whole bathroom shower basin?

forresth

I need to completely redo the bathroom, and want to do a much bigger shower there is room for it) There are no pre-made shower basins in the size I want, so it will involve a custom made one either way. It occurred to me that I could just do the entire floor as a shower basin and just hang a curtain to separate it off from the rest of the bathroom. Since the entire floor needs to be redone anyways, I think this would end up being easier over all.

Anyone ever try something like this?

Any other thoughts?

jimmy21

just make sure you do plenty of research on tile showers. Use a membrane like kerdi and waterproof the heck out of it

oh'mike

Is this over a slab or a wood framed floor?

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If this is a framed floor, you'll need to make some tricky framing modifications to get proper slope to drain. And the slope needs to cover a wide area since you won't have a curb to contain the water. You also need to consider how to keep other things in the bathroom level, such as the toilet and vanity.

oh'mike

If money is not a big problem consider a slot (channel) drain---These will allow the shower to be pitched from the back to the door---and the slot drain---

Go to Contractor talk and look in the tiling section---Contractor Talk - Professional Construction and Remodeling Forum

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forresth

the bathroom is over a basement. there are a couple of layers of subfloor and a couple of layers of flooring. I figure If I rip it all out, I'd have enough height to work with to keep any threshold pretty low. Keeping the slope lower on the non-shower portion should also help with that too.

The toilet is pretty near the door if I keep all the current placement. for the vanity, I was thinking a porcelain pedestal sink or a wall hung sink.

Michael Thomas

What you are proposing, basically, is a "low-threshold handicap accessible shower", and googling that will find you a number of manufacturers of ADA compliant shower bases and complete shower enclosure kits.

There is no reason of course where you can custom build a tile shower of the same general design, but to do it right is going to be an expensive project, and if it's done wrong and your room-sized "shower base" leaks, you may find that you are tearing the whole thing out to fix it!

So you might want to consider the possibility of using a pre-manufactured base, and devoting any excess bathroom square footage to storage.

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forresth

As I stated in the OP, all the premade bases I found were smaller than I want, so its going to be a custom job either way.

phlip

Hey see some bathroom basins here. Very beautiful and inspirational!