Make The Bath to Shower Conversion Easier With a Shower Pan Kit
The so-called “modern” bathroom has an interesting history and goes back a long, long way ‘ over five thousand years, in fact.
Surprisingly, hygiene was not the primary purpose of the first baths. Water was seen as a spiritual substance in most ancient cultures, used to “purify” the soul as well as the body. In the ancient city of Mohenjo-Daro, located in what is now Pakistan, homes had:
“some of the most advanced…lavatories, built into the outer walls of houses…the
high quality of the sanitary arrangements could well be envied in many parts of
the world today…the bath was made of brick, sometimes with a surrounding curb
to sit on…wather drained away through a hole in the floor, down chutes or potter
pipes in the walls, into the municipal drainage system.”
- from Lost Discoveries by Richard Teresei, et. al (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002).
Those holes and pipes were generally located along one side of the room, toward which the floor was sloped. This is much different than today’s standard shower base, with its centrally-located, round drain, requiring an awkward, dish-shaped floor and a raised barrier in order to deal with wastewater.
Today’s modern “wet room” shower design has a long channel, or trench drain located along one edge of the shower area. Such a conversion can be done easily with the use of a shower pan kit. By installing the correct shower base kit for your space, it is a simple matter to make one of the least user-friendly spaces in the home into an open, safe and convenient bathing area.
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