Trench drain systems have become widely used when homeowners, hotel managers or anyone needing to create an ADA accessible shower needs to make a tub to shower conversion. The channel drain, which also goes by the name of linear drain, is the device that is used to move water away from areas of the bathroom that need to stay dry, and they do so with a functionality that is unsurpassed by other drains. Along with many applications in the bathroom, a shower trough drain also brings a host of style choices to your interior design, making your bathroom a place of beauty as well.

Planning Your Tub To Shower Conversion . . .

Many contractors as well as interior designers advise their clients who need to make the switch from tub to shower to select an appropriate trench shower drain. The trench shower drain does utilize a trench or channel that goes below the finished floor level, and into this trench is placed the linear drain. As the name implies, a linear drain is long and rectangular in shape.

One of the major advantages that comes from using trench drain systems is that your construction costs are reduced as compared with a traditional floor drain installation. The floor of the shower stall must be sloped in the direction of the drain. If that drain is a classic round drain, what this means is extensive labor time to create a round-shaped slope to the floor using multiple planes. All of this costly labor time is greatly reduced when the channel drain is installed, because these drains only need to have one slope, because of their linear shape.

Bathroom Design Style

Interior designers are fans of the shower trench drain because it allows them to create open and airy bathroom styles. With a standard round floor drain, the shower pan must have a lip or edge built into it in order to keep the water from escaping. This edge is not required with the channel drain, and this opens up many design options. You can have glass doors that extend all the way to the floor, for example, if the drain is placed in front of the length of the door. Because there are no hard floor edges to stop the eye, it makes the entire bathroom appear larger. Not only that, but these elegant shower drains also create a roll-in shower perfect for ADA accessibility purposes.

Shower drain manufacturers can show you examples of these drains, and offer a variety of ways that they can be used in the home, hotels, hospitals and other buildings.