Hi, I'm hoping that someone can give me some advice on this issue:
Just moved into a new place and there is no shower, so will add one to the corner of the bathroom opposite the current bath. At the moment the bath/sink etc feed into a vertical cast iron soil pipe which is boxed in against a wall (its a Glasgow tenement flat, so an unusual arrangement). The bottom of the inlet to this where the bath/sink feed is about 4cm above the level of the floorboards, but hidden by the sink vanity unit.
I am proposing to join the shower waste to where the bath waste goes, so maybe entering it at a height of 6 or 7 cm. I realise that the drain of the shower will need to be higher than this level, so raising the enclosure shouldn't be a problem but here is the issue:
To get the shower waste across to join up with the rest it needs to horizontally cross the room, so will therefore need to be under (or at the very least level) with the floorboards. It will have to travel 1.5m and then have a right angle and travel a further 1m. Lets assume the base of the enclosure is 15cm, and the point it connects to the other drain is 6 cm, that means there is a *TOTAL* fall of 9cm in 2.5 metres = OK! BUT, since the base of the pipe could be 4cm from the top of the boards, it will then have to rise say 10cm right at the end to allow it to exit. Will this:
A) be a problem with draining quickly enough from the shower, since the step up needs to be overcome? I don't want to be standing in an inch of water every morning in the shower.
B) assuming a) isn't a factor, will there be a constant 2.5m of standing water in the pipe between taking showers? Is this a problem? Or will the water be sooked out by the action of entering the soil pipe?
I am trying to get my head around resolving this! I have considered such things as hepvo's and pumps but am not sure if they will be of value. Downstairs have the shower in the same location, so it must be possible
Hopefully my description of the problem isn't too confusing!
Thanks
Just moved into a new place and there is no shower, so will add one to the corner of the bathroom opposite the current bath. At the moment the bath/sink etc feed into a vertical cast iron soil pipe which is boxed in against a wall (its a Glasgow tenement flat, so an unusual arrangement). The bottom of the inlet to this where the bath/sink feed is about 4cm above the level of the floorboards, but hidden by the sink vanity unit.
I am proposing to join the shower waste to where the bath waste goes, so maybe entering it at a height of 6 or 7 cm. I realise that the drain of the shower will need to be higher than this level, so raising the enclosure shouldn't be a problem but here is the issue:
To get the shower waste across to join up with the rest it needs to horizontally cross the room, so will therefore need to be under (or at the very least level) with the floorboards. It will have to travel 1.5m and then have a right angle and travel a further 1m. Lets assume the base of the enclosure is 15cm, and the point it connects to the other drain is 6 cm, that means there is a *TOTAL* fall of 9cm in 2.5 metres = OK! BUT, since the base of the pipe could be 4cm from the top of the boards, it will then have to rise say 10cm right at the end to allow it to exit. Will this:
A) be a problem with draining quickly enough from the shower, since the step up needs to be overcome? I don't want to be standing in an inch of water every morning in the shower.
B) assuming a) isn't a factor, will there be a constant 2.5m of standing water in the pipe between taking showers? Is this a problem? Or will the water be sooked out by the action of entering the soil pipe?
I am trying to get my head around resolving this! I have considered such things as hepvo's and pumps but am not sure if they will be of value. Downstairs have the shower in the same location, so it must be possible
Hopefully my description of the problem isn't too confusing!
Thanks