A typical wood frame floor covered with carpet or vinyl flooring has a dead load of about 8 pounds per square foot.
Show slow half inch per foot show floor.
For example if the room is 10 feet long and 12 feet wide and each square represents 1 square foot draw a square on grid paper that is 10 squares long and 12 squares wide.
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.
A 2 slope will probably ensure better drainage we could also find no slope tolerance for use when a floor slope is specified.
This may seem light but this is 50 pounds over each and every square foot of floor space.
For example a properly designed office floor can support 50 pounds per square foot.
It does not mean that a 300 lb.
Floors that slope 2 or 3 inches in 20 feet would be a very serious concern.
Lineman standing on one leg will fall through the floor.
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.
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.
If there s wall board covered ceiling suspended from the underside of that floor the dead load increases to about 10 pounds per square foot.