Shower Floor To Match Tub Drain

Select a shower base that has the drain located at one end right or left chosen to match your old tub drain.

Shower floor to match tub drain.

Erich new member joined. Code requires a couple of things. I am continuing the rip out and installation of my maax fiberglass shower floor. This is a shower in my basement so the drain pipe goes straight into the slab.

Select one the same length as the tub and you won t even need to add filler walls. A tub drain requires you to manually close and open it with a lift and turn mechanism or a lever. If your drain is centered in the existing 36 square pan you have 18 from drain to wall. 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.

Clawfoot tubs can have classic rill rims sipper tubs double slipper tubs and double ended tubs. I am lost at what i can do to fix. I think the drain pipe needs to be moved. The offset is minimal but enough to be a pain.

These features change the slope of the side of the tub for a more comfortable laying back position taken while bathing. Feb 15 2008 my new tub fits perfectly within the cove area but the erich. We want to put in a tub shower combination but can not find a center drain bathtub. Having a clawfoot tub inside a shower is aesthetically pleasing and can be found in many different types of design specifications.

A shower uses a floor drain which directly eliminates waste water from the shower instantaneously as you bathe. 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. In this video i had to open the wall to the left of the shower floor pan to. 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.

The new drain does not match up with the existing drain pipe. The existing shower drain does not match the whole in the new shower pan. Is answered by a verified plumber we use cookies to give you the best possible experience on our website. Bathtub drain doesn t line up with existing drain discussion in shower bathtub forum blog started by erich feb 15 2008.