SHOWER TRAY SLOPPING

Slopping Shower Tray.

This is a shower tray we worked on in the village of Otford, which is near Sevenoaks in Kent.

The tray had been fitted quite recently and had seemed to be fine to begin with. However, the middle part of the tray had started to bow up, preventing the water from draining at the far end of the shower tray.

As the tray had already been set in place and tiled around, replacing it presented some difficulties. And also a considerable expense.

We were asked by the owner if we could build up the area where the water sat so that it would drain.

The work was more that could be done in a day as the plan was to use fibreglass to build up the low area and then resurface the whole lot. But the fibreglass needed time to dry and there would be quite a lot of work in getting the whole lot smoothed down enough so the fibreglass blended seamlessly with the existing surface.

The first part of the job involved mapping out on the shower tray where the water was sitting and not draining. Here is a picture.

Then fibreglass was applied, dried and sanded so that it was smooth but also had a fall on it.

As the water that didn’t drain was over a centimetre deep in places, this meant that the shower tray ended up being built up higher than the existing top edge of the tray, so towards the back of the shower the shoulders disappear.

After this had all been dried and smoothed, the area was primed and then the whole thing was resurfaced. Then I went back once this had dried and gave it the “Rolls-Royce” treatment and sanded and polished the shower tray to a lovely smooth finish.