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   JohnD1 | Feb 09, 2009 11:58pm | #1

   Saw it all the time in Norway; no shower curtain, door had a curb in it and a waterproof coating on the inside.

   EDIT:  I  even saw several places where the bathtub drained onto the floor, and that led to the floor drain.

   
   

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   Edited 2/9/2009 3:59 pm by JohnD1

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   Link | Feb 10, 2009 12:23am | #2

   I saw this in a bathroom that had a shower big enough for six people.  I liked it a lot but all the bathrooms I build are for apartments and don't have the room.

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   BryanSayer | Feb 10, 2009 02:13am | #3

   I did it. See if you can search on my name and there are pictures. If you don't find them, I'll post again.

   This is a narrow 3rd floor bath. The entire floor is a shower pan done with a mud base. We do have a shower ring installed, plus tile as wainscoting.

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   semipro | Feb 10, 2009 04:44am | #5

   Well Bryan you're a pretty prolific poster.  I did a search on your posts and went through the 1st hundred without luck.  I'm willing to keep searching but can you provide a post title or approximate date? 

   Thanks. 

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   BryanSayer | Feb 11, 2009 06:24pm | #9

   Here (not for dialup). Though this does not really show the part you want to see.Just imagine the entire bathroom floor as a shower pan. I hear it is very common in Europe.

   
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   ponytl | Feb 10, 2009 03:33am | #4

   i just did it in my ADA compliant unit... the whole bathroom drains to the curbless shower... the water closet sits on the only level patch of tile...  i used some tile that had a non-slip surface... we tiled up the walls 80 inches...

   really wasn't all that much added cost... maybe less than $500 total... and thats with grab rails and a fold down seat in the shower

   p

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   Pelipeth | Feb 10, 2009 02:39pm | #6

   You could get great ideas for this by visiting a massage parlor in Okinawa.

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   semipro | Feb 10, 2009 03:04pm | #7

   Any particular one strike your fancy?

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   Pelipeth | Feb 11, 2009 03:47am | #8

   Only passed through on my way to and from Nam, white tiles humongus tubs, and lovely women. Just a memory now, and a fond one at that 66-67.

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   Mongo | Feb 11, 2009 10:23pm | #10

   Referred to as a "wet room."

   No, no reason to "not" do it. You just ned to be able to cope with the required slope of the floor. Easy to do in the framing stage by dropping the joists where required.

   I've used Kerdi on the walls, Kerdi on the shower floor, and Ditra on the floor outside the shower. Use a strip of Kerdi on the Ditra seams for complete waterproofing.

   FHB had an article a while ago. Maybe 2 years ago. By Tom Meehan. Not the greatest article, but it'll get you started.

   Also good to have the plumbing come through the walls instead of the floor, unless you seal the pipes to the membrane. That can be done with Kerdi and Kerdi-Fix.

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   semipro | Feb 12, 2009 03:11am | #11

   Thanks to all for responses, photos, and advice.  I hadn't considered getting all the plumbing up off the floor.  That's a great idea.  I guess there are wall-mounted toilets out there.  I can't wait to incorporate this design into our new master bath though its some years down the road. 

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   barmil | Feb 12, 2009 04:58am | #12

   You might be able to carry this a bit further. As I was leaving Vietnam at the end of the war, I was in a Saigon hotel that had a sloped, tiled floor that directed both pee and shower water into the same drain. Kind of interesting to perform both functions at the same time, but why waste 1.6 gallons at home if you could combine the same functions? I'd bet that some of us do.

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   Mongo | Feb 12, 2009 06:30am | #13

   Welcome home, BARMIL.

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   semipro | Feb 12, 2009 04:08pm | #14

   I'll be the first on to admit the absence of a sloped floor isn't preventing me from saving that 1.6 gal. now.

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   wane | Feb 12, 2009 07:10pm | #15

   check out my "No mud wet room" post ..