Bathroom Remodeling in West Hills, CA
Bathroom remodeling for older West Hills houses: a ducted humidity fan, a sloped and sealed shower, new pipes and flashed windows that keep water out.
Steam is the water a West Hills bathroom has to get rid of without anyone seeing it. A fan ducted outdoors and run by a humidity control, which California green building rules call for in a bath with a tub or shower, pulls it out before it settles on cold walls. Smooth metal duct carries it through the roof or an outside wall, ending at a damper, so moist air reaches the outside and never the attic.
Water from the shower
The shower floor slopes evenly to the drain, and the membrane under the tile sends anything that passes the grout down to the drain weep holes. A curb or a recessed floor keeps splashing water inside. Niches get a slight pitch on the bottom so they shed water, and a window sill in the shower is tiled on a slope with the membrane wrapped into the frame. Caulk goes at changes of plane, where grout would crack. If water gets behind the tile, these details give it a path back to the drain.
Leaks you cannot see
Supply lines inside the wall are replaced with new pipe while it is open, and the shower valve gets built-in stops so it can be serviced without shutting off the house. The toilet sits on a new flange and a fresh seal on solid subfloor. Outside, if a bathroom window is replaced, the opening is flashed and a sill pan sends water back out. A permit from the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety covers the work, and its plumbing inspection comes before the walls close.
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Water damage is the thing to look for. Around the tub and the toilet, the wood under old tile may be dark or soft from a slow leak. Drains may be cast iron and supply lines galvanized. A heavy mortar setting bed can also hide a sagging floor until it comes up.
If the enamel is sound, the tub can stay and get a new shower wall around it. The joint where tile meets the tub rim is the weak spot, so the membrane is lapped down to the tub edge and the final joint is caulked. The drain and overflow are replaced, and a worn surface can be refinished.
Under the tile, a bonded membrane makes the shower a sealed box with the drain as its only outlet. The floor slopes to the drain, the membrane laps into its flange, and walls are covered past the head. Before tile, the pan is filled and checked so a leak shows while it is still easy to fix.
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