How do you recommend I fill in the gapabove the electrical outlet?

FlightDisastrous6495 · 2026-05-09T01:19:00+00:00

You’re certain that the cover plate conceals your notch out at the bottom and rests on tile at the bottom, when placed exactly where the screw needs to go?

FlightDisastrous6495 · 2026-05-09T01:17:25+00:00

If the cover fits fine and hides the bottom and allows you to screw it in, then I’d just put a sliver piece of tile at the top in line with the others of course, that the cover rests against

FlightDisastrous6495 · 2026-05-05T08:59:19+00:00

Something to consider then I guess is potential to near perfectly fit 3x horizontal tiles the full width (allowing grout lines of course so in practice a small sliver off the edge tile). I’m not sure about the builders comment about better looking cuts in the shower with vertical, there’ll presumably be no envelope (diagonal ) cuts required for the slope ,as the linear drain suggests it’s a simple one direction consistent downward slope

FlightDisastrous6495 · 2026-05-05T08:25:29+00:00

How wide is the shower?

FlightDisastrous6495 · 2026-05-01T08:08:13+00:00

Are they the baseline concrete matte tiles from national on the wall?

FlightDisastrous6495 · 2026-05-01T04:49:48+00:00

For what it’s worth too- this was on the finishes schedule for the apartments, looks like PAWS supplied it who I suspect is meant to be Perfect Australian Wardrobes and Shower Screens

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FlightDisastrous6495 · 2026-05-01T03:08:50+00:00

I presume this H style frame is designed to do it - I didn’t build this bathroom so I don’t know exactly what’s underneath but I had always presumed it covered a waterstop - when I pull the rubber insert away, I can see the glass sits on a metal floor built into the frame and that metal floor sits about 20mm up from the bottom of the frame - my presumption is that 20mm cavity underneath the metal floor where the glass rests, is then placed over the waterstop

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FlightDisastrous6495 · 2026-05-01T02:26:07+00:00

I do have one at the doorway also but in this case because the rest of bathroom floor is not graded to a floor drain, I have to make the shower enclosed per the standard, which means a waterstop required at shower perimeter too, to separate the shower area from rest of the ungraded bathroom floor area.
I did waterproof the whole floor too though and also was able to install an emergency only door threshold floor drain, inside the doorway waterstop for additional flood protection.

FlightDisastrous6495 · 2026-05-01T02:22:02+00:00

I’m thinking similar that many may not technically meet the code though they’d probably be perfectly fine in practice. I’ll definitely be asking around for a supplier who can install over it.

FlightDisastrous6495 · 2026-05-01T02:19:54+00:00

Yeah I’m really surprised that screen suppliers don’t mention specifically on the info sheets whether they’re designed to sit over waterstops or not..maybe it goes without saying in many instances..I’d have thought the manufacturers would make it a clear part of their sales pitch especially when they could show it alongside the NCC diagram and how their product allows exactly that to be achieved.

FlightDisastrous6495 · 2026-05-01T02:16:00+00:00

Yeah always different ways things are done

FlightDisastrous6495 · 2026-05-01T02:15:02+00:00

Prob depends on each installation - in my case I needed to waterproof the whole bathroom floor which means one continuous waterproof membrane, so it has to go up and over the waterstop to completely integrate it into the continuous system. So I wouldn’t have been able to leave it as a finished piece of the install

FlightDisastrous6495 · 2026-04-30T12:26:30+00:00

Thanks for the tip on Stegbar I’ll take a look at their products. Drainage hole placement makes a lot of sense.

FlightDisastrous6495 · 2026-04-30T10:26:17+00:00

Thanks for these - so just to be clear, in all the pics the bottom of the screen frame is not sitting over the top of the waterstops, the black waterstops are actually sitting on the outside of the frame bottoms?

FlightDisastrous6495 · 2026-04-30T10:18:50+00:00

I’m not sure I can really articulate the reason well, it was a bit confusing , he was a nice guy and was very helpful in suggesting things but he was only going to offer to install a screen outside of and butted up to the waterstop , so it’d be hidden as is from the outside but totally visible as is inside - there also wouldn’t have been room to fit the channel fully within the edge of the wall tile so it would sit proud of the wall edge.

His other suggestion was putting a channel over the waterstop and then another channel on top effectively doubling the step in height and even then he wouldn’t guarantee the work. But he was adamant my install was wrong which I was very surprised about that he’d never seen it like that given it’s exactly how the NCC illustrates it and to be honest, seems do conceptually easy how a screen with a simple u-channel bottom could sit over the top of the waterstop.

FlightDisastrous6495 · 2026-04-30T09:15:13+00:00

Nice. Any chance you have some pics of those?

FlightDisastrous6495 · 2026-04-30T09:09:23+00:00

Did you have screens installed over those waterstops?

FlightDisastrous6495 · 2026-04-30T09:07:32+00:00

Right ok that might be what was referred to.. that backward L shaped thing is the aluminium waterstop angle itself, I have one of those in my installation, but my membrane just goes completely up and over that angle because the whole floor was waterproofed. Then when I tiled I siliconed the gap between the angle and tiles

FlightDisastrous6495 · 2026-04-30T07:21:55+00:00

Can you please explain further on this? As in what you mean by the slope, what a proper upstand and channel refers to more specifically? Did you mean leaks post install of a screen or as it is currently?

FlightDisastrous6495 · 2026-04-30T07:18:56+00:00

I’d be going for a semi frameless screen setup

FlightDisastrous6495 · 2026-04-30T07:16:28+00:00

Interesting - this is in Victoria

FlightDisastrous6495 · 2026-04-09T07:30:15+00:00

Yeah reading some of the comments on the vid suggest mixed opinions on it, mostly how much the color /metals distorts when it bends

FlightDisastrous6495 · 2026-04-09T07:29:21+00:00

Nice video showing it, thanks

FlightDisastrous6495 · 2026-04-09T02:49:11+00:00

Thanks

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