6'x8' shower room with walk-in... anyone got pics of theirs?

[rednotdead]

We were in a similar situation. Sacked the bath and went for a walk-in shower, not regretted it in 3 years. Only thing I would say is get your shower controls positioned so you can turn it on without getting wet, and fit a bloody good extractor (or 2).

Here's ours after it was just completed:



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[Cactussed]

Perfect. OP, follow the above design principles and advice re the shower taps

[zygalski]

rednotdead said:

We were in a similar situation. Sacked the bath and went for a walk-in shower, not regretted it in 3 years. Only thing I would say is get your shower controls positioned so you can turn it on without getting wet, and fit a bloody good extractor (or 2).

Here's ours after it was just completed:



and

Thanks... that's a smart use of space.

[rednotdead]

Couple of other things to consider:

1) Get a shower head with removable hand held attachment, much easier for cleaning the shower and glass.

2) A wall mounted sink unit makes the room seem much bigger as you see more floor. Same with toilet pan if your walls will take it, ours wouldn't hence the 'normal' pan.

3) Make sure your tile layout is spot on re tile centres etc, it does make a big difference to the eye.

4) Get the best shower tray you can afford, we tested lots and there is a big difference in quality.

5) Go for the largest towel rail you can, no point having one that is completely covered by the towels so the room doesn't warm!

6) Underfloor heating is ace.

[5potTurbo]

Seeing as you've a centrally located door in to the bathroom, if that's a stud wall, why not move the door more to one side (the left?) and then the shower unit can go into the bottom right the corner of the room?

However, even on your latest 'plan', the towel rail's still out of reach when you're getting out of the shower, hence my comment in my first post. As an alternative, if the shower tray could, short-end on, go into the bottom right corner of the room, then have a single, full-tray length screen along, and the towel rail to the right of the window where the shower cubicle's open ended?

For the shower controls, noting the picture above where they're easily reached before you get in the cubicle, in my brother's new house the shower controls also have a 'remote' start button outside the shower, so the water's up to temperature before you get in.

[IanA2]

Why not make a wet room. That's what I had done:

[Rosscow]

IanA2 said:

Why not make a wet room. That's what I had done:

You desperately need to paint the window white and get rid of the brass ironmongery, in my opinion of course!

[newbie29]

IanA2 said:

Why not make a wet room. That's what I had done:

wow in such a small space, whats the size, how much did it cost to build, ive got 3 wetrooms to construct in my new build, playing around with sizes and costs at the min.

Thanks

[IanA2]

Rosscow said:

IanA2 said:

Why not make a wet room. That's what I had done:

You desperately need to paint the window white and get rid of the brass ironmongery, in my opinion of course!

Only on PH

The ironmongery was changed to brushed stainless steel before the first shower. Those pics were taken by the builder (I lifted them from his site as I don't keep pictures of my bathrooms) the day he finished and before the painters came.

I was just trying to help the OP by showing another option for a small bathroom.

[zygalski]

IanA2 said:

Rosscow said:

IanA2 said:

Why not make a wet room. That's what I had done:

You desperately need to paint the window white and get rid of the brass ironmongery, in my opinion of course!

Only on PH

The ironmongery was changed to brushed stainless steel before the first shower. Those pics were taken by the builder (I lifted them from his site as I don't keep pictures of my bathrooms) the day he finished and before the painters came.

I was just trying to help the OP by showing another option for a small bathroom.

It's an interesting option. What about storage within the wet room? We seem to need a fair bit of bathroom storage.

[IanA2]

newbie29 said:

IanA2 said:

Why not make a wet room. That's what I had done:

wow in such a small space, whats the size, how much did it cost to build, ive got 3 wetrooms to construct in my new build, playing around with sizes and costs at the min.

Thanks

I can't remember the exact cost, but it was a wee bit pricey as it as it was re-boarded and tanked floor to ceiling. A bit overkill methinks.

Maybe around £5K? not really sure. Size wise it is small, it had been used as a shower room (enclosed) before and was terrible. It's about 2.10M x 1.30M (recess is about .25M).

hth

[IanA2]

zygalski said:

It's an interesting option. What about storage within the wet room? We seem to need a fair bit of bathroom storage.

Don't really store much in there, just a couple of towels and robe which hang (and stay dry) on the door and the radiator. The recess stays dry as does the window shelf.

[The Moose]

If you were to install something like this, you could then lose the end glass panel and have the shower tray up against the end wall allowing you to use the corner of the window sill for shower storage etc.

I'd then put something like this under where the extractor fan is (leave extractor there at high level).

I don't like the thought of taking a st in a wet room after someone's had a shower.

If possible, have the door opening the other way if possible - it'll open up the room.

Loo & Basin may need to be swapped round for waste from loo. Doesn't really matter in terms of the room I don't think.

[Davey S2]

My parents have a holiday chalet in the Gower and have just had the bathroom redone (after 40 years!). It's a really small space and previously had a bath in it with a shower on the wall. My parents are getting on a bit and would have difficulty getting in and out of a bath and no one has baths there anyway.

This what they have had done

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Massive improvement over what was there before.

[Quinny]

This is mine....it's 8x7 and fully tanked so can be used as a wet room, but we prefer a shower curtain just to keep the shower a little more enclosed

It's basically a shower in one corner, loo in the other, and then a small cupboard with sink on top.....2 towel rails, and a heated mirror.

Total cost for the whole job worked out at around £6k.....was done by local handyman

[Rosscow]

IanA2 said:

Rosscow said:

IanA2 said:

Why not make a wet room. That's what I had done:

You desperately need to paint the window white and get rid of the brass ironmongery, in my opinion of course!

Only on PH

The ironmongery was changed to brushed stainless steel before the first shower. Those pics were taken by the builder (I lifted them from his site as I don't keep pictures of my bathrooms) the day he finished and before the painters came.

I was just trying to help the OP by showing another option for a small bathroom.

Apologies

[yellowtang]

This was a ground floor shower room in a thatched cottage I restored last year. The tray was 1500x800 cast slimline one (I had to raise it in the end to get a decent fall on the waste!)

[yellowtang]

In hindsight, we probably had enough fall on the waste!

No idea how to correct that photo!

[Gtom]

I would still be tempted to fit a shower bath, you can get some pretty decent ones.

I fitted this one at my parents recently http://www.adamsez.com/products/showeringbaths/ret...

Sadly the bathroom wasn't big enough for a separate shower but it's a really good alternative and it's not P-shaped.

[Matt Harper]

My house had a bit of an odd set-up, in that the shower stall had an aluminum sliding door, out into the back yard - the idea being you could access the shower from my pool deck without trailing a big puddle of water through the house. It was horrible and was also an easy breach-point for a break in, so I closed it up and put a glass wall in, which is a lot more secure.




Excuse my 'verticals', it's not really pissed.



This is ground floor on a concrete slab. My building regs require a min 4 inch curb for a walk-in shower.