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Sandbags in the shower
wrote:
The Australian plumber who installed the shower in my wet room
presumably believed that, because water flows down a plughole in an
anticlockwise direction in the southern hemisphere - the opposite to
ours - that it also flowed uphill in the north (just kidding), with the
result that the shower drain is higher than the surrounding floor, with
the inevitable consequences.
As wheelchair access is needed, nothing permanent can be added to
prevent this, so I made a sand filled bicycle innertube *sausage* to
try to overcome the problem but, as the floor is a dimpled, non slip
surface, it didn't do the job adequately.
Anyone got any suggestions for improvement? The impervious rubber outer
of the tube is, I suspect, key, but I can think of nothing, non rotting
and non smelling, that will cover the tube, expand, and fill those
gaps.
Tony.
Is this a wetroom? Whats the floor made of? If its a cement screed, and
the slope is only slight, levelling compound would make it level, which
sounds like it would be a real improvement. That way only a flim of
water would be left on the floor, which hopefully is easy to sweep most
of down the drain leaving just droplets. The plus of levelling compound
is its very easy to apply, and I got the impression thats what you'd
like. Youre not really giving enough info to work on though.
NT
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