JCH
Member
I'm redoing a bathroom and replacing a clawfoot tub with a shower.
My designer has spec'd a 36" W x 50" L shower area along one wall with a 1-foot neo-angle corner.
However, the floor joist runs lengthwise under the proposed shower area at 18" from the wall (right where I would want to put the drain).
How do you normally deal with this sort of problem?
- mount the drain off-center? (say, 20" from the one side wall and 16" from the other)
- make the shower area skinnier so that the mid-point no longer falls on the joist?
- move the shower area out from the wall a bit (say with an extra 2x4 ledge along the long wall) so that the newly-centered drain now misses the joist?
- something else??
I was hoping to use a Schluter kit for the base, but any non-standard drain placement is going to make that impossible.
Advice?
Thanks!
.../john
My designer has spec'd a 36" W x 50" L shower area along one wall with a 1-foot neo-angle corner.
However, the floor joist runs lengthwise under the proposed shower area at 18" from the wall (right where I would want to put the drain).
How do you normally deal with this sort of problem?
- mount the drain off-center? (say, 20" from the one side wall and 16" from the other)
- make the shower area skinnier so that the mid-point no longer falls on the joist?
- move the shower area out from the wall a bit (say with an extra 2x4 ledge along the long wall) so that the newly-centered drain now misses the joist?
- something else??
I was hoping to use a Schluter kit for the base, but any non-standard drain placement is going to make that impossible.
Advice?
Thanks!
.../john