaps SOME details were left out due to time constraints, but overall this is how I build every shower. And each one is 100% waterproof using MY METHOD.

[@StarrTile]

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[@fishon3586]

I thought u hate dry pack moartor?

[@StarrTile]

@fishon3586 I speak about different ways to do anything but I still prefer my way the best. Most homeowners have a difficult time with a dry pack because there's no recipe for how much water to add and it usually turns out Dusty and non-workable so I don't push it very much.

[@fishon3586]

@@StarrTile gotcha so it's ok to add more water it won't hurt you pan and also I see you water proof your pans now ? Is this still ok to do?

[@StarrTile]

@@fishon3586 if you go back on my Channel about 8 years ago you will see my mortar is a bit wet..not so wet that there will be a problem but enough that there will not be dust at the end, and yes I definitely waterproof the entire surface of My Pan and including the walls, showered should be functional with no title on it is the mantra

[@fishon3586]

@@StarrTile thanks

[@brianschrier6193]

Thank you so much for not adding music to the background. The voice over was awesome. Really explained a lot.

[@calebmoos7742]

Thanks for doing a time lapse! It’s always fun to see the idiosyncrasies each job has and these are fun to watch

[@aliiuso3470]

I appreciate you explaining all the steps for beginners, it makes sense when you talk people thru every step no matter how tedious the job👍🏼God bless 🙏🏽🤙🏼

[@tripledstickers]

Glad to see your work. It took me well over a month to complete my shower. Keeping in mind I work 7 days a week at my job. The red guard is a must and i hope everyone uses it. I ended up using a trough drain and everyone that sees that are impressed. Also installed one of the frameless doors which really looks great. Keep up with the great videos.

[@thomasrecker221]

Thanks for the time lapse video. I really like how you applied the profile! Leaving a void to be filled later. I'm definitely going to try that.

[@SuperPowerdaniel]

Excellent videos and have been very helpful walking me through my bath remodel. Thank you

[@pattyhernandez5432]

Absolutely love watching you work!!!

[@matthewmclaren9353]

Thanks much for the video. As much as we like to see and hear about mistakes, it's more satisfying to watch a beautiful space come to fruition, crafted by a master.

[@briang3033]

Hey Bob, Can you please upload more videos like this. This was awesome and very educational. Thank you for the upload, I know it’s a lot of work to film and work at the same time. Thank you!

[@stevej677]

Thank you for posting this video. Seeing the overview was very helpful.

[@nickblack9728]

Great video; and great timing. I’m doing the exact same remodel job this week , but found that my stack pipe was in the knee wall. 🥴 My first time doing tile, thank you for your videos!

[@denniswebb7068]

Awesome craftsmanship, he does a very good job.

[@dfw_motorrad1329]

I'm starting on a custom tile shower now. Your videos have been more than helpful to get the small details and order of operations right. Wish me luck.

[@dfw_motorrad1329]

Update: Plumbing is done, drain flange glued and screwed, subfloor is closed up. I dropped the bottom layer of subfloor so that the top of that layer is at the top of the joists so I could get 1.5" subfloor while keeping it as low as possible. Lots of 2x4 bracing under that subfloor. Man, is it solid. Blocking is in for the pan liner and shower tower, niche and curb are framed out. Ready for liner and mud bed.

[@jtroch1023]

Another fine project. Bet you get to choose the work you accept . Good for you. !

[@matthewbegin3462]

Great video Bob, well done

[@brandonmahoney9407]

You’re a true craftsman! Excellent attention to detail. Nice work 👍

[@fencerider1492]

Awesome vid Bob, hope u make more of em. 👍

[@exidi19]

Amazing work , of course you are old school the best way there is. This was really entertaining to watch. 👍🏻

[@gatoborracho4572]

Sr.. just watching you work like that with those results...encourage me to renew my shower....thanks for helping others understand how is your job done ✔

[@nickjames205]

Wow! What beautiful work.

[@BlahBlahManYeah]

Great video and narrative!

[@JEMCC]

That was just fantastic .... Thank you and I learned a lot.

[@rickpye2465]

A true craftsman. Very nice.

[@StarrTile]

Thank you !

[@BT-kt7gb]

You are awesome. I am fallowing your lead on tiling my reno bath project.

[@WillaHerrera]

That's an absolutely beautiful job. I love love love the time lapse. Thank you

[@StarrTile]

Thank you !

[@WillaHerrera]

StarrTile You are very welcome sir. Thank you for sharing your knowledge you have no idea how many showers you have saved all over the world. I know I have learned some things from you that I had no idea about. You are a true artist. Just doing a job and never learning and changing things so they work better is just a job. You learn and sculpt things and finesse the job so it's amazing.

[@grilledchickenwrap]

fabulous!! awesome video!! from start to finish... I enjoyed watching it :)

[@timtoolman6442]

You're hands down the best tile gut on KZbin... All the other guys like sal and Issac just brag on themselves, you provide useful info

[@zeroeffort1572]

Made it look so easy. Having done a similar job i know its far from easy. Cant beat experience!

[@Bukata100]

Awesome job!

[@toddolson573]

Bob, I really like how you go about explaining everything you do. So when you do a taper cut in the floor to allow the drain base to fit flush with the existing floor, I had thought on this quite extensively; have you consisered using a router and flush cut bit to route out the debth and circumference of the drain base after having scribed the diameter of the floor drain upon said floor. I actually applied this to my own build and was quite pleased with the outcome as it left me a more flat area to screw the drain base down to, and without having to remove an excess amount of material, as i noticed in your video. Again thanks for for all your input, its been a lot of help in doing my shower build. Take care.

[@10americanpatriot]

Brother .....you are a master!!!

[@StarrTile]

Thank you sir

[@socksincrocks4421]

Uncle Junior? Thanks for your video. Awesome

[@lucille_3]

Yes!!!! Please do more of these

[@timkinnison4968]

Awesome video. Learned a lot.

[@rickybellamy8191]

Nice job! So talented. You make this look easy.

[@toddr.4630]

Excellent job ✌️ much appreciated, makes me proud to see great work like this 👍, you did everything 100% , thorough, complete, 5 5tar work tilesetter !!!! 😝 👍

[@KnJsThailandAdventure24]

I have watched many, many of your video's (all very good!) and think that the way you did this one was outstanding!! I really enjoyed that and learned a lot!! Thanks!!

[@litoloco4fish]

this to me is by far my favorite of your videos ..it made such a difference to me since I'm very visual...watching you work was great 👍 very good skills in my opinion

[@fuzzresponder2225]

Great video, and thank you for the education!

[@Theresistance64]

I love that tile. I'll be using that.

[@DJDavidValentino1]

Awesome Video - Thank you!

[@johnotoole9070]

Beautiful work man, you're videos have taught me alot👌👍 I also taper my tiles around the drain, and I found it's pretty easy to taper the tiles around square drain corners with a diamond file.

[@jpjp3873]

Is tapering only for a natural stone tile? Seems like it wouldn't be appropriate for ceramic tiles.

[@scoobtoober2975]

I was sweating about my drain height. Not anymore. Better a touch low than high. Love you work. I'm almost to tiling. 36" linear drain. Buried in mortar bed. Can't change it now. Red guard everywhere

[@hopelessmotorsports5922]

Great video

[@zhichen2463]

Great video, keep up the good work!!

[@BetterToDIY]

Great job as always, enjoyed the time lapse with commentary. I would even consider turning the video into 2 parts, stopping at the red guard then second video doing the rest.

[@holdernewtshesrearin5471]

Beautiful shower!

[@robhayes3503]

Looks great.

[@troywehr4029]

You do great work man. I have a little tile experience but would like to get better at it. It would be awesome if you did a detailed video with up close shots of things like setting the drain assembly with the measurements that you typically go with, as well as about how high you hold you're wall board off the pan. Thanks man

[@35son]

THAKS SO MUCH for the voice over choice

[@hosackies]

Watching the master at work! What a wonderful joy!

[@ubermenschen3636]

Beautiful job!

[@jeremygroom7598]

Excellent!!

[@EverydayworkAli]

Very nice work. Thanks for the info.

[@StarrTile]

Thanks

[@purtis99]

Always enjoy your videos

[@StarrTile]

Thanks !!

[@mattmason7554]

Excellent 👍👍

[@michaeljones2210]

Very very nice man!

[@j.d.8457]

Love your videos! I wish you were still doing tile showers. I need a true craftsman like yourself here in Georgia.

[@StarrTile]

I am in Georgia👌

[@TileMasterGa]

Stay safe Bob during your journeys !

[@StarrTile]

Thank you sir, I appreciate that... You do the same 👍👌

[@TheSanctuaryPR]

Very informative, i would hire you in a flash to do my bathrooms!

[@np1000]

Really nice

[@martinradtke5181]

Wow! Got dizzy with accelerated video but very informative. My 1st ever attempt tile shower stall 60" x 34" after plumber is finished this week. Oh boy! The devil is in the details.....Thank you! My plumber is putting in an acrylic pan.

[@1dt1971]

Looks awesome. Really would like to see how the shower door system works, especially with the bench flush with the curb.

[@markg7963]

You def earned my subscription

[@alextran8046]

this was amazing to watch. you've convinced me its impossible to ever DIY my own shower.

[@StarrTile]

😂😂😂

[@luckydougfergus]

Alex Tran: You are funny!!

[@seekthtruth]

Awesome, you rock

[@alexromero2295]

Thank You, amazing work

[@peterdean5300]

Great job as always, you make it look so easy, and i know it's not.

[@carsongoodman5581]

I can’t believe they paid for that shower and decided to keep the old knob and faucet 😐

[@StarrTile]

IKR, that's exactly thought too

[@kkatlvolvo]

Was adding the same same thing. Keep a $50 shower head on a 8 day job. Nice work as always though!!

[@wheelie707]

I would have bought them a new trim kit...

[@eddiepullman4776]

You do great work but please... I’m 25 years in this business. Ya gotta put some knee pads on lol.

[@suspicionofdeceit]

And the ceiling with that texture!

[@tomstclair961]

Great job💪💪🇺🇸✌️😎💰💰💰💰

[@GilBatesLovesyou]

This is really good. I ran into trouble on my first tub surround, with what I call the "100% coverage fallacy." It made it look a lot worse as far as lippage and other stuff than it could have if I really knew what was going on, and that the sky wouldn't fall without "100% coverage" on walls. Notches on the trowel are mainly there to set the mortar height, they'll be generally 1/2 of the notch size (ie, 1/4" x 1/4" collapsed gives you 1/8" of mortar under your tile, 1/2"x1/2" gives 1/4" etc.) It's actually much better to start with the smallest notch size you can and basically work up to say, 1/2" x 1/2", rather than start big and have nowhere to after to make corrections. On floors it's a little different story, but on walls you do have more leeway as long as you're not spot bonding stuff or building up tons of mortar. Ideally I think you could do a whole shower with even big LFT with 1/4"x1/4" if the tiles were flat and you had a perfectly flat wall, too, but the world isn't ideal. It's almost a trade secret, I find that a lot of tilers won't outright say they do, but in actuality happens. Even if you look at Sal or similar, you'll see him a lot of times doing 1/4"x1/4" and doing it to both the wall and the tile, so he can correct it. But then if you look at coverage charts on mortar bags and the TCNA, they're adament ALL 12"x18" tiles for example MUST use a 1/2"x1/2" with back buttering or else they'll fall off the wall, and it's simply not true. I can understand, because at the same time if they said nothing you'd bet you'd get v-notches and spot bonding galore, but it's not something really understood, the 100% coverage fallacy.

[@mrcool648]

Omg you super awesome you teach me a lot thank you for making this video

[@robertsimmons1264]

I learned the ledger board trick from Tile Master also. It's the best.

[@tripledstickers]

Wouldn't do it any other way. Once I seen that it made complete sense to go that route.

[@SergeNiko]

Awesome Videos! thank you for taking the time to be so detailed! Question on the niche, why dont you set your bottom tile, then the niche wall tile on top of the bottom tile? that way water runs off the bottom tile from the niche wall.

[@jonathanesley]

Very nice

[@spellyspell8758]

Love it

[@brenyz5013]

Dam this guy is good !!!

[@tscoffey1]

Coo. Bob at warp 8.

[@dariusjabari9429]

Super job. I liked your professional work very much. Very well done, and very informative. Please keep up the good work and continue posting your projects. Many thanks for this wonderful video.

[@Mr1Grumpy]

Wow. 👍💪

[@albertgamez8132]

Nice

[@omarduque9081]

After all this I will like you to come to see one of my projects and give your opinion somethings I do it different way but its very similar. looks good !!!

[@designerdrains8544]

Thanks for showing install of your shower project, I would love to suggest your video to some of my customers if that's ok with you?

[@StarrTile]

Sure, no problem

[@gorillacookiesfv3135]

No leveling system? Dang. I just did a vertical strip like that...I would have liked that pencil separation so I didn't have to be so perfect lining up all these little stones with the field

[@andysparks7381]

Beautiful work, StarrTile. I think I may have missed it, but did you say not to use a notched trowel for the mosaic floor tile?

[@davesenor3146]

Awesome video, loved the detail. Question on the ledger board...Is it screwed in place, if so is there any necessary waterproofing of the holes once removed? Thanks!!

[@StarrTile]

Silicone in holes after removing boards

[@joejoe6949]

Cane out nice

[@MrTooTechnical]

very nice. i noticed the shower valve wasnt centered in the marble? and yes, i wanna see the redguard painting next time. great work. ALso, thank god the 6 holes you made for the plumbing you corrected with a large sheet in the end. And your shiny new ryobi tools. Woohoo.

[@StarrTile]

Valve was off mosaic about 3/4"...I tried

[@vicarod]

@@StarrTile Bob, I noticed that too. What drove that? Is it guess work? The owner not wanting to pay to relocate plumbing lines? Or would the larger tile look off if you centered the mosaic?

[@StarrTile]

@@vicarod stud was in the way and valve was set to it way before tile was set

[@saras.2946]

Wow. I am the first subscriber!

[@weldon9254]

My knees hurt watching you lay that mud bed...

[@michaelcameron4148]

Someone send the man a pair of No Cry knee pads!

[@shitboxoffroad]

You're awesome!!!! Wish I could donate!

[@brianschrier6193]

Question: I know you said walls don't need to be waterproofed but you protected yours. If you use greenboard exclusively do you need to use a membrane over top?

[@ginagvlogs2386]

for a fiberglass shower pan install can i add a pony wall on top of the curb? really nice work

[@StarrTile]

Yes I have done it from time to time... fairly easy process

[@embecmom5863]

looks amazing work.. so question was on one of your other vids. not taking the backer board into the pan can you explain that? I looked at how you did it here and obviously its sitting behind, and not taken all the way down..how is the tile supported at the very bottom in the shower?

[@StarrTile]

There is a link of the process how I do it anyway that is posted in the description area

[@ajlewis4562]

I'm starting out and gaining experience, these videos help. How did you learn? Just through yourself into it? Have you ever have a build go bad? Or make mistakes when you started out. Seems like everyone on here doing showers claims to be perfect lol, just helps to know how people developed their skillset.

[@StarrTile]

I got started doing floors and backsplashes and eventually got into the building showers, yes I have made plenty of mistakes when I first started out but so far only a couple of callbacks that were minor. I did not Mentor or read any books, when you tear things out and realize how they're put back together and do it better that's the best way in my opinion

[@hectorbart]

Great video, thanks for posting. What do you think of shower wall panels?

[@StarrTile]

I personally don't like them but I suppose it's easier than tiling

[@shafi10a]

Hi bob. Love your videos! Question, are your screwing in cement board over your curb? Won’t that penetrate your pvc liner?

[@StarrTile]

Yes I screw in backer board through the liner into the curb. Then it's buttered with thinset, then a few coats of redgard. The liner is by no stretch your first line of defense...the curb top/tile is, then the redgard is your protection...liner and everything else is a backup.

[@ronaldglen4636]

It looks like there is a half inch gap between the wall board and the mortar bed. Once you have done your redgaurd and tile is there a concern about the void? Caulking might do more harm then good. Seems like a weak spot. What are your thoughts. Thanks again for your time.

[@WorksforMe]

Very helpful video, did you do a leak test, sorry if I missed it. Also I have heard that the redgard on top of the mortar can form a moisture sandwich so not required, I wonder if that is true

[@StarrTile]

I generally don't do a flood test because my method is the same for every shower so it would be a little redundant , but I do recommend a homeowner or DIY er do a flood test. The only way you could have any mold sandwich is if moisture gets into your mortar bed, I'm confident in my ability to waterproof the surface so I'm not concerned