Connecting the sewer to the shower
First you need to properly install the pipe to drain the water. To do this, follow the instructions.
Remove all three fragments of the apron. Raise the rear part of the pallet. Place the drain hose on the cab drain elbow at the bottom of the sump and insert the other end of the hose into the drain hole in the bathroom floor. Insert one end of the fiber-reinforced hose into the drain elbow nipple on the side.
Place a building level next to you. Choose a place to install a shower cabin. Position the pallet in the chosen location. Use a level to make sure the tray is in the correct position. To do this, it is necessary to position the level parallel to the horizontal surface. In this case, the floor of the bathroom should be taken as a guideline. If you notice some inaccuracies, then slightly unscrew the nuts of the screws on the legs and correct their position. After the operation, you can tighten the locknuts back. Before installing the pallet, the floor should look something like this:
When installing a pallet, all details must be taken into account. For example, some models of pallets are additionally equipped with legs. With their help, it is convenient to control the slope and height of the bottom.
When installing a shower enclosure, make sure that the angle of the wall is strictly equal to 90 degrees, and that the ceiling does not have any irregularities. Ignoring this advice can lead to serious problems, because due to the loose fit of the parts, the shower can leak.
Additional support will help to stabilize the supporting parts of the plumbing device.
Some Important Shower Cabin Installation Tips
When connecting a shower cabin, try to carefully study the process of work itself. This will help avoid unnecessary mistakes and save time.
Purchase only high-quality plumbing pipes that fit special connections in size. This unwritten rule mainly applies only to budget models of booths, since the attached plumbing of such devices does not shine with quality.
Be sure to check the length of the hoses and make sure they are not damaged. It is better to have a few tens of centimeters of hose in stock.
Try to install an additional waste pump that has magnetic valves. It will prevent accidental flooding.
Seal the gutter carefully
Make sure there are no leaks before final installation.
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Installation of a shower cabin in a private house
If you do not live in an apartment, then you need to know how to install a shower cabin and connect it to the sewer in a private house. Here are some connection tips:
- Installing the shower enclosure itself is relatively simple. It is much more difficult to prepare communications. The problem is that the shower in a private house is installed close to a wall or corner, that is, to two walls. For this reason, there are difficulties with sewer and water pipes. This problem is solved in two ways. Firstly, you can cut the pallet a little at the places where the pipes are laid, however, sometimes a low pallet interferes with this. Secondly, pipes can be laid directly in the wall, but this is only subject to a major overhaul in the bathroom.
- In order to connect the cabin to the sewer system, you need to use a supply with an adapter to the drain pipe. After connecting to the water supply and sewerage, it will be necessary to start it. If a leak is found somewhere, you should once again grease the seams with silicone sealant. wait for it to dry and restart the system.
- It is also necessary to waterproof the floor, especially if it is parquet or plank.
- If you are installing a shower stall in a room that is not suitable for this and do not want each wash to be accompanied by puffs of steam, think about ventilation.
- Another feature of installing a shower cabin in a private country house is the fact that you will need to supply separate communications (water, electricity, sewage) to connect it.
We connect the shower ourselves
Do-it-yourself connection of a shower cabin to the sewer does not contain any special difficulties. For a shower stall, you need to choose a place where there would be a drain directly under the tray itself, into which the drain can be led. To connect the siphon to the drain, it is best to use a flexible corrugation. It must be put on the siphon outlet and inserted into the sewer pipe using silicone sealant.
If the sewer lines are located far from the cabin installation site, then they will need to be extended. For this purpose, you can use plastic pipes with transition elements (tees, bends), they are quickly mounted and practically without the use of tools. So, as you can see, connecting a shower cabin to a sewer is not very difficult.
What you need to connect the cabin
Before you connect the shower cabin to the sewerage and plumbing, you should prepare the necessary materials and tools. Experienced plumbers say that for the successful installation of such equipment, only two things are required - detailed instructions and “straight” hands. More seriously, when connecting the sewerage and water in the shower, you can not do without the following tools:
- Connecting flexible hoses. Typically, corrugated or flexible hoses are used to connect showers, which make installation more convenient and simple. Usually they are included in the delivery of the booth, and if for some reason they are not available, or they do not fit, then you need to purchase hoses of the required diameter and length separately.
Compression fittings. This term refers to the elements by which separate sections of pipes and hoses are connected or separated.
Adjustable wrench, screwdriver, knife. These tools are needed to fix the hoses to the water supply entry point into the apartment.
Fum-tape, sealant, rubber sealant. All of these materials are used to seal where hoses connect to pipes to prevent leaks.
Important! Usually, the piping inside the shower cabin has already been done by the manufacturer, so you only have to connect at 1 point. Often, when installing such plumbing equipment, additional devices are used - pumps or filters.
Filters are necessary for preliminary preparation, purification of water entering the shower. And pumps are installed mainly for models with hydromassage. The connected pump allows you to create the necessary pressure for the hydromassage to function.
