Shower
A shower stall, seen from above, with the drain in its floor.
This explains what a symbol represents on a drawing. Conventions vary between firms and standards, and a drawing's own legend takes precedence.
How to read it
The Army's print-reading manual names shower stalls among the fixtures shown on plans by pictorial or block symbols, and has separate symbols for a single shower head and gang shower heads. The Navy's Utilitiesman course lists tubs, showers, tub-and-shower combinations and gang showers, a large room with no partitions.
Also searched as: shower pan, shower stall.
Look-alikes
A bathtub is longer, with the drain at one end. A floor drain on its own is a small circle with FD.
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Sources
- Construction Print Reading in the Field, TM 5-704 / AFM 85-27, Departments of the Army and the Air Force, para. 3-8d; fig. 3-8
- Utilitiesman Basic, NAVEDTRA 14265A, Naval Education and Training Command, U.S. Navy, ch. 1, sec. 1.3.2; ch. 6, sec. 1.6.0
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