Where can I buy a 1200x 800 or 900 shower tray - reasonable quality? B&Q do them but you have to wait 2/3 weeks (longer I think). There are dodgy looking ones on ebay, and v expensive ones from "bathroom studios" but I want what B&Q would have - but now.
cheers
Jacob
I think Wickes do them (stone resin ones, do you mean?).
Don't discount going to a specialist bathroom shop - as well as the pretentious 'Justin and Colin'-type outlets which you're thinking of, there are plenty of them around which just sell regular, everyday stuff at prices which compete with the sheds.
David
A lot of these shops use stuff from Bathroom Express (indeed, a lot of these shops' catalogues _are_ bathroom express', but with the shop's own cover!). They have a website but a lot of stuff in the catalogue is not on it, so it's best to see the paper cat (which you can get them to send you if you visit the site). Prices are quite reasonable, and you can order direct or via your local shop: with the latter you may be able to negotiate a better price than you'd pay direct.
Are you thinking of Jules and Sandy? Yes you are right - today I went to the nearest "Bona Showers" and found just the thing at a reasonable price with 3 days delivery. And I'd spent hours on the net unnecessarily. There's an opening here for a Terry Thomas type with a shop called "Absolute Showers" (older DIYers will know what I'm on about!)
cheers
Jacob
Bed it on something solid. My tray kept leaking and in the end I had to resort to Teleseal 10 which has sorted the problem for 18 months so far. Part of my problem though was that the floor is just not rigid enough for the spot weights of the legs.
Bin the legs along with the frame idea - it needs to go on something solid. Normal practice is to lay thermalite blocks on strong sand/cement, with a bed of same on top to get the level you require
Thanks Bill. I'd be grateful to know if anyone else has actually fitted a raised stone resin tray on a timber first floor, and what you did.
Cheers Richard
What sort is yours? I fitted a Coram one here about a year ago
It sits on floorboards, but presumably they are thick enough, and the joists close enough together, to prevent any flexing problems. Had that been an issue I'd planned on laying a sheet of 3/4" ply over the floorboards first.
Certainly there's no hint of movement in the tray now; it feels just as rigid and solid as our other shower tray (the 'traditional' heavy stone resin one)
hth David
Yes I have. In my case I had to set it up 4" so I built a plinth from ply, tested the whole drain system by dry fitting, then sand and cement.
The enclosure was to say the least odd..
Hang on I can post a photo...
the sand and cement really stiffens up a tray as long as its iomn a solid base - 3/4 ply is definitely the material to use - no messing about with anything less.
Thanks, and to everyone else. I think I ended up with the feet because I didn't have the conversation with the merchant about whether I was installing on a solid or a wooden floor. I've only door one shower before, and that was downstairs on concrete. I'll need to do some farting about with ply and a raised frame, then sand/cement, I think, as for various reasons the waste needs to remain above floor level.
Cheers Richard
In message , geraldthehamster writes
Yup, in my old house.
18mm ply supported on 4x2's, bedded onto mortar. doesn't need to be a thick layer, you are just wanting something to support the base and avoid voids.Main thing is to try and lower the tray vertically down onto the mortar.
Yes, the Cunning Trick there (as always, gleaned from this newsgroup) is to lay down your one-inch thich mortar bed, and then embed 2 or 3 one-inch battens in it running from back to front. You can then drop down the (heavy) shower tray on to that with impunity, and when you're happy with the positioning, just slide out the battens leaving the shower tray perfectly supported.
Works particularly brilliantly when you're fitting the tray into an alcove, and dropping it down perfectly vertically on to the mortar is pretty-well impossible, without use of a small crane and/or gaining a hernia. With the battens you can just slide the thing in, or lay it down on an angle.
David
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