Install the shower floor drain correctly

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A walk-in shower with a floor drain is enjoying growing popularity and is also being used more and more frequently in the renovation of old buildings.

A shower with a floor drain requires some preliminary work

With conventional showers, the space is what the shower assumes to be used only for personal hygiene in itself. So when it is not in use, it is 'dead' space that is actually wasted. This will probably be one of the reasons why showers with floor drains are enjoying increasing popularity.

For your plan, you should install a shower with a floor drain in your bathroom, if you can do it yourself want to take in hand, a certain craftsmanship, especially from the tiler area, bring along. It is not just about installing a drainage pipe - you have to ensure the tightness down into the rooms below you.
In the case of a shower without a shower tray, which absorbs the water and then leads it via the drain into the sewer system, this will result Body cleaning used water over the specially processed floor until it reaches the intended drainage facility, the floor drain, meets. There are prefabricated solutions in the form of ready-to-install floor panels, but these also do not have to be incorporated without prior treatment of the floor.
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If you have the skills to carry out this conversion yourself, which must be approved by the landlord, you will have to use the existing floor, the should consist of concrete, impact sound insulation according to the given specifications and then, separated by a separating layer, a suitable screed raise. Note that the slope should be 1%. Before doing this, you should have already laid the actual drain, which in this solution should be an adhesive flange drain, up to the sewer connection. Now apply the bonded seal to a fleece underlay. Don't forget that too walls to be sealed in the lower area.
After you have applied the tile adhesive to the finished surface, you can now choose the one you have chosen Tiles embarrassed. Only use suitable material for your new shower with floor drain, which absolutely guarantees the tightness downwards.