How to Frame and Plumb a Basement Bathroom

How to Frame and Plumb a Basement Bathroom. Watch this quick video and become familiar with building a basement bathroom with a shower installation.

Learn a few framing and plumbing secrets that professional basement finishers use every day in their clients basement Bathroom projects!

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[Lee Fisher]

What brand of shower?

Does the pan come with the panels?

[BasementFinishingMan]

Hello Lee! The brand is Kohler. The Model is a the Sterling 5'-0" unit in Bisque (color). Thanks for checking out our basement finishing videos!

Eddie

[Tim Hanson]

I was wondering did you break up the concrete first than did the framing of the basemen? I'm assuming you did

[BasementFinishingMan]

Yes we left out the walls when we framed that bordered the bathroom sewage ejector so we could jackhammer the floor unobstructed. After we jacked the bathroom floor and dug the sewage ejector pit, we then built the remaining walls to the bathroom.

[Claude Taylor]

Great job

[BasementFinishingMan]

Thanks Claude appreciate the positive comment!

Eddie!

[BasementFinishingMan]

We did the concrete from the backside of the shower in the adjoining room.

Normally we would do the concrete before we set the shower pan, but for filming purposes, we did the concrete after the fact. But we did concrete the hole in the floor shut!

[Howie. Swerdfe]

how do you manage that? the shower is in and their is not concrete under it.

[BasementFinishingMan]

No, actually we concrete this closed so the concrete slab remains sealed so we can keep the radon system as air-tight possible. The concrete also supports the base of the shower pan so it does run the risk of cracking.

[exo teric]

so you just leave the basement floor dug up under the shower base?