Hawaiian Gaijin
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Aloha from Hawaii.....
Thanks in advance....I think this forum is great!
I have pulled out an old cast iron bath tub and am planning to build a shower pan from scratch with an embedded liner.
The problem is that I am building on the existing concrete floor of an apartment condo. Floor is about 6 inches think and the P trap is below the floor up at the end close to where the tub drain was. I am unable to go to the apartment below and cut through their ceiling to build a new shower drain hole.
Hence....I need to build a tileable shower drain which will be on the concrete floor, and to make it as shallow as possible to reduce the height of the step up/down effect of entering/exiting the shower.
So far I have found a PVC shower drain with 90 degree elbow that comes up about 7 inches from the floor. With threshold, this will still be a big step down.
1) Is there any brand or product that exists for this problem?
2) I am assuming it is better to put my shower drain under the shower head instead of the middle of the 60 inch wide tub to reduce gunge build-up which may occur over time on the piping leading to the P-trap.
3) My P-Trap below is metal with a 1.5 inch opening. Also is it better to just remove this and replace it with new PVC or ABS?
Mahalo in advance,
Hawaiian Gaijin
Thanks in advance....I think this forum is great!
I have pulled out an old cast iron bath tub and am planning to build a shower pan from scratch with an embedded liner.
The problem is that I am building on the existing concrete floor of an apartment condo. Floor is about 6 inches think and the P trap is below the floor up at the end close to where the tub drain was. I am unable to go to the apartment below and cut through their ceiling to build a new shower drain hole.
Hence....I need to build a tileable shower drain which will be on the concrete floor, and to make it as shallow as possible to reduce the height of the step up/down effect of entering/exiting the shower.
So far I have found a PVC shower drain with 90 degree elbow that comes up about 7 inches from the floor. With threshold, this will still be a big step down.
1) Is there any brand or product that exists for this problem?
2) I am assuming it is better to put my shower drain under the shower head instead of the middle of the 60 inch wide tub to reduce gunge build-up which may occur over time on the piping leading to the P-trap.
3) My P-Trap below is metal with a 1.5 inch opening. Also is it better to just remove this and replace it with new PVC or ABS?
Mahalo in advance,
Hawaiian Gaijin