Shower Floor To Match Tub Drain

Having a clawfoot tub inside a shower is aesthetically pleasing and can be found in many different types of design specifications.

Shower floor to match tub drain. These features change the slope of the side of the tub for a more comfortable laying back position taken while bathing. Clawfoot tubs can have classic rill rims sipper tubs double slipper tubs and double ended tubs. We want to put in a tub shower combination but can not find a center drain bathtub. Feb 15 2008 my new tub fits perfectly within the cove area but the erich.

Select one the same length as the tub and you won t even need to add filler walls. The next obstacle is that the bathroom a is on a concrete slab within floor hearing so we are afraid to cut into the concrete not knowing where the. Erich new member joined. I am continuing the rip out and installation of my maax fiberglass shower floor.

The possible ease or probable difficulties that will arise in converting a tub to a shower are completely dependent upon how a home is built and the specific configuration of the existing plumbing in that home. I think the drain pipe needs to be moved. Bathtub drain doesn t line up with existing drain discussion in shower bathtub forum blog started by erich feb 15 2008. The offset is minimal but enough to be a pain.

In this video i had to open the wall to the left of the shower floor pan to. You push the mechanism down and turn it clockwise to close the drain when you want the tub to fill with water. Select a shower base that has the drain located at one end right or left chosen to match your old tub drain. If your drain is centered in the existing 36 square pan you have 18 from drain to wall.

Since the drain position roughly matches the tub drain you may not have to add a separate vent cut out and patch the floor or reroute the drain line. This is a shower in my basement so the drain pipe goes straight into the slab. The existing shower drain does not match the whole in the new shower pan. The new drain does not match up with the existing drain pipe.

That the minimum slope of the shower floor be at least 1 4 per foot that the maximum slope be 1 2 per foot and that the height of the curb needs to be 2 above the height of the drain. Going from a tub to a shower is not often an easy process since it is a violation of code to run a 2 line which is required by the new shower into a 1 existing tub drain. I am lost at what i can do to fix. A tub drain requires you to manually close and open it with a lift and turn mechanism or a lever.