I mentioned in the hardcore commuter thread that I was filling the suggestion box with a blizzard of suggestions asking for a shower to be installed at work...

My boss says if I can figure out where I can put one, I can go for it...if I build it.

So I'm thinking about a simple chain pull shower like we have at our beach house. I just couldn't get naked without the police becoming involved.

So I have to look and see what I can come up with. It won't be anything spectacular but It will be a shower!

Suggestions are welcomed!

Get with the facilities manager. Find a utility closet that has existing water lines.

It's fine and dandy that the idea got approved but is your company also funding it? If they're making you find a location and putting the onus of the building of the shower on you seems like they're a little half-hearted in their support. Good luck.

awesome, I would love to have the opportunity to build a shower at work. Not only would I get a shower at work to help deal with this summer heat, but I would have a fun project. I love projects like building things, I am engineer who never actually gets to build stuff. I only get to draw pictures of stuff that other people build.

I found a complete shower assembly with the faucet and fiberglass shell for free on craigslist! Even came with the glass door and all the hardware. In my previous job I put one from the rafters int he basement right next to the floor drain and then just got a couple of shower curtains and made my own "stall"

So does your boss own the building? Consider your location carefully as you may be required to make it ADA accessible (if you get a permit). If you don't make it ADA accessible, your boss might run into problems if he ever hires a handicapped person, or he might have to upgrade it to comply (leave extra room).

We put in a shower in our office and were required to make it ADA accessible and it doubled the amount of space needed. We used one of those prefab all-in-one situations. Don't forget the fan.

I used to work at a place where they converted one stall in the bathroom into a shower.

yea the water hot and cold, and the drain in the floor are the parts that determine location

Ive been in places in Europe, where the shower is an open corner with the H+C in and
floor drain out for the water

Well I guess I am the facilities manager if I want a shower. Drainage is the problem. I don't know if I can find a suitable place that has drainage. I don't have a budget, i just have to make it as cheap as possible.

I do like the idea of an ikea shower like the hotels in Sweden have. That's probably going to be the direction I will go if I can get drainage somehow.

I would be really happy until they said, "If you build it." That doesn't sound like an easy job. That's why people hire plumbers.

He approved a shower. A shower doesn't necessarily include a drain. If he wants drainage, let him build it.

Well, I'm really the only one requesting it. This is a small business, and he really is being nice by entertaining the thought of me having a place to wash up instead of the shop sink. I bought a pickle bucket from Firehouse Subs, and I usually rinse my superhero suit in there. and rinse my hair out under the faucet. That works well enough for now.

He's actually not a bad plumber. He's installed everything in the building so far. He has been giving me suggestions on how we might be able to rig something up.

I'm sure we'll work out something. After all, it would benefit everyone.

Tell your boss there is already one installed...just pull the fire alarm whenever you get into work. =P

Alternatively, you can get some nice granite and make the shower reaaaalllly nice.

It's pretty cool that you boss is letting you do it though.

Check this service out for your area....

https://www.freecycle.org/

People are always posting used shower stall fixtures and stuff ect... after they do a remodel.
Build it to code.

Build it on an outer wall and drain it outside,it's just soapy water.No dirt clods or barnacles right?

Or is there a wall that backs up to a bathroom?

Worse comes to worse,you can put a sump in it and pump the used water to the sink or head.

Like commo said - you need to try to find a location near an existing sanitary waste line f you want to keepcosts under control - utility closets and toilet rooms are good places to start - also look at the existing plumbing drawings of the floor below the one you want the shower on - thats where the waste piping for the floor above will show. Remember that this is sanitary waste and can't be tied into the roof drains. If your building has a grey water system, you might be able to tie into that.
Adding a shower to a floor above grade or above a crawl space will be considerable easier than adding one to a slab on grade. You can core the floor, depending on your local or state plumbing code you may also need an overflow drain, and do the drainage connection in the ceiling of the floor below. In a slab on grade application you will need to tear up the flooring, trench the floor, do your waste connection, backfill, repour the slab and finally replace the flooring.
Finally, you will likely need to get architectural, plumbing and HVAC drawings (shower rooms are required to be vented, typically can be connected to toilet room exhausts) before the building inspector will issue a construction permit.
Good luck.

As you're a gathering from my post there is a fair bit of work involved - you might want to start by getting a proposal from an architect who is already familiar with your building if you don't have an architect in your facilities dept. Also ask for a ballpark estimate of construction cost, not just the professional services fees.