Hello
We are considering replacing a shower room with a wetroom.
Do any of you have experience of wetroom flooring which is not too cold?
My feet tend to spasm on cold flooring so I would like flooring which is close to body temperature. Is this possible?
Thanks
Siân
You could lay under floor heating under the wet room flooring, which is usually made from a rubber/vinyl/polymer material.
A rubber flooring will offer the best "natural’ warmth, in fact you shouldn’t need under floor heating with a rubber flooring.
Or you could lay non slip ceramic or porcelain tiles with under floor heating.
If tiling ALWAYS lay 8mm marine ply between the existing floorboards and your tiles, no need to do this if using vinyl wet room flooring.
A decent installer should be able to answer your queries.
ALWAYS get it installed by a professional wet room installer.
I used to instal bathrooms & shower rooms, but if someone wanted a full on wet room I usually contracted it out, even the slightest error can have devastating results.
If you get a plumber to instal it, ask for references from customers who’ve had a wet room fitted.
You’ll probably find countless plumbers or bathroom installers willing to accept the job, but you really need someone who ONLY specialises in wet rooms.
My father lives in a council house and the council installed a disabled wet room 18 months, in fairness it looked basic but ok, however 18 months on he’s now having to get the council to replace the kitchen ceiling due to the wet room floor above leaking.
Basically a plumber is not the same as a wet room installer
Theres lots of info online.
I’ve seen this companies work, and they are probably amongst the top end installers in the UK.
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Hello I cannot lift my left leg, so I had my shower which was 6 inches high replaced with a shower tray which is only 2 inches high. I had fitted various grab rails and a fold down seat. When I walk in I grab the rail, turn on my shower and it warms the base, then I sit down and relax. It cost just under £3000 for everything, shower , toilet, tiling, cupboard and plumbing, love it.
Local council may offer free installation under their “Care & Repair” schemes.
You don’t need to be a council tenant or live in a council house.
in my sheltered i have a wet room its BLISS, no more do i have to lift a leg up to get into a enclosed shower with screens which i had on occasions nearly gone through.
i have no idea of the material i think its like rubber, it has no seams like squares or anything, so not sure but it cleans easy so my cleaner tells me as it has no grout or seams etc.
so rubber, its warm its fine for my feet i dont mean warm its not cold like when you go onto flooring and hop on one foot as its your feet are cold lol although the thought of actually being able to hop is a hoot lol.
so if you go with a specialist which i would they will be able to advise you. i love mine so much i have a perching stool i sit on its best thing ever my wet room.
My question is what do they use to create a solid surface under safety flooring. Self levelling stuff might be ok but i would like to add a bit more fall by raising the floor slightly and ramping a few mill towards the drain.
Marine ply is usually the sub base to lay the actual wet room flooring onto.
The area that you actually stand on to bath is a fixed composite floor panel with a built in waste and has a natural run off to the waste.
There are many ways to lay a wet room floor, but the most common way is to set a composite floor panel into your existing floor .
Basically you cut away the size of the panel out of your existing floor, then sit the panel base into the cut out , so its now sitting flush with the existing floor.
The new rubber flooring is then laid on top of this , and turn up at the edges to form a water tight area.
It all depends on what type of floor finish you want ?
The above installation would be used for a rubber/vinyl type flooring, a tiled floor would be laid differently, perhaps forming your own run into a waste, or using a specific base manufactured to go under a tiled finish, but again you would still use marine ply to lay the tiles onto for the rest of the room.
Its not just a case of dropping in your composite sub base into the floor cut out, and then tiling the whole area, one rule is you NEVER EVER tile on top of floor boards, you always screw down marine ply onto existing floor boards.
Heres a good example of how you would prepare the floor for a tiled wet room finish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIQyiESIWQE
Basically each type of finished floor would have a different way of preparing the under base.