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Shower floor slope to efficiently drain the recommended minimum slope for a shower floor is about 4 percent or a 1 2 inch drop per every 12 inches from the shower walls to the drain.
Step 3 measure the furniture you re going to place in the room then draw it to scale on the grid.
A typical wood frame floor covered with carpet or vinyl flooring has a dead load of about 8 pounds per square foot.
Lineman standing on one leg will fall through the floor.
The recommended slope for flat roofs is usually 1 1 8 inch per foot or 2 1 4 inch per foot according to the professional handbook of building construction published by john wiley sons new york.
Nearly all will say that if a floor slopes 1 and 1 2 inches in twenty feet or more that there should be further investigation.
Basically they are saying if a floor is sloping over a 1 2 to 1 inch in twenty feet then there is concern.
Floors that slope 2 or 3 inches in 20 feet would be a very serious concern.
The dead load on a floor is determined by the materials used in the floor s construction.
For example a properly designed office floor can support 50 pounds per square foot.
This may seem light but this is 50 pounds over each and every square foot of floor space.