need some advice on a new shower tray installation

[rapid]

i have got an old shower cubicle in my en-suite and it's leaking. i want to replace it with a bigger shower tray and a slide shower screen. i have measured from wall to wall (one external wall, one stud wall) it's 1050mm, with those plastic panels install i think it will be about 1030- 1020mm, but ideally those plastic panel should sit on the shower tray. if i go for the 1000mm shower tray it's not wide enough. what should i use to fill this gap? i dont want to bring any walls forward cos on the external wall i have a window and basin. on the internal wall i have my door and chrome towel rad.

if i go for the 1100mm should i just bury that 50mm into the wall??

any ideas?

 

[Barry98]

I think you go down the burying route anything else will look poor and bogged

 

[mountainman]

If you can get the tray into the wall by 25mm at each end then then an 1100 tray would be perfect.

 

[rapid]

If you can get the tray into the wall by 25mm at each end then then an 1100 tray would be perfect.

but the internal wall is a stud wall.

if i bury 25mm each end what should i used to seal the gap before i put the panels on? tile addesive or sand and cement?

 

[barronbathrooms]

Use a tanking kit I prefer mapei, they do a tape to seal the tray to the walls. I would fill gaps with dry wall adhesive first.

 

[mountainman]

but the internal wall is a stud wall.

if i bury 25mm each end what should i used to seal the gap before i put the panels on? tile addesive or sand and cement?

Two layers of plasterboard is 25mm then 12.5mm off studs at each end.
If you do it carefully there won't be much of a gap.
Bed the tray firmly then seal any gaps with whatever does the trick.
Tile down onto the tray, job done.

 

[stevetheplumber]

Be very carefull about burying shower trays into walls make sure you can get a door/screen to fit the gap afterId go for the shorter tray and pack one wall forwards

 

[SimonG]

Be very carefull about burying shower trays into walls make sure you can get a door/screen to fit the gap afterId go for the shorter tray and pack one wall forwards

That's the way I'd be going.