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Nancy in Mich

If anyone is interested, here is the Transolid ADA shower, installed in my home. Click on the pics to get them back to full size. Houzz crops them. Roll-in ADA shower floor with a trench drain. There is a regular drain under the square of solid surface material above the center of the trench. There is also a 1/2" dam that directs the water to the center drain. No problems with the pan over flowing yet, but I do have a floor drain in case that happens. See the slightly darker square in the floor tile, about 18" in front of the walnut vanity leg and 18" to the right of the toilet? That is a drain. The entire floor is another shower, sloped with a Kerdi shower product, covered with Kerdi waterproof membrane to about 5" up the wall (behind the baseboards). If my shower overflows (or toilet does or sink leaks or washlet hose develops a hole) my house is not going to flood, because all of those wet things are within the territory of my floor drain. The toilet is shimmed level with plastic shims. My rain shower head is in the center of the shower, so I can move freely under it. The two LED lights I had added keep it bright in there.

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Reply to: If anyone is interested, here is the Transolid ADA shower, installed in my home. Click on the pics to get them back to full size. Houzz crops them. Roll-in ADA shower floor with a trench drain. There is a regular drain under the square of solid surface material above the center of the trench. There is also a 1/2" dam that directs the water to the center drain. No problems with the pan over flowing yet, but I do have a floor drain in case that happens. See the slightly darker square in the floor tile, about 18" in front of the walnut vanity leg and 18" to the right of the toilet? That is a drain. The entire floor is another shower, sloped with a Kerdi shower product, covered with Kerdi waterproof membrane to about 5" up the wall (behind the baseboards). If my shower overflows (or toilet does or sink leaks or washlet hose develops a hole) my house is not going to flood, because all of those wet things are within the territory of my floor drain. The toilet is shimmed level with plastic shims. My rain shower head is in the center of the shower, so I can move freely under it. The two LED lights I had added keep it bright in there.

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Joseph Corlett, LLC

"If I wanted that we could simply do it ourselves. But we don't have the equipment to build it to the specs I really have on my wish list. Fully coved and seamless." All you need is a 3hp router, a core box bit, and a straight cutter. The factory edge on one sheet of solid surface makes a terrific straightedge/fence for cutting the cove "shoe" on another sheet. Rip the coved shoe off the sheet with a circular saw against the sheet fence, rabbet for the shoe with the straight cutter against the sheet fence and you're good to go. This is a piece of Richlite, but you get the idea: Coved countertop or shower base or wall, the construction is the same. The reddish cast across the right side lower corner and across the deck is shadow, not stain or discoloration.

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Reply to: "If I wanted that we could simply do it ourselves. But we don't have the equipment to build it to the specs I really have on my wish list. Fully coved and seamless." All you need is a 3hp router, a core box bit, and a straight cutter. The factory edge on one sheet of solid surface makes a terrific straightedge/fence for cutting the cove "shoe" on another sheet. Rip the coved shoe off the sheet with a circular saw against the sheet fence, rabbet for the shoe with the straight cutter against the sheet fence and you're good to go. This is a piece of Richlite, but you get the idea: Coved countertop or shower base or wall, the construction is the same. The reddish cast across the right side lower corner and across the deck is shadow, not stain or discoloration.

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