Shower screen install keeping me up at night

[danger005]

Another question that has been keeping me up all night....
I am going to construct a hobless shower recess approx 1100mm wide and am about to slope the floor to shower drain. Starting at the far end of the shower, the floor will be flat for approx 450mm (1 tile width- they are pretty big tiles) then slope 1:60 down to the grate drain which runs along the wall under the shower. Outside the shower area I want maintain an almost flat floor at the same level as the far end of the shower.... I hope this is making sense....

So my dilemma is how should I install a fixed shower screen panel to the sloping floor of the shower which is next the flat floor in the rest of the bathroom?. If I sit the screen on the flat floor, you will be able to see the tile edge where the shower floor is sloping down. And if I try to install it into the slope ie. starting flush with floor level at the shower end and positioning it into the floor as it slopes up, you will see the tile ends on the flat section of floor.

If anyone is able to understand my description, I'd appreciate any help.

[mic-d]

I can't quite be sure I understand what you mean, but I'll have a go. I think you mean by "the far end" of the shower, the side opposite the shower rose? So you will have a flat section in the shower 450 wide (why?) and the floor will slope down to a grate along the wall under the shower rose giving a gradually tapering ledge where the main bathroom floor drops into the shower floor? How am I doing? Your concern is how it will look with the screen positioned along the flat part of the ledge or along the sloping floor?
If you use a 40mm or 50mm aluminium angle along the boundary of the shower (and waterproof this in to isolate the shower from the main bathroom mortar floor) and lay the mortar floor up to the top of this, when you come to lay the tiles up to this edge and down into the shower you can either mitre them so you don't see an edge or use an aluminium tile edge to protect and disguise the edge of the tile. Then sit the shower screen onto the flat section, right on the edge. Much easier than having to measure the taper and order a screenwith a tapered bottom to match the sloping floor.

Cheers
Michael

[silentC]

Best way is to put a bit of aluminium angle in to form the external sides of your shower. You lay the tiles in that so that you have fall to the waste as you describe. The tiles on the outside of the shower butt up to the angle and they are level. The shower screen sits on the level side above the angle and the floor of the shower falls away, leaving the angle slightly exposed at the deep end.

Don't you have a floor waste in your bathroom as well? I would want a bit of fall into that too.

[danger005]

I knew that may be a bit confusing, but it's a hard one to explain. Well done though, you got the jist of it.

I thought the aluminium strip idea would be the way to go but I didn't want it to stick up above tile level at the deep end (the shower rose end).

Also, another thought, if I waterproof up and over the alum angle, you would see the waterproof membrane at the surface (above the tile) wouldn't you? This wouldn't look so good consdiering I'm using a white membrane. I'd prefer to somehow see the aluminium instead.

Cheers

[mic-d]

another thought, if I waterproof up and over the alum angle, you would see the waterproof membrane at the surface (above the tile) wouldn't you? This wouldn't look so good consdiering I'm using a white membrane. I'd prefer to somehow see the aluminium instead.


Cheers

I'd tile the vertical lip too, either run it up under a small alum angle or mitre the tiles as I suggested. I suppose after you w/p you could also sikaflex a section of alum bar inside the w/p angle and make it finish at the same height as the outside tiles, which would butt up to it. This would give you the alum look.

Cheers
Michael

[danger005]

Thanks for your help...all good ideas
After speaking to the glass shop, they suggested the easiest way is to measure the two vertical heights of the screen ie. wall end and other end with the top of the screen as true horizontal and they will cut the screen with an angle at the bottom to allow for the floor slope. A couple of brackets that attach the screen to the floor and wall, a bit of silicone along the base and it's all good! I think I'll give that a go.

Cheers