DIY Stainless Steel Shower Room

The old house is in the old city. The self-built brick-concrete structure house and the toilet are also raised on the floor of the original house structure. Dry and wet separation is not achieved. A large amount of accumulated water generated by the shower is directly discharged on the toilet floor.

After more than ten years of use, the bathroom floor has various degrees of subsidence and cracks in the floor tiles. Large drops of water stains and putty have formed on the ceiling below the ceiling. The floor of the room is nearly 20 cm lower than the bathroom. Therefore, the composite floor of the room was all soaked and cracked.

Painting the tile surface with waterproof paint bought online has little effect. Please stop by the so-called "professional waterproof leak-proof" on the side of Chenmu Square for treatment all year round. It has no good effect, and it is not as good as the effect of applying the leak-proof paint a few times.

Since only the elderly still live in the old house, they don't usually have much time to go home, so they are not very considerate to deal with these trivial matters.

In early July, the children returned to their hometown for the summer vacation and have been living upstairs. Of course, the frequency of using the bathroom is much higher than usual. The elderly also reported that the bathroom leaking upstairs is serious. Processing.

With reference to the previous experience in dealing with bathroom leaks, I have consulted a lot of relevant information online.

The first choice is the integral shower room, glass fiber reinforced plastic base + top cover + glass door,

However, it is not appropriate after carefully observing the shape of the bathroom, because the entrance and drain of the bathroom are located in the middle of the bathroom. The installation of the integrated shower room will completely block the entrance door of the bathroom and abandon this solution.

I saw that there is a separate shower base, and you only need to purchase a mobile shower curtain to achieve wet and dry separation.

But after carefully checking the seller's product information and good pictures, I found that the material of the shower base is acrylic, which is a fragile and relatively short-lived material. What's more terrible is that this product is blister-molded, which means that A thin layer like the shell of an edible oil pot has extremely poor load-bearing capacity, and there is a possibility of injury if it is broken. This plan was also rejected.

Combining my own mechanical processing work, and the current processing machinery is all numerical control and intelligent products, with the idea of trying it out, I drew a stainless steel opening and bending diagram, please a few brothers working together in the workshop to help Staff, everyone agrees that this is a feasible plan. Now that everyone thinks it is a feasible solution, I will start drawing.

Here are the tools needed to build a bathroom:

1.Binic AS60T-BF Cut Off Wheel

2.Shower curtain

3.Non-slip mats

Initially selected aluminum alloy plates with small shrinkage coefficients and easy forming,

After consulting the hardware processing manual, it was found that the aluminum alloy is not suitable for laser cutting and CNC bending forming due to its complicated material composition, and it is easy to crack.

Then choose the aluminum-zinc plate commonly used in the workshop, but because this bottom plate must be immersed in bath water for a long time, although the surface of the aluminum-zinc plate has a protective layer, but the corrosion resistance of the long-term soaking water is relatively poor, so it was abandoned .

In the end, a high-cost SUS304 stainless steel plate with a thickness of 1 mm was selected, which is not only corrosion-resistant and easy to process, but also has less variables affected by ambient temperature in daily use. It combines so many advantages and is more expensive.

The initially selected water retaining strip was this square solid foam material. After UG NEX simulation, it was found that this material itself has water absorption properties, and the cross-section size of the monomer is 50mm × 50mm. To form a U-shaped cofferdam, use glue Paste, there are more hidden dangers of water leakage, so I decided to choose another material.

After checking the feasible bathroom renovation cases on the webpage, I learned that there is a silicone water retaining strip that can be formed at one time without splicing, which minimizes the risk of leakage of the finished product. According to the calculation of the perimeter of the stainless steel plate, it is determined to buy a 3 meter long silicone water retaining strip for backup, and at the same time to buy a 3 meter long soft magnetic strip (prepared for self-priming shower curtains), the seller will also send 2 Waterproof silicone, gloves, and utility knife are fairly kind.

The next step is to choose a shower curtain and U-shaped shower curtain track. Because the height from the ground to the ceiling is 2.4 meters, I didn't find a shower curtain that matched this height for a whole night. Then I chose the shower curtain with a height of 2 meters. , The undersize is made up with a colored clothesline.

For the problem that the drainage outlet is 2-3mm higher than the surrounding ground, first determine the installation position and shape with a pencil according to the shape of the stainless steel base, and then squeeze the waterproof silicone to the ground with a silicone gun. Wait for about 1 hour, and the silicone will become dry. And hard abutment (not fully cured).

Then squeeze a thin layer of waterproof glass silicone on the machine, quickly cover the stainless steel plate, level it on the base with the level app that comes with the phone, and try to tilt the periphery towards the drainage port by about 3 °. Too large, it is easy to cause bad foundation of the base and abutment, resulting in empty valleys).

After the base has been cured for 4 hours, the silicone has basically hardened. The next task is to paste the silicone water retaining strip according to the shape of the base. ).

Since the side of the base that is near the wall has a side of 90 ° X50mm, in order to prevent bath water from seeping into the wall, the starting position of the silicone waterproof bar must be coated with more silicone, and the end face of the waterproof bar Be sure to cut the voucher to prevent gaps.

Since the two right angles of this base are processed into arc angles of r200, when you stick to this position, you must slowly adjust the arc of the water strip, and close to the angle of the bottom plate, to prevent the water strip and the bottom plate from being completely attached. Risk of leakage.

After the shaping is completed, apply a layer of waterproof glass glue along the gap between the water retaining strip and the bottom plate (the outside is the water retaining strip and the ground), and then use your fingers to form an arc edge.

The installation of the bottom plate is basically completed. Wait for the waterproof silicone to cure.

Next is the installation of the shower curtain rail and shower curtain at the top. Since the seller has finished sculpting the track according to the drawings I provided, and all the accessories have been sent together, just need to fix the shower curtain track on the plasterboard ceiling with pointed stainless steel screws.

After 48 hours of waiting, the mobile phone's level meter APP was used to measure the level of the bottom plate completely in line with the original idea. The non-slip mats on the floor were ready for use.