dimprov
New Member
I could use some advice on whether a remodel design for a level entry shower will work. Basically:
beforeF.png is the as-built floorplan for a guest bathroom and part of a laundry.room.
beforeR.jpg is a rendering of the as-built guest bathroom.
afterF.jpg is the remodelled guest bathroom. It steals some space from the laundry room, and adds two linear drains.
afterR.jpg is the corresponding rendering.
now.jpg is in-between before and after. It is a photo I took after doing some forensic demolition this past Saturday of the as-built bathtub.
Why "forensic" demolition? Because I wanted to locate the bath trap and its relationship to some post-tension cables running through the slab. As best I could using the instruments I had, I located the post-tension cables and marked their location on the concrete slab using a red marker. I also represented them on the floorplans using red lines.
So, here's the issue: the drain for the just demolished bathtub is on the "wrong" side of the post-tension cables vis-a-vis the linear drain I want to install. However, it seems that if I used two separate linear drains, I could tie one into the waste line currently used by the soon-to-be demolished laundry-room sink, and the other I could (I hope) tie into the toilet's waste line, which I have to move 4 inches anyway to give more elbowroom in the shower. By doing it this way, I could can steer clear of the post-tension cables.
Does this approach to the plumbing seem feasible, or would it break some obvious international building code (like maybe connecting a shower waste lline too close to a toilet waste line or something)?
If it doesn't break code, then this design has the side benefit of providing a sort of drain redundancy (reserve/backup drain) for the remodelled level-entry shower. For instance, if one drain got clogged with hair, then the other drain could catch the overflow.
David
Austin, TX
beforeF.png is the as-built floorplan for a guest bathroom and part of a laundry.room.
beforeR.jpg is a rendering of the as-built guest bathroom.
afterF.jpg is the remodelled guest bathroom. It steals some space from the laundry room, and adds two linear drains.
afterR.jpg is the corresponding rendering.
now.jpg is in-between before and after. It is a photo I took after doing some forensic demolition this past Saturday of the as-built bathtub.
Why "forensic" demolition? Because I wanted to locate the bath trap and its relationship to some post-tension cables running through the slab. As best I could using the instruments I had, I located the post-tension cables and marked their location on the concrete slab using a red marker. I also represented them on the floorplans using red lines.
So, here's the issue: the drain for the just demolished bathtub is on the "wrong" side of the post-tension cables vis-a-vis the linear drain I want to install. However, it seems that if I used two separate linear drains, I could tie one into the waste line currently used by the soon-to-be demolished laundry-room sink, and the other I could (I hope) tie into the toilet's waste line, which I have to move 4 inches anyway to give more elbowroom in the shower. By doing it this way, I could can steer clear of the post-tension cables.
Does this approach to the plumbing seem feasible, or would it break some obvious international building code (like maybe connecting a shower waste lline too close to a toilet waste line or something)?
If it doesn't break code, then this design has the side benefit of providing a sort of drain redundancy (reserve/backup drain) for the remodelled level-entry shower. For instance, if one drain got clogged with hair, then the other drain could catch the overflow.
David
Austin, TX