RapaNui
New Member
Hi all,
I last week I installed my shower pan (Dreamline Slimline 30" x 60") in a bed of Quickcrete Mortar following manufacturers instructions. I placed down tar paper on the plywood flooring and used the entire 60 lb bag, spreading it evenly across where the base of the pan would be set.
I've since noticed a slight popping noise in the middle of the pan. No visible flex, but obviously there's some movement. Noise really only happens when I first step on the pan or when I walk on the edges and then back to the center.
I tried adding foam insulation between the mortar bed and pan, which stopped the popping noise for a day or so, but then it reappeared.
My question is more of a sanity check... Is an acrylic pan ever going to be perfectly silent like cast iron? I'm not worried about it flexing so much that it will break, or the drain connection will leak. It's just bothering me that its making noise at all.
I last week I installed my shower pan (Dreamline Slimline 30" x 60") in a bed of Quickcrete Mortar following manufacturers instructions. I placed down tar paper on the plywood flooring and used the entire 60 lb bag, spreading it evenly across where the base of the pan would be set.
I've since noticed a slight popping noise in the middle of the pan. No visible flex, but obviously there's some movement. Noise really only happens when I first step on the pan or when I walk on the edges and then back to the center.
I tried adding foam insulation between the mortar bed and pan, which stopped the popping noise for a day or so, but then it reappeared.
My question is more of a sanity check... Is an acrylic pan ever going to be perfectly silent like cast iron? I'm not worried about it flexing so much that it will break, or the drain connection will leak. It's just bothering me that its making noise at all.
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