Shower
A shower stall, seen from above, with the drain in its floor.
Easily confused with
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.
This explains what a symbol represents on a drawing. Conventions vary between firms and standards, and a drawing's own legend takes precedence.
Look-alikes
A bathtub is longer, with the drain at one end. A floor drain on its own is a small circle with FD.
Read next
- Next in Blueprint symbolsFloor drainA drain set into the floor. Plans mark it with the letters FD.
- The same shape in European flagsFlag of GreeceGreece’s flag is nine horizontal stripes, five blue and four white, with a white cross on a blue square in the top corner by the pole. Law 851/1978 fixes the design but gives it no meaning; readings of the nine stripes, such as the nine syllables of “Freedom or Death”, are popular tradition.
More blueprint symbols
The same shape elsewhere
Browse symbols drawn with crosses or squares and rectangles.
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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