Question About Standalone Tub In A Shower/wet Room

[Molly Totoro]

Hello,

New to the board and searched for this question but did not find it so here's a new post.

We are redoing our master bath to have a stand alone tub inside the shower. And we are trying to figure out where to place the drain and how to slope the floor. The plumber is adamant that the tub must be level and that only the area where the shower is would be sloped, rather like the picture shown here (which is much nicer than my bathroom will ever look).

My concern is that in this event, water from the shower that lands near the tub or water that sloshes out of the tub will pool and become a slip and contamination hazard. I suggested placing a linear trench drain along the entrance to shower enclosure and sloping the entire wet room towards it but he says that the tub absolutely must be level. In Japan, where this type of arrangement is very common, the tub (usually made out of cypress) is shimmed slightly so that it is level but the floor is sloped.
However, do you think we should just do as the plumber suggests?

 

[Terry]

I side with your plumber. I would also set the tub level, and slope the shower floor.

 

[Sponsor]

 

[Molly Totoro]

So I don't need to worry about the water that lands around the tub on the level platform?

 

[Standardairconditioner]

If you are going to build a room like in the photo, I strongly suggest you look at the Schluter-Systems barrier-free wetroom videos.

 

[Kali]

Molly what did you end up doing?? We have hit the same hurdle with our wet room.