Advice about an apparently dodgy shower tray...

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Hi all,

I bought a 800mm2 quadrant shower tray about four years ago and installed it. Had a real hard time getting it to seal along the edge of the shower screen. A local bathroom fitter came around and - after sticking a spirit level along the edges - advised that I had installed it unstraight and it needed ripping out and doing again.

Anyway, roll the clock forwards a while and - ignoring the obvious leaking problems which have now been sorted - the shower tray is back out and the floor being prepared again.

The floor itself is very unstraight, so this I decided to prepare some wooden joists and after much levelling, achieved a nice flat 800mm2 surface covered in ply (previously I bedded the tray directly to a sand/cement mix which I thouht would be OK). After, I put the tray onto the surface, and all of the edges are unstraight! So I took a look at the tray itself and it appears to be unstraight, which might very well explain why I've had so many issues in fitting it.

See attached photo below - it seems that the front edge (the part you step over to get into the shower) is drooping by a few mm - this should be apparent on the right-hand-side of the photo.


Anyway here's my question - should my shower tray be unstraight like this? Or should all top edges be the same height from the ground? Should I give up on this tray and go and buy a new one instead?

Thanks in advance!
 
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