Show Slow Half Inch Per Foot Show Floor

Shower floor slope to efficiently drain the recommended minimum slope for a shower floor is about 4 percent or a 1 2 inch drop per every 12 inches from the shower walls to the drain.

Show slow half inch per foot show floor. Floors that slope 2 or 3 inches in 20 feet would be a very serious concern. This may seem light but this is 50 pounds over each and every square foot of floor space. Lineman standing on one leg will fall through the floor. Nearly all will say that if a floor slopes 1 and 1 2 inches in twenty feet or more that there should be further investigation.

It does not mean that a 300 lb. Basically they are saying if a floor is sloping over a 1 2 to 1 inch in twenty feet then there is concern. Step 3 measure the furniture you re going to place in the room then draw it to scale on the grid. The dead load on a floor is determined by the materials used in the floor s construction.

For example if the room is 10 feet long and 12 feet wide and each square represents 1 square foot draw a square on grid paper that is 10 squares long and 12 squares wide. A typical wood frame floor covered with carpet or vinyl flooring has a dead load of about 8 pounds per square foot. If there s wall board covered ceiling suspended from the underside of that floor the dead load increases to about 10 pounds per square foot.