Framing Bath/Shower Walls

JackOfAllTrades

I am working on a bathroom remodel for a customer who wants a custom, tiled shower. The shower sits in a corner with a about an 18 inch wall on the left and a 3 foot wall on the right. The door will sit in the wall between these two partition walls. The older carpenter on the job with me hadn't done many of these kinds of showers, either, so I wanted some suggestions for the next time I come accross this type of framing project. How do you handle odd corners caused by custom designs like this?

Leonard

Mike Finley

I'm not sure what you are asking? I suspect you are asking how do you make these two partition walls extremely sturdy? That is the main issue I run into when I am faced with what you are doing and they don't run all the way to the ceiling.

The secret usually lies in openning up the subfloor and running some of the framing down through the sub-floor to connect it to a joist below. If you can get the far un-attached end of this wall framing down and attached it will help make it more sturdy, the 2nd thing is to make these walls out of 2x6 instead of 2x4. The 3rd thing is to add a layer of plywood over both sides of the framing of these partition walls much like what I think they call a shear wall in house framing. Doing all that and I usually end up pretty bullet proof.

I hope that addresses what you are asking, if not post again with a bit more specifics.

Teetorbilt

18" to 36"? I do the math. You could also lay it out, full size, on a piece of cardboard or luan. I use cardboard templates a lot when working on yachts, just keep on trimming until you get an exact fit.

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