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Kathy (ND)
We would like to install a shower with a wider base in our basement bathroom. The shower has concrete walls on 2 sides. The drain pipe comes out of the cement floor and a new, wider shower base means that the drains won't line up.
Is there a flexible plumbing fitting that will help solve this mis-alignment?
Do we need to build a platform to make the shower higher to accommodate available elbows?
Thanks!
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North Carolina Plumber (NC)
It depends on how much the new drain will be off. I usually just open up the floor and move the trap so that the inlet lines up directly under the new drain. If you only need to move over a couple inches a couple of st.45's might work, depending on the depth of the standpipe out of the trap. An inch or so can be gained by using an offset shower drain. Just be sure not to have any horizontal piping before it goes into the trap. The piping out of the trap to the drain must be vertical, a 45 degree counts as vertical as far as code goes.
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packy (MA)
how much difference are you talking about?
you can probaly break out some cement and offset the riser from the trap below.
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Kathy (ND)
Actually, my husband thinks he'll be able to get it to work, The drain pipe is flush w the floor and there's about a 6-inch gap around it, filled w gravel. It's pvc and does have some wiggle since it looks like its about 14 inches down to the trap. The drain on the shower base is already offset, so we have to accommodate 1.5 inches right now.
Thank you for your help.
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North Carolina Plumber (NC)
14" depth will be more than enough to install a couple of 45's to get back inline with the new shower drain.
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