How to get shower tray into recess?

[david mccullough]

if the tray is 25mm smaller then fit it tight to one side, then get moisture resistant plasterboard and dot & dab it to the opposite wall, also fit the sealer strip to the tray and tank the walls.

 

[Jonathanb]

Just fit it like this one I have just pulled out 😀

 

[David Marshall]

I had the same query last April (2018). I wanted to put a 90x90cm ceramic base into a newly made (green plaster board) cabinet. I made sure the cabinet was exactly the size of the ceramic tray. In my case the tray needed to be 14cm off the floor.

A friend is a Paris-Dakar rally competitor with some neat kit. So I borrowed his hydraulic jack (13cm deep) fitted four of the ajustable legs into the cabinet area, set the height, then gently rolled the jack, carrying the ceramic base, into the cabinet. Checked the position and released the air gently lowering the ceramic tray onto the legs... perfect... I'm amazed at how smoothly and easily the whole operation went...🙂

 

[charliesw4]

Put the tray in tight against the squarest corner and pack the 3rd wall with board, either dot and dab or double thickness if tacked. I’d use a waterproof tiling board like orbry but plasterboard would do. Tank before tiling.

 

[david mccullough]

you should have a rubber/flexible strip stuck to the wall sides of the tray, it's about 75mm deep with a very sticky film on the bottom half of one side, to stick to tray, to make a waterproof joint. then stick the top half to the walls, with silicon, then recommend tanking the walls

 

[Steve Griffiths]

I only use stone resin trays with adjustable legs, makes life much easier.
Fit it level it, seal to walls with CT1 etc