Say you had an expensive shower pan built with the concrete bed membrane weephole drain system.
Standing water in shower floor.
Can i wait until he comes back to get it fixed or do i need to get it done asap.
The asterisks would be the water that forms the stopper.
When i am done showering there is still standing water in the shower for a few hours about 3 8 an inch.
But then you take your first shower and discover that there is this dip in the tiles to the side of the drain that is like a 6 inch circle that has standing water that cannot go down the drain.
The drain is functioning fine the water is just lower then the drain.
One would be to redo the floor.
In an empty home or in drains that are infrequently used such as a basement you these traps can eventually dry out from evaporation and let sewer gasses seep in.
The shower floor tile and grout will appear to dry in 24 hours but if your shower was improperly constructed the 1 5 inches or more of deck mud under the shower floor tile will never dry.
The guy i use for home repairs is out of the country for a couple of months.
Demonstration of water not draining properly in new shower.
You can leave the floor level in front of the vanity and slope the floor towards the drain in the shower area.
It has a tile floor for the shower when i am showering water fills about half the shower never leaves the shower area though.
A clogged shower drain could be caused by anything from a small blockage to a major obstruction in your main sewer line.
When these all too common mistakes occur standing water gets trapped in the shower pan below the tile level.
I have standing water in my tiled shower.
The side of my house sank a bit causing the floor to be uneven.
In your case if you aren t going to use the shower for months on end i suppose you could add a drop of bleach to the drain.
A shower floor should definitely have a slope to not only contain the water in the shower area but also to properly drain the water preventing mold stains within the grout.