Installing Bathroom Floor Drain

In this type of installation the bathroom floor should also slope towards the shower to contain overflow.

Installing bathroom floor drain.

Near the drain the mortar should rise to just below the drain assembly. You must slope the drainpipe at 1 8 to 1 4 inch drop per foot. At the outside edges or the room be sure to build the mortar up to the lines you have marked on the walls. You simply slip a nut onto the waste drain and press it against the other pipe then hand tighten the nut.

This is the same problem as putting a floor drain under a washing machine. Drain and vent lines must be positioned precisely so you should install them before the supply pipes. It might be possible to simplify supply runs by moving a vent pipe over a few inches. In this episode of repair and replace stephany shows how to replace a drain in a bathroom sink does your sink have a pop up drain.

You ll note one of them is much too loose but the other one fits just right. Place a slip joint nut on the pipe first followed by the washer. Pour the rough floor slab flush with the top of the drain body. First he measures the lengths.

Spread the mortar with a hand trowel across the surface of the floor starting at the outside edges of the room and working toward the drain. No washers are required here. 2 neo loc body shown for reference note. Next a mark is drawn.

If you can t let it drain to daylight then you have to dump it into your sanitary drainage system and you have sewer gas so you have to install a trap and it has to be vented and the trap has to stay wet or it will dry out from evaporation and then the trap doesn t work and you have sewer gas in your bathroom. All plastic bodies to be solvent welded to pipe 3. Install drain body on pipe and pressure test connection per local code requirements. A less common way to position the linear drains is to place one channel on either side of the shower floor sloping in two directions so that there is a slight rise in the centre of the shower.

The snam tile has plastic tabs that interlock. If you must run drainpipes across a floor carefully calculate the amount of vertical space available. Then he takes the tiles outside to be able to use the saw to cut lengths.