Shower Drain

Bill_Vincent

You'd be shocked at what I'm capable of.

Besides, the person that gave me those codes is on the ANSI board, and my info was that those codes were for all 50 states.

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Bill_Vincent

I don't care about baseball-- it puts me to sleep!! But Eli says HI!!

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KillerToiletSpider

Some of us still remember that the name plumber comes from a latin term meaning "worker with lead", we still use lead to pour CI joints here too.

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Bill_Vincent

Well, I guess I just learnt something new!!

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R&D Tile

Says who, we use Kerdi on our jobs, and believe me, these ARE high end homes, the one we're doing now costs 18 mill and has 7 baths.

And I treat all the jobs I do as high end, whether the home cost 200gs or 18mill, they get the same service, you wouldn't do less of a job just because the home is worse less, would you?

Bud Cline

.....and how are the seams in the copper pan welded? Remember? Lead!!!

Well it used to be lead but that has all changed now. The point is...the joints are susceptible to corrosion and erosion from the cement as far as I know.

C.C.R.

Exactly, and the MA plumbing code says the pan is to be fabricated from non-corrosive material. Now he could have put some kind of barrier between the copper pan and the Cement floor, BUT HE DIDN'T.. He says he's been doing this for 10 years now..

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Bill_Vincent

Not for nothin, but copper's not exactly non-corrosive, either.

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C.C.R.

the lip on that bottom portion of the drain is a good 1/8" thick. So the water isn't going into the drain until it's higher than that.

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R&D Tile

Hard to see from here, but there should be weep holes in the bottom part of that drain to let water in at pan level.

R&D Tile

If you look in the photo of this drain, you'll see weep hole slots at the bottom of the clamping ring.

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C.C.R.

Thank you RD, that's the drain i'm looking for

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ayrhead

So should water normally be reaching the pan? Or is it a failsafe put in place just in case it does?

kevjob

with a dypack mortar bed water will reach the pan eventually, this is the reason behind the pre slope. the kerdi system is better because the membrane is on top if the pan not sandwiched in.

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MattCoops

Never mind.

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Twust1285

Did they do a water test on the pan???I always make sure they do one before they leave because it's so hard to get plumbers back after they hack everything up and leave. not having the weepholes is the biggest probelm here. Depending on how the the pan slopes away you shouold be able to correct it with the mud you pitch in the pan. I have had a similar situation when the pan sloped away, and it also was not formed correctly at all, the corners were not even close to sitting flush to the subfloor, but a little persuasion with a mallet and I got it to work, then extended the drain as much as I felt safe with, and proceeded to pitch the pan, I first did a perimiter pitch line all the way arounf the pan in attempt to really pound the mud into the corners with the tamper, and then began skreeding from there and it worked out just fine.