Shower-Pan Showdown
To the Editor:
Thank you for the recent article
"Leakproof shower Pans," (JLC,
11/89). As the manufacturers of Chloralory
– the original CPE shower pan
liner – we want to offer the following
comments.
The article contains a great deal of
good information in its comparison of
plastic liners versus the more traditional
metal and hot-mop pans. It
does, however, contain some misinformation
or misstatement of facts in its
comparisons within the group of plastic
liners, CPE and PVC.
The article's author, Mr. Duncan,
states the CPE has two principal disadvantages
to PVC: price and workability.
He suggests that because CPE is
stiffer it is more difficult to work with.
In fact, because CPE is stiffer, it folds
more sharply