Left hand shower drain, Mustee Showertub installation with pictures

[Terry]

Mustee 3060L Showertub

Mustee makes a Showertub shower pan which can install where a tub was. Most shower pans have centered drains, but this end drain makes things easier when replacing a 30 x 60 tub.

A little bit of mud set was needed here because the floor wasn't all that level.

They take their own drains, just a little bigger than normal.
Mustee 42.317A shower drain

 

[Terry]

The original bathroom was only a half bath, but had plenty of room to have had a tub. Someone just forgot to plumb for it. The plumbing needed to be added for a shower.

The original plumbing for a half bath and other lines that went upstairs.
This is your standard toilet configuration into a santee with 2" vent.

The new shower gets wet vented over the toilet now, using the 2" toilet vent. Looks quite a bit different this way doesn't it?
This picture makes it look spacious down there. When I turned sideways the fiberglass covered heat duct was rubbing my shoulder. Am I getting too old for crawl spaces? I took a sawzall and enlarged the crawl space opening to get down there. It was about a 17" high space.

Quite a bit of open space behind the wall, and framed to miss the furnace chimney. Bracing needed to be added to stiffen the wall and have a place to hang the valve.

Moen Posi-Temp, hot wired, I mean PEX'ed over to the water heater nearby. It was nice having a water heater so close.

And now the tile guy can show up and take out whatever wallboard he wants to prep it for tile. Maybe some more wood needs to be thrown down there too.

 

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[Terry]

Ed just sent me these pictures of the finished bathroom. Looks very nice.

 

[LLigetfa]

Maybe some more wood needs to be thrown down there too.

I see there is some special corner treatment (unsightly IMHO) and wonder if it was to compensate for movement cracking the grout? I screw/anchor the snot out of the corner studs so there is less chance of movement.

 

[LLigetfa]

I also like to stagger the valve and shower arm a little so the hose doesn't hang directly in front of the valve. I like to put the valve a little closer to the door and the arm closer to the back wall.

How would you do that here?
Terry Love

 

[Terry]

It's called https://dumawall-us.com/tub-shower-kits/
I was just sent the pictures today. Based on how it was framed, I'm sure everything is solid though.
Good eyes, I wasn't looking that closely. Ed says it's working well and he put it up in a day.