Shower Drains

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Author Message Jerome J. Lazar, RA, CCS, CSI, SCIP Senior Member Username: lazarcitec Post Number: 1227 Registered: 05-2003 Posted on Tuesday, January 06, 2015 - 02:03 pm:    Where do you specify the visible portion of the shower drain assembly? Or any finished drain at a pool deck or terrace for example? I have always left it up to the MEP, are my peers in agreement with this practice? Lets say you need to specify a linear drain, I would normally leave it up to the MEP to specify it after coordinating the product selection, is this best? Nathan Woods, CSI, CCCA, LEED AP Senior Member Username: nwoods Post Number: 620 Registered: 08-2005 Posted on Tuesday, January 06, 2015 - 02:19 pm:    Usually goes on the fixture schedule in the plumbing drawings, with some generic content about "providing full assemblies and such from mfr's from the following list, etc..." in the plumbing spec Steven Bruneel, AIA, CSI-CDT, LEED-AP, EDAC Senior Member Username: redseca2 Post Number: 461 Registered: 12-2006 Posted on Tuesday, January 06, 2015 - 03:33 pm:    Narrow sight line slot drains for showers are very popular right now. About 6 years ago, when we first incorporated them into a hospital project, our M_P consulting engineer was so reluctant to include them in their specs (didn't want to go beyond their master) that I ended up having to write a stand alone Section. I essentially took their fixture spec, renumbered my Section to follow right after theirs, stripped out their Part 2 products and Part 3 irrelevant stuff, and inserted my only product, the slot drain, along with the unique Part 3 pieces. John Bunzick, CCS, CCCA, LEED AP Senior Member Username: bunzick Post Number: 1612 Registered: 03-2002 Posted on Tuesday, January 06, 2015 - 04:18 pm:    In the plumbing schedule. If the architect desires a particular look, there should not be a problem asking the plumbing engineer to use a particular drain grating (where there are options for them) or a particular product. J. Peter Jordan Senior Member Username: jpjordan Post Number: 792 Registered: 05-2004 Posted on Tuesday, January 06, 2015 - 04:21 pm:    I try to get anything that is required to be "plumbed" (connected to a faucet or drain) specified by the MEP even if it is only on a schedule on the Drawings. Approval of this stuff depends on the plumbing AHJ, and I don't want to "hide" it in some architectural section. Shower bases are especially problematic since they might be a plastic composite or terrazzo items, but I want to make sure that the plumber knows he has to deal with it at some point.