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Hi Jeff, no, you didn't miss anything... just me being an amateur. My logic in setting it that way was to encourage any rain getting into the vent to go straight down instead of taking the turn into that horizontal-ish pipe - maybe that logic was faulty. Since that's just a vent (and above...

Wedi has their own Wedi band, but I don't think they have 1/4" panels... but - since it's such a small shower I know the inside of the curb will be getting constant water and likely frequent footsteps, so I'm trying to go with something completely seamless. (call me paranoid but I want to keep...

Agreed. I'm only going heavy on the 3/4 ply because the hollow curb option from Wedi is designed to wrap around 3 2x4s. Their full-foam curb is indeed structural, but not the hollow one, so I need to make sure I can support the weight of the glass wall on top. I'm kind of locked into the Wedi...

The problem with the wye wasn't the height, but the width of the angled part of the wye plus the 60 making it's turn was wider than I have clearance for within even the widest curb option. With a 5" exterior width curb made of 3/4 foam, framing it with 3/4" plywood (plytanium if I can get it)...

Understood. Being that this is a true homeowner DIY situation though and the only standard I'm really being held to are the laws of physics, should this be functionally ok despite being questionable code-wise? I feel like gravity and conditions are all working in my favor even if it's not the...

The cleanout is a little too close to the wall so I had to face it sideways, but the access panel will be big enough where I can fit my whole hand in there to open it up. As for the santee, I went with that because too much of the wye stuck out of the floor where I would need to be building the...

PVC work done. This look ok?

After a bunch more investigation, looks like the curb idea is a winner. I'll replace the current wye with a new one, but rolled 45 degrees toward the back wall, then a 60 degree turn to make the horizontal offset into the wall. I'll frame it up with plywood around the pipe for strength since...

Makes sense. Like all things, I guess this turned into a bigger project than I planned it to be. Thanks for all the help.

Hmm... I see. I think I can squeeze another 3/4" of drop - the far right of where the shower needs to be is an exterior wall, and being an old house there's a bit of slope from there, so I'm going to need to shim the joists up a bit anyway to create a level subfloor for the shower pan, which...

The plot thicken! Or should I say, turns... I opened up the floor today and to my surprise, instead of joining the toilet and sharing a drain, it looks like the shower drain line makes a turn toward the rear of the house and meets up with the stack via another route. I was happy when I saw...

That's perfect. There's a closet on the other side of that wall so I can actually just hide an access panel low in the closet and face the cleanout toward that side, then I probably don't even need to jog left. Hopefully this is as straightforward as it sounds.

Wayne - that's genius - who says the curb can't be hollow? I think I'm going to use Wedi anyway, so I can just as easily frame it up to house the pipe and cover it with wedi board instead of using their pre-fab curb. Plus I need to anchor the glass wall anyway, and I might need a framed curb...

Thanks Wayne! It looks like the drain line is pretty close to the subfloor already so I might not have room. Knowing that I have to eventually get back to the toilet to meet with the drain, would your second option mean it's ok to route the drain toward the open wall instead of straight at the...

First off - what a great forum this is, I'm lucky to have found it. I imagine this is an easy question for some, but as I'm a DIY homeowner I want to make sure I get some advice. We're renovating a small square bathroom with a small walk in shower. There was a wall separating the side of the...