摘要 |
A shower base including a unitary moulding that has a plurality of sides. The shower base includes a floor on which a person stands while taking a shower, when the shower base is installed. It also includes a thin-walled upstand at at least one of said sides of 5 the base, which upstand is: (i) of a thickness sufficiently small for the upstand to be accommodated between wall studs and a wallboard attached directly to the studs at the respective side of the base without either rebating the studs or packing out the wallboard at the studs, and (ii) of a height great enough to prevent water rising by capillary action behind the wallboard and over the upstand. The shower base also 10 includes a channel in said moulding, immediately adjacent said upstand, to receive and seat a lowermost edge of said wallboard. |