This probably sounds stupid, but can someone explain to this American what a wet room is? We have either enclosed shower stalls or a shower head in the bathtub.
A wet room has tiled walls and a floor.
It has a water drain to get rid of the water and a shower on the wall.
The floor is flat with no steps, so you just walk in, turn on the shower and that is it.
You can have grab rails if you are unsteady on your feet and a stool to sit on under the shower
I have one because I cannot lift up my left leg and it is wonderful.
I agree with Bertie except there is a drain hole in the floor and it is super Janet x
Thank you! That’s kind of what I was thinking it was. Are they common in British houses, or is it something you have to specially request due to a handicap? I guess you could say I have one here, but to get to it I have to go into the cellar!
No they are not common hun, but people with disability can ask for one to be fitted. I am in a sheltered flat, before then my own home. In my own home we took the bath out as i couldnt use it and put a shower stall in for me. It was better but i still managed to slip or bang myself on the sides.
Now in sheltered the bathroom is adapted to have a wet room. Half is shower, with a drain on the floor, and i have a perching stool and rails. when i have a shower the water just goes down the drain in the floor. I do have it separated with a curtain. the other side is all floor the same so you can use your wheelchair inside if you have too. also obviously i have a toilet and people need to use one lol.
to clean is easy peasy. I LOVE IT. I feel so safe. the floor is anti slip too.
I prefer it hands down to my shower cubicle. xx
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actually its like going to the swimming pool and having one of their showers after. if that makes sense.
Hi, we sacrificed a bedroom to make a wet room. Prior to that, the existing bathroom was tiny, so getting a commode over the toilet was impossible. Also getting me, a shower chair and a carer in was ridiculous! The new wet room was installed by a professional plumber, with hubby acting as preparer, labourer and finishing off man. Instead of tiles on the walls, we chose waterproof wall boards. They are black background with shiny bits in green, red, blue and silver.They twinkle and look good. The job was a big one with having to have a new entire floor and a sunken shower tray, with a slight slant and large drain hole. I chose a vertical shiny black radiator, white loo and basin and chrome fittings. The finishing touch of decadence is a mirror which has a deep 3 D effect, with tiny blue lights. The only disappointment is the flooring. It`s grey with flecks of darker grey. It never looks clean, despite the constant efforts of my hubby and carers, with all manner of cleaning products. I nicknamed the room HOLLYWOOD.
Having been part of many wet room installations (before the MS), I would say that they are more popular than you would think, especially amongst younger home owners who buy houses that require some updating.
Its very common these days to rip out a dated 3 piece suit and replace with a modern looking walk in shower or complete wet room.
Walk round any bathroom & tile store these days and you’ll see less and less displays of 3 piece bathroom suites, but more and more of walk in shower or wet room displays.
A good installation team will find it just as easy to instal a full wet room as it is to rip out and refurb a complete bathroom that includes a bathroom suit.
The tiling & piping out of a wet room is usually far quicker, as more often than not, theres no having to build boxing for pipework, which would need tiling over, if the floor is being replaced, a good forward thinking installation team will pipe out under the new floor.
Many, if not most of my family and friends have either full wet rooms or open walk in showers, and thats not down to a disability, it’s just the way people are updating their houses these days.
Styled with nice large tiles or Respatex wall boards and they can look very modern and smart.
Do any of you have experience of a body drier in the wetroom. We ar planning a wetroom now and would like to know whether people find body driers effective.
Completely agree, been browsing lately,…found my lottery win! With bathroom and en suite wetroom, 49’ living/kitchen/dining and 18x12 sitting room…only problem £££s!..it was just a bog standard bumgalow orriginally,just shows what can be done! Need a win for furniture and big rugs!..you can dream!
It might sound daft but in some equestrian places they use Solarium type lamps for drying without using blowers.
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Morning B, i have that floor in mine. my cleaner she steam cleans it and then uses METHOD wild rhubarb from tesco on it and it comes up lovely and clean. it was a nightmare to start with never looked clean, i have it in kitchen too. HOLLYWOOD sounds very classy. I love my wet room too.
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I could do a decent wheelie in those big rooms! Bouds x
You’d have enough, with the lottery win, you could buy a tank! And have room,…in fact that gives me an idea foar Maude, my mini,maybe display her inside! I just think bedroom is just est,ate agent speak, you can use them for anything.
‘NorasMom’, this dutchman is as ‘stupid’…(oh no we’re not…:). I have just checked with my (british) wife as I thought we have one…but we haven’t!!.. We DO have a ‘room’ etc with toilet/ basin/ shower ‘tub’ with enclosed screen downstairs BUT my wife just told me that I cannot call it a wet room because ‘that’ only has a shower in it…thank you for asking, still learning after all these years!..those (mainland) europeans eh…(but please do not send me back!)…
Oh, I love those! I wonder why it hasn’t caught on over here. So much more practical than a standard bathroom, even for a busy, healthy, young family.
it has to have a level floor that can get wet all over…