ᐅ Access panel in the base of the shower tray?

@Wastl: If you couldn’t have solved it with chemicals, you could have cut out a tile, right? Is there actually a "gap" left in the masonry behind the tile, so that you can even access it once the tile is removed? @ypg, how is it with you?

Is this going to be built with masonry? In our case, the shower base support is made of polystyrene.

@Musketier We don’t have a polystyrene support for the tub. It gets "feet," which I think is some kind of metal frame system. But you can’t tile directly on that, so in my opinion, the base is built up with masonry. I even suspect it’s made of bricks, since other facing walls here were constructed that way. (Exterior walls are made of lightweight expanded clay aggregate blocks.)

Wastl schrieb:
Our bathtub was clogged once already -

May I ask what caused it? Clogging is actually quite a rare occurrence...

willWohnen schrieb:
@ypg, how is it handled on your end?

Also made of poly... or styrofoam... The material is fully tiled over.
To be honest, I have no problem with that at all. I always found access panels really ugly (back in our apartments).
Even with our current bathtub, it would rather spoil the appearance.
And such emergencies seem to be quite infrequent, so I guess more and more builders or plumbing specialists skip these panels nowadays.

Here in the apartment, we often have the problem that the bathtub drain doesn’t work properly. It’s not completely blocked, but the water drains slowly and gets slower over time if nothing is done. We regularly have to treat it with chemicals or use a device that sends a small burst of compressed air through the pipe. There are still many apartments above us, and since we’re on the ground floor, maybe that’s the reason. I can’t think of anything we do with the bathtub that could cause these problems! I don’t regularly pour leftover paint down the drain, nor do I pour construction water with mud or gravel into it. When we moved in and ran the washing machine for the first time, I found some pine needles in the adjacent bathtub afterwards. In my opinion, the washing machine’s draining must have pushed them up there; I can’t explain it any other way.

My parents recently had a problem with the drains or sewer pipes in their 1970s house, but I believe the clog was located elsewhere. An access panel wouldn’t have helped. My father fixed it after hours of work using a plumber’s snake. If that hadn’t worked, they would have had to open up the wall.

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Regarding inspection openings, I see them the same way as insurance; some people need them.....

From my professional experience with chemical use, I can say:
More is not better.......... NO ...... it causes a lot of damage.
Various deformed drains, which then drain even worse, are often the result.
Nothing beats manual pipe cleaning, especially for clogged individual drains, preferably using a suction and pressure cleaner.


Olli