Stainless Steel Floor Drains in Deep-Drawn Grade 304

Jawdah Industrial Co. Ltd. manufactures its stainless steel floor drains for the requirements of the Saudi market, with a range of dimensions and designs. Whether a project needs a concealed floor drain, a drain with a customised striped cover or a common design, the stainless range is built around one material and one forming method.

This page brings together every documented stainless model in one table, explains what deep drawing and grade 304 mean for a drain, and lists what to include in a specification or RFQ. For shape-specific advice, follow the links to the square, circle and linear drain pages.

A floor drain is permanently wet, cleaned more often than almost any other fitting, and exposed to soap, food residue, detergents and disinfectants. Stainless steel suits that duty because its passive surface resists rust, does not need a coating that can chip, and can be washed hard without losing its finish.

Jawdah's product data presents its stainless drains as suitable for bathrooms, kitchens, wash areas, commercial facilities and industrial environments, and notes that stainless steel is a practical choice for areas that are drained regularly, because it makes cleaning and maintenance easier over time. The range sits within Jawdah's wider stainless steel sanitary group, together with kitchen sinks and squat toilets.

Deep drawing is a sheet-metal forming process in which a flat stainless blank is pressed by a punch into a die, so the sheet flows into a cup or box shape. The result is a drain body formed from one piece. Jawdah describes its drains as produced by deep drawing to give seamless, sturdy bodies without welds or joints that can weaken over time.

For a floor drain, the practical benefit of a one-piece body is that there are no welded seams in the wet zone to trap dirt or become a weak point, and the inner surfaces stay smooth and easy to flush. Sheet thickness sets how stiff the body and cover are: Jawdah uses 1 mm sheet on its square and rectangle hidden drains and 1.7 mm sheet on its rounded drains.

The Square Hidden Stainless Steel Floor Drain uses a concealed design in which the cover is meant to merge with the floor finish. It is listed in three nominal sizes with hole sizes of 1.5”, 3.5” and 4”.

The Rectangle Hidden Stainless Steel Floor Drain is a long, narrow drain in seven nominal lengths. Its table lists the designs Hidden, Stainless Steel Top, Edged Circle, Edged Square and Edged Slots across the range, which gives designers a choice between a tile-in look and visible stainless patterns.

The Rounded Stainless Steel Floor Drain is listed in a Standard design, with the heaviest sheet in the range and outlet holes of 3” and 3.5”. Beyond these named designs, Jawdah offers drains with a customised striped cover.

Jawdah combines a documented grade, a stated corrosion warranty and a published size table, which together make submittals quicker to prepare and review. The range can be made to order to suit Saudi market requirements, including customised striped covers.

For a complete wet-area package, the same manufacturer also supplies stainless steel sinks and squat toilets.

Jawdah lists three resources for this range: the System Catalogue, a Technical Data Sheet (TDS) for the product, and Tests, which are available in hard copy. The documents do not appear as downloads; they are requested from the Jawdah team and can be attached to a material submittal.

Jawdah's product data does not name a specific international standard or approving body for the floor drains. When a consultant asks for compliance evidence, request the hard-copy test documents and review them against the project specification rather than relying on general marketing statements.

Check these points at delivery and handover.

Routine cleaning with water and a mild detergent keeps the stainless surface in good condition. Remove the cover periodically to clear hair and grease, and flush the body. If tea-coloured staining appears, it is usually surface contamination that can be removed with a stainless steel cleaner, followed by a clean-water rinse.

Avoid bleach left standing on the metal, hydrochloric acid used for tile cleaning, and steel wool. Rinse the drain after any aggressive chemical cleaning of the surrounding floor.

Jawdah names a broad set of uses for its stainless floor drains, covering residential, commercial and industrial buildings.

A stainless drain has to work with three neighbouring systems: the waste pipe it discharges into, the waterproofing membrane it must seal to, and the tile or screed finish around its cover. The hole size in the Jawdah table is the starting point for the pipe connection, and the drainage designer should confirm the fitting and any trap arrangement.

On the finishing side, hidden designs need the tile module and tile thickness decided before ordering, while standard and stainless-top designs are less sensitive to the floor finish. Specifying drains together with Jawdah stainless sinks and squat toilets keeps the stainless finish consistent across kitchens and toilet blocks.

A typical sequence is: set the drain body on the pipe at the correct level, fix it so it cannot move during screeding, form the screed falls toward it, dress the waterproofing into the drain flange, then tile and fit the grate or tile insert. Keep a protective cover on the drain until final cleaning so mortar and grout do not enter the outlet.

Before handover, pour water onto the floor and confirm it runs to the drain without ponding, and check that the cover sits level and does not rock.

Floor drain specifications often fail in the details rather than in the choice of material.

These statements are taken directly from Jawdah's product information for the stainless floor drain range.

Grade 304 is the most widely used austenitic stainless steel. Its chromium and nickel content forms a thin, self-renewing oxide film that protects the surface in everyday wet conditions, including fresh water, soaps and most domestic and commercial cleaning products. It is also non-magnetic in the annealed state and forms well, which is why it is commonly chosen for deep-drawn parts.

Where a drain will be exposed to unusual chemistry, such as strong chloride concentrations, pool water or aggressive industrial effluent, designers sometimes consider a higher-alloy grade. Jawdah's published grade for its stainless drains is 304; if a specification demands a different grade, include it in the enquiry so that Jawdah can confirm feasibility for the project.

The table reproduces Jawdah's three drain tables in one place. Dimensions are printed without a unit in the Jawdah data and are given here as nominal sizes as listed. Hole sizes are in inches and thickness is in millimetres.

For the rectangle range, Jawdah lists its five designs once for the whole table rather than per size, so confirm the design available for a specific length when ordering.