Shower Tray

"Walk-in" is nice, until you have drain problems which is when having it up on a raised plinth with a removable panel at the front is a huge boon.

Tim

May not? or is not?

Are you ok with a step up to it?

Doing your own plinth will leave you a much wide range of shower trays to choose from. Also you can use a nice solid stone resin tray which are much quieter in operation, and feel solid under foot.

Thanks - that is encouraging.

John Rumm snipped-for-privacy@nowhere.null wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@brightview.co.uk:

It would need a hole boring through a joist - which also carries a few cables. It would need alterations to the outside stack to accomodate a lower waste. I would definately need a tray with a drain on the short edge otherwise several joists would need boring.

- she currently has a (diabetic related) foot problem and cannot weight bear. Hopefully this will be resolved in a few months - but is spurring me into action as a seat in a shower would help.

No - going through the ceiling (lounge) would not be something I would want to do. I suppose going lower on the stack with a collar is possible.

You can get shower waste pumps that will pump uphill, so they can be installed higher than the shower tray. Not that I would really recommend relying on machinery unnecessarily.

Ah, ok that's not going to be a problem normally... even if you add on the height of the rim of the tray.

(I quite like a traditional "deep" tray rather than the modern ultra shallow ones, since when the long haired women of the house clog the drain, you get a bit more warning before it overflows!)

Yup, a strap boss is an easy way to get another connection to a soil stack.

And with a blanking plug, a way to deal with the redundant hole in the stack...