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Jay Gerlick
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 10:41 pm: | |
OK short and sweet. 81 MCI 9 side isle so the shower is in the middle of the bus for headroom. If I square everything from the floor, makes the walls of my shower easy, and doors. Question, has anybody had a problem with the shower not draining all the way because the slope in the floor? |
captain ron (Captain_ron)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 10:52 pm: | |
You'll have water stand towards the front of the bus. do not square the walls off of the floor. if you left your cieling in square off of it for front to back squaring for side to side walls you can go off of floor. I leveled my shower floor. there is a post further down in the board (tips on leveling and squaring walls in MCI) |
John MC9
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 12:10 am: | |
Uhmm..
"shower is in the middle of the bus "
The drain is where? When you plan all this out, be sure to
look underneath and inside the bays. Make sure your
plumbing won't be outside a bay, between the bays, or
through some major support structure.
Take time to plan. It saves time in the long run. |
FAST FRED
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 5:42 am: | |
If you level the shower pan the water will flow to the center.
I refuse to have plumbing freezing in the bay , so "my way" was to cut open the center of the shower drain and 3M 5200 a SS doggie bowl in place.
A tiny $12 Rule bilge pump lifts the shower water into the nearby toilet sink , where it drains by gravity into the holding tank.
Advantage , to winterize the antifreez poured in the shower goes thru the J trap of the sink , winterizing it at the same time.
KISS,,, does it every time,
FAST FRED |
JR
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 10:53 pm: | |
An MC9 floor slopes downward toward the front. Don't square anything with the floor. Use the bottom of the windows to establish "square"...
or as all the above good advice indicated, use a level. You'll have to have a supporting wall anyway. Just plumb the wall up to the windows, and fit the shower base to the floor when square to the wall...careful and don't drop the drain thru the center of the bus. The drain should be located through the plywood floor into a bay, not the mechanical center duct, or walls...or anything else. Lay out the bath carefully...especially the pottie and shower. Keep in mind that if the bus isn't "leveled", a level ain't much use. |
David Dulmage (Daved)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, February 24, 2006 - 8:39 am: | |
Don't use a level, unless you have means to block the bus so that your reference plane (e.g. the edge of the windows) is level and remains level while you do the construction. The top of the windows can be used as an easy reference to square everything to. In the bath, you can make the shower pan level by shimming the edge that is facing to the front of the bus. You The slope of the floor is pretty modest, so for a 32" shower you won't need very much to make it level.
DaveD
MC-8 |