Hello, I am re-tiling my shower floor and am having a difficult time finding a strainer for my shower drain. All of the metal in the bathroom is nickel so that is the colour I am looking for. The spacing between the screw holes is 2-5/8" and I have only managed to find one strainer that has those center to center dimensions. It is a 4-1/4" diameter round strainer. Because I am tiling I was really hoping to use a square strainer which will make the cuts in the tile much simpler but the only square strainer I can find has a 2-7/8" center to center screw holes. One option I was considering was rather than placing the strainer in place and then tiling around it showing the exposed edge like in most installations I was thinking of tiling around the pipe and then placing the strainer over top of the tile. This would hide the exposed edge of the tile and the cuts would not be so important, much like the escutcheons hide the holes in the tile where the shower head comes through. I would then use a little silicone around the outer edge of the strainer to prevent a ridge. I suppose the downside to this plan is that the drain would not be the absolute low spot on the shower floor and you would be left with a small puddle of water in the shower until it evaporated. Perhaps this is why you never see that done I was wondering if anybody has any opinions or any suggestions of a product I could look into for my application.
thank you,
-jeff
thank you,
-jeff