Steam Showers - Best Practices for your home

A run-through regarding steam showers and the types of material you'll use in your project. Tim explains!

[amyp]

is there a special exhaust fan you recommend to remove the moisture after each steam shower?

[DavidLee-utzn]

Did you box in your shower control valve and lines to prevent steam migration into the walls? That could present a mold issue down the road. Did you insulate all the walls since you could have a 30 to 35 degree temperature differential?

[zspeed]

How hot is the steam coming of the pipe? I may place my pipe under my bench. Is that a bad spot? It allows me to have a 4 ft run only.

When you say silicon the corners, can you elaborate?

[Buttastackz]

What model of recessed lights did you use? Yaving a hard time finding waterproof ones

[avinash]

Can i use hardy board and apply 3-4 coats of Redgard?

[zspeed]

Lighting? Can any wet rated can lights work? As long as it has waterproof trim?

[essentialjudge]

I kind of figure out how to exhaust a steam that gets into the bathroom and then condensates over the windows and then runs down out of the sails and created the latex paint to rejuvenate and wrinkled and then rot the windows talk about the exhaust!