Soap Dish: 27 inches from floor to bottom of fixture (soap rests 1 inch higher), and 6 inches off center toward the back of tub (left). This is a "compromise" bath/shower height, higher than my original (and all my life) of about 23 inches. At 27 inches I can grab the soap without the least bending. Yet it is still easy to reach in the tub, and fits neatly below the grab bar at 36 inches from finished floor. I also had to consider interference between grab bar and soap dish, which is no problem at 27 inches but would be at 32. But then 32 would overlap the grab bar for the top art of the soap tray. It seems the soap tray designers got the minimum height, at about 5 inches, built in. Minimum for 5" high soap dish would be 31 inches. Still 27 gives more comfortable clearance than 31 would, and is an excellent overall height. Standard call for showers having soap dish mounted high--above 48 inches, but that doesn't work for bath shower, and I've never liked high soap dishes for some reason. I find it nice to plop the soap down lower. But to further remove the dish from shower spray, just enough backward positioning. Don't want it too far back to be inconvenient.
7 inches off-center, towards the back, seems to reject shower spray sufficiently in the Queens's bath. (Actually, I live with the current one in far worse position, but the spray is usually narrow.) 7 inches back is not at all inconvenient, though convenience does diminish as you go further back. 8 inches possibly being a tad less convenient, but it would work also.
Shower Outlet (pipe on center): 78 inches, three inches higher than current 75. Higher than 78, and it gets tougher for me (and worse Noelia) to work the arm diverter. Tall people in my shower can use the fine handheld with almost 7 foot high head when attached to arm. Current 75 barely clears my head by about 3 inches with big diverter and tall head, so it needs to be more. (I've read current average construction is 80 inches, custom construction usually 84.) I'm 5' 6.5", and I don't ever intend to sell this home. Old code minimum, which was virtually standard before the 1970's, was 72 inches.
Niche: 44 inches high (or slightly lower) from floor and 28 inch high niche, divided into two parts with a shelf, meaning 13.5 inches high storage top and bottom. 14 inch is a good size for large bottles, even my largest are actually 10 but that means 12 would be about minimum. Niche heights seem to go in 14 inch increments, 14, 28, etc. 44 inches puts shelf upper around 59 which is an easy reach, even for short person.
Shower valve (pipe on center):47 inches the standard 48 inches seems just fine, especially for the Lahara control whose control action for velocity is a few inches below center.
Spout: bottom of spout has to be 4 inches from flood level of bath, probably 5-6 inches from tub to center of pipe, or 20-21 inches from floor. (Tub is 14 7/8 inches high.)
Bath valve: 27 inches. (
5.5/27 is what it is now. No reason to change unless necessary for code, it seems right on target.
7 inches off-center, towards the back, seems to reject shower spray sufficiently in the Queens's bath. (Actually, I live with the current one in far worse position, but the spray is usually narrow.) 7 inches back is not at all inconvenient, though convenience does diminish as you go further back. 8 inches possibly being a tad less convenient, but it would work also.
Shower Outlet (pipe on center): 78 inches, three inches higher than current 75. Higher than 78, and it gets tougher for me (and worse Noelia) to work the arm diverter. Tall people in my shower can use the fine handheld with almost 7 foot high head when attached to arm. Current 75 barely clears my head by about 3 inches with big diverter and tall head, so it needs to be more. (I've read current average construction is 80 inches, custom construction usually 84.) I'm 5' 6.5", and I don't ever intend to sell this home. Old code minimum, which was virtually standard before the 1970's, was 72 inches.
Niche: 44 inches high (or slightly lower) from floor and 28 inch high niche, divided into two parts with a shelf, meaning 13.5 inches high storage top and bottom. 14 inch is a good size for large bottles, even my largest are actually 10 but that means 12 would be about minimum. Niche heights seem to go in 14 inch increments, 14, 28, etc. 44 inches puts shelf upper around 59 which is an easy reach, even for short person.
Shower valve (pipe on center):
Spout: bottom of spout has to be 4 inches from flood level of bath, probably 5-6 inches from tub to center of pipe, or 20-21 inches from floor. (Tub is 14 7/8 inches high.)
Bath valve: 27 inches. (
5.5/27 is what it is now. No reason to change unless necessary for code, it seems right on target.
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