On 2014-05-30, dadiOH wrote:
"Mike" wrote in message
Besies not doing this, any thoughts on building a wooden shower
pan? I have a small cabin that has space at a premium. My bathroom
has enough room for a 24"x24" shower pan. My idea is to build a pan
out of plywood and 1"x4" sides. Once the pan is built paint the
wood. When the pan is in place bore a hole through the pan, through
the sub floor, between the joists of the raised floor. The waste,
gray water would drain through a hole cut in the wall.

This pan is only for collecting the water and will not be submerged.
The water, once collected, should drain quickly out of the cabin.
This pan is inside my cabin and not outside exposed to heat, weather,
etc.

I did something similar on my sailboat years ago...shower drained into a pan
in the bilge, pan was pumped dry by flipping a switch while drying myself.
I had the pan fabricated from sheet copper.

My questions include:
- What to use as paint so the wood becomes water proof?

None. If you want the wood to stand up, paint it with thin epoxy. There is
one named Gluvit made for the purpose. I made a plywood water tank for the
same boat...about 100 gallon, inside coated with Gluvit, used it for 10+
years, still good when I sold the boat.
http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&key...l_85jl6dkneq_b

- Should I abandon this project and buy a 32"x32" pan?

I thought you only had a 24 x 24 space.




In my 12'x16' cabin I built a "bathroom" that is 58"x59". I can go
to 32"x32", but I hate to spend the space for something that seems
to only have a single function. I'll look for the Gluvit. Thanks.

Eventually I want to harvest the rain, build a porch, raised plant
beds, solar panels, batch solar water heating, etc.

Mike