Plumbing Fixtures
Eneption: Special shower compartments for wheelchair use may
eliminate the curb or threshold. The required slope and depth shall bt
maintained from the door entry to the drain opening. The minimum distance
between the door or entry to the drain opening shalt be 1.2 meters.
409.4 All shower compartments, regardless of shape, shall have a minimum
finished interior area of 0.6 square meter, and shall also be capable of
encom,assing a 762 mm diameter circle. The minimum area and
dimensions shall be maintained from a point above the shower drain outlet
to a height of l. 78 meters with no protrusions other than the fixture valve or
valves, shower head and safety grab bars· or rails.
409.5 When the construction of on-site built-up shower receptors is permitted by
the Administrative Authority, one of the following means shaH be
employed:
409.5.1 Shower receptors built directly on the ground:
Shower receptors built directly on the ground shall be watertight and shall
be constnacted from approved-type dense, non-absorbent and non-conosive
materials. Each receptor shall be adequately reinforced, provided with an
approved flanged floor drain designed to make a watertight joint in the floor,
and shall have smooth, impetvious and durable.surfaces.
409.5.2 Shower receptors built above ground:
When shower receptors are built above ground the sub-floor and rough side
of walls to a height of no less than 76 mm above the top of the finished dam
or threshold shall be first lined with sheet lead or copper or with other
durable and watertight materials.
All lining materials shall be pitched at a slope of2 percent or 20 mrnlm to weep holes in
the subdrain of a smooth and solidly formed sub-base. All lining materials shall extend
upward on the rough jambs of the shower opening to a point no less than 76 mrn above
the top of the finished dam or threshold and shall extend outward over the top of the
rough threshold and be turned over and fastened on the outside face of both the rough
threshold and the jambs.
No metallic shower sub-pans or linings may be built-up on the jobsite of not less than
three (3) layers of standard grade 6.8 kg asphah·impregnated roofing telt. The bottom
layer shall be fitted to the formed sub-base and each succeeding layer thoroughly hot
mopped to that below. AH comers shall be carefully fitted, strengthened and wnt,.!rti;Jht
by foJding or lapping, and each corner shall be reinforced with suitable meta! V;ebbing
hot-mopped in place All folds, laps and reinforcing webbing shall extend to at least 101
mm in all directions from the comer and all webbing shall be of approved type and mesh,
producing a tensile strength of not less than 0 9 kg/mm in either direction. Non-metallic
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shower sub-pans or linings may also consist of multi-layers of other approved equivalent
materials suitably reinforced and c.arefully fitted in place on the job~site as elsewhere
requiied in this Section.
Linings shall be properly· recessed and fastened to approved backing so as not to occupy
tbe space required for the wall c.overing and shall not be nailed or perforated at any point
which may be less than 25.4 mm above the finished dam or threshold. An approved type
sutrdrain shall be installed with every shower sub-pan or lining. Each such sub-drain
sb.lll be of the type that sets tlush with the sub-base and shall be equipped with a
damping ring or other device to make a tight connection between the lining and the
drain. The sub-drain shall have weep holes into the waste line.
All shower-lining materials conform to approved standards acceptable to the
Administrative Auth01ity.
409.6 Floors of public shower rooms shall have a non-skid surface and shall be
drained in such a manner that wastewater ftom one bather will not pass over
areas occupied by other bathers. Gutters in public or gang shower rooms
shall have rounded comers for easy cleaning and shaH be sloped not less
than two (2) percent toward the drains. Drains in gutters shall be spaced not
more than 4.9 meters apart .
111}.7 In the absence of local regulations, showers occupancies other than dwelling
units served by individual water heaters shall be provided with individl\al
shower control valves of the pressure balance or the thennostatic mixing
valve type. Multiple or gang showers may be controlled by a master
thermostatic mixing valve in lieu of individually controlJed pressure balance
or thermostatic mixing valves. Limit stops shall be provided on such valves
and shall be adjusted to deliver hot water \v1th a maximum temperature of
48.88 " C.
• Lead and copper sub-pans or linings shall be installedfrom all conducting
substances other than their connecting drain by 6.8 kg asphalt felt or its
equivalent and no lead pan or liner shall be constructed of material
weighing less than 19.6 kglm2. Thickness of copper pans or liners shall be
at ieast Gauge No. l.J B & S (0.5 mm) thick. Jointl· in lead pans or liners
5hall he burned. Joints in copper pans or liners shall be soldered or brazed.
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