Installing a recessed shower tray.

Danye · 06-10-2016 7:25pm #1

Hi lads,

My mother has a shower in her house and a shower tray that sits about 7 inches above her finished floor. She's looking at getting one of those recessed shower tray that's tiled. Would it be a big job for me to remove the old shower tray and instal the recessed tray?

Any help or advice appreciated. Thanks.

Sleeper12 · 06-10-2016 8:02pm

When you say recessed are you talking about a shower room? No tray but tiles with a drain in them?

Danye · 06-10-2016 9:41pm

Sleeper12 wrote: »

When you say recessed are you talking about a shower room? No tray but tiles with a drain in them?

Sorry Sleeper, I should of been clearer but that is what I meant. I can't imagine it being a big deal?

Steve · 06-10-2016 10:05pm

Hard to say until you see where the drain goes. Is it on floorboards?

Sleeper12 · 07-10-2016 7:03am

Like Steve says. You are lowering the trap so the waste has to go lower. This isn't a big deal if it's going straight out of the wall but if it has a bit of a run first you might not have enough of a fall for the water to drain

Danye · 07-10-2016 10:28am

Steve wrote: »

Hard to say until you see where the drain goes. Is it on floorboards?

Hi Steve,

Yeah the tray is currently on the floorboards. I was thinking about it last night and it might not be as straight forward as I orginally thought.

Steve · 07-10-2016 4:59pm

My original ensuite shower was as you describe. The drain ran in a boxed in section behind the WC to a joiner to a 4" downpipe at floorboard level. I managed to lower the joiner / pipe by the required amount to fit a flush tray but it wasn't an easy job.

xiu · 10-10-2016 7:46pm

If you are tiling the floor (i.e no tray) it will need to be tanked and also up the walls ,dont depend on tiles/ grout to keep water in.

Installing a recessed shower tray.

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