Pig heavy shower tray

[Pocster]

Found a thread on this already , mentioning ice cubes and battons 

My tray weighs an impressive 72kg .

As I’m always on my own ( pre self isolate - I set the trend ) ; this won’t be much fun .

Want to recess tray into floor .

So once wall boarded with marine ply and tile backer board on ; need a nice method to get tray in and out of corner .

Battens sound best . But tray won’t be easily liftable once in situ .
Was thinking of some kind of hoist ...

 

[Onoff]

Some cheap ratchet straps maybe, 3 or 4 to lift with? Put on loosely.

 

 

Cut off and leave in there on final positioning? Careful of the ratchet mechanisms chipping the tray.

 

https://www.screwfix.com/p/ratchet-tie-down-straps-5m-x-25mm-2-pack/24567#product_additional_details_container

[PeterW]

Two lengths of waste pipe and roll it 

[Onoff]

1 minute ago, PeterW said:

Two lengths of waste pipe and roll it 

 

I thought it dropped into a recess for some reason?

[Temp]

Battens worked for me but I wasn't putting the tray in a recess. I think straps might be the way to go as @Onoff suggested. Would an engine hoist work? 

[Pocster]

1 hour ago, Onoff said:

 

I thought it dropped into a recess for some reason?

Yeah I need to ‘drop’ it in somehow . Well , not “drop” lol but “ place “ .....

[Pocster]

2 minutes ago, Temp said:

Battens worked for me but I wasn't putting the tray in a recess. I think straps might be the way to go as @Onoff suggested. Would an engine hoist work? 

That’s the type of hoist setup I was maybe thinking of .... 

But I think the hoists ‘legs’ might get in the way .

Edited March 15, 2020 by pocster

[Russell griffiths]

£10 on e bay. Glass suckers. (See my advert) hook in ceiling then some type of small block n tackle

3-1 ratio will work and not cost much. 

Edited March 15, 2020 by Russell griffiths

[ianfish]

Bang it in then board around it....

 

It what I've just found in reverse.

 

 

[Oz07]

Glass suckers, 2 of. Cheap enough on amazon

[Pocster]

3 hours ago, Oz07 said:

Glass suckers, 2 of. Cheap enough on amazon

Got some . Suckers and glass ....

 

Edited June 1, 2020 by pocster

[CC45]

straps around it, 2 people, lay on adhesive & either pull straps out or cut off.

[Pocster]

Not on this yet - but thinking ....

I could stick a hole in the beam and block and use a bottle jack to lift/ lower it .

Only issues are the height the jack could go and some method to support the whole tray - stop it falling off the jack . Is it ok for a tray to be ‘jacked’ at one point ? ??

[Ferdinand]

This one?

 

My tactic was to buy a tray that weighed half that...

Edited August 10, 2020 by Ferdinand

[Pocster]

58 minutes ago, Ferdinand said:

This one?

 

My tactic was to buy a tray that weighed half that...

The best solution is a lite tray .

 

I reckon props / jacks from beneath is the man solution ?

[joe90]

1 hour ago, pocster said:

I reckon props / jacks from beneath is the man solution ?

Says the man who already bought a heavy tray!

[PeterW]

3 hours ago, pocster said:

. Is it ok for a tray to be ‘jacked’ at one point ? ??

No you will snap it or punch a hole in it. 

[Nickfromwales]

He's screwed....lets just delete the thread and pretend he never asked  

[Nickfromwales]

OK.

So, in this instance what you do is make nice pyramids of quite stodgy tile adhesive ( slow set !! ) and have then about 50mm higer than you need the tray to be. Then you slide the tray out on battens, or lower it from the front onto short battens near you ( there so you don't lose your fingertips when the heavy slippy tray gets the better of you ) and just let the adhesive squish out as you rubber mallet the thing into the position you want. Lots and lots of small taps, and never in the same spot more than twice, and gravity will go from your enemy to your friend as the tray heads south to its final resting place.

Sort the waste out after its gone off, and plug the missing block with expanding foam. Then you just mix 2-part self leveller and pour it into the void around the blobs of tile adhesive under the tray and let it fill up as much as you can underneath.

What could be easier?!? 

[Onoff]

...could have avoided all this agg if you'd have just cast the floor to falls...

 

?

[Nickfromwales]

9 minutes ago, Onoff said:

...could have avoided all this agg if you'd have just cast the floor to falls...

 

?

Apparently there's a company in Kent now offering speedy turnkey wetroom installations......................................................

[Onoff]

26 minutes ago, Nickfromwales said:

Apparently there's a company in Kent now offering speedy turnkey wetroom installations......................................................

 

Fu all, I'm going for a shower!

[Bitpipe]

Surely if there was an opportunity to re-use walk on glass, this was it...

 

[Nickfromwales]

16 minutes ago, Bitpipe said:

Surely if there was an opportunity to re-use walk on glass, this was it...

 

......new thread alert.......

"How to drill waste holes in walk on glazing panels".

[Pocster]

On 15/03/2020 at 20:35, Russell griffiths said:

£10 on e bay. Glass suckers. (See my advert) hook in ceiling then some type of small block n tackle

3-1 ratio will work and not cost much. 

I've got some glass suckers and I certainly don't trust them to hold for any length of time.....