We have that too.
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Been there, had to go, to make way for a stand up shower
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Not good for the environment .
Care to explain?
Wet Wipes in the sewage system, well documented.
that’s true even the ones that say they can be flushed shouldn’t be flushed.
Its just common sense.
The ones we use are disposable in the bog.
This sort of improvement is my plan for the next few years with an aim of making my house still suitable as I get older. So this week I’d new stairs put in as the old ones were ridiculously steep with narrow steps and no hand rail. Already I am noticing the difference coming down the stairs.
The next step is made possible by having a wall knocked down for the new stairs. The route up to the main bathroom is more open so I’ll be able to get a bigger bath put in.
In the meantime, can I applaud the decision to put in a decent size walk in shower. I hate little showers, all that elbow banging. But if you’ve enough hot water at hand then a proper mixer tap with rainfall shower head is better (for me) than the wall mounted water heater.
I want my bath removed and a shower put in. The bath is ridiculously short, as the whole room is so small, that lying down in it isn’t an option. I struggle to get up from it anyway.
No shower cubicle. The whole room is the shower room (wet room). A curtain can be pulled round the showering area. Mrs mart uses that but I don’t bother. Just sweep the water to the drain with a long-handled squeegee. It means we always have a very clean shower room floor.
we also did the same to our main bathroom and ensuite. the previous owner was a so called builder with his own company 
what a numbskull buying a frenchall in one all sinnging and dancing shower unit only to find having fitted it the threaded pipe conections are different to those in the UK. So nothing worked except the radio and one jet.
osuite was
now as this
new main bathroom
from this
I’m interested - does this work well? I’ve used rental property wet rooms and occasionally a hotel wet room bathroom (ok, in the bathroom of a Premier Inn disabled room but essentially the same). And I was not impressed. Wet bath mat. Work to wipe the room down. Sprayed water on toilet and all over the rest of the room. I’m happy that you are happy with your wet room, but why not a big shower? Our main shower is 1.2 metres by 0.8 metres. Enough room to stand to one side of the rain fall shower, but a glass door that keeps the rest of the room dry. Why not that?
It does work well. No mats and the level access shower area is needed for our situation. Mrs mart is able transfer from the wheelchair to a shower chair with a quick slide from one to the other. The floor does need drying every time but I don’t find that too much trouble. Since the room was put together as a wet room, the heavy duty lino goes a few inches up the wall to join up with the tiles. The floor is completely sealed so that no water can get underneath the lino. A Premier Inn wet room may not be the best example.
All a matter of preference and what is suitable for personal circumstances.
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My bathroom is a wet room even though the shower is actually a large cubicle, it even has (as does the laundry) a drain in the centre of the room. The toilet is a separate room.
The problem is that the bathroom, toilet and laundry tiles are not non slip whereas the cubicle tiles are. It makes a big difference as you get older.
I really don’t need them,I probably gave the wrong impression - the floor tiles are not that slippery even when wet being designed for a bathroom/laundry area and have a matt finish but the shower cubicle tiles wouldn’t let you slip if you poured oil on them.
The cubicle replaced a bath, is slightly raised and has smaller tiles which are easier to shape toward the drain. The bathroom wasn’t that old but retiling just the bath area to match the rest presented problems so I went with the easier solution
This is the arrangement. Maybe not all that pretty but functional anyway. The floor is non-slip with a knobbly sort of texture…
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