Deep Singh

Seems to be all the rage these days. Anybody got one? Any real life/practical problems you've found.

If you had a normal shower tray and there was a leak in the waste pipe you could just take the tray up easily. With a wet room I presume you've got to start breaking tiles?

Any experiences good or bad sought.

Thanks

daddyscoob

Hi

We have recently completed a self build and attatched is a Granny flat for my Mum. For various reasons I don't need to go into a normal shower would be no use so we built a wet room which she is over the moon with.

As it's a new house and the flat is ground floor it's probably less hassle than an upstairs set up. When the finished floors were being put in we just got them to put a slope in towards the outlet in the floor for the shower waste water.

Then we just tiled the whole room with some nonslip tiles and it worked out well.

Saying that at work we were called to a BIG fancy house with a wet room and their problem was water not getting away quick enough so we had to fit a door which sealed across the bottom to try to keep the water in.

Take care if you go ahead and if it's upstairs I think you would have to fit some form of tanking under any flooring you might lay.

PS where's the home cinema pics

alpha charlie

We changed from our en-suite single shower to a large walk in shower, used the Impey aquadec, tanking kit and finished off with Travetine tiles.
Been in constant use for 8 months now with no worries and boy its good!!
Cheers
Andy

hodgy0_2

yes -- my father in law had two installed in his property in london.

on the whole I would echo the comments above

but with the UK's comparatively damp climate they don't really work as well as they do in the mediterranean

TelBoy

I almost had one of my rooms converted, but was talked out of it by my plumber. In his opinion they're more trouble than they're worth, unless you REALLY get the preparation right, which effectively means putting in a thick fibreglass floor with a 12" sidewall to completely waterproof the whole thing, on which you can decorate/tile etc. Not such an issue if you're doing it on the ground floor, but even then, people apparently overlook how much water will be sloshing about and under-estimate the preparation work necessary. Proceed with caution would be my advice.

speedking

If the wetroom is also a bathroom, i.e. not just an oversized shower, and you want a shave after the shower, then the mirror is steamed up, all the towels are damp, and you're standing on a wet floor. You have to dry your feet before you step out into the bedroom. Not for me.

WIZZY2376

Did you use real travertine, or travertine looking tiles ?

Tidgy

thast the same with any shower room, wet or dry lol

Spoon

I've had a wet room ensuite (upstairs) for 10 years now without a single issue. Changed it from a bathroom as I had one of those. Marine ply fitted sloping to the drain is, or was back then, a no brainer. So why the negativity now I've no idea except to think skills are lacking and other jobs pay better more quickly.

Showering with several game women at once has never been as easy.

Tidgy

this thread is useless without pics,,,,,,,, pmsl

Deep Singh

Thanks. Mine would be in a loft extension en suite.

1) What exactly is this tanking system? How much does this add to the cost?

2) Does the fact that its in the loft make it much more complicated?

3) I'm slightly confused by what exactly constitutes a wet room. You can have shower with no shower tray but that is fully enclosed. So even though water drains straight into an inbuilt drain in the tiles the enclosure prevents the rest of the room getting wet.

Then, you can have no shower tray, and a walk in shower, so lots of water splashing about, but some protection from a pane or two of glass. Then of course you can just have a shower, no tray, and no enclosure. Is just the latter a wet room?
If so, then I see another practical problem with a wet room for an en suite, I couldn't have a shower while the other half uses the sink for example.

Anyway, if I wanted a walk in shower (so some water splashing about) and no tray does that still mean I need all these extra precautions ie tanking etc?

Daddyscoob, my digy camera is broken mate, hence no pics, sorry!

hodgy0_2

the wet room is what is says -- not just a big shower

the entire bathroom is WET and in my father in laws case tiled top to bottom and with a drain hole in the middle of the room

but as i said -- does not work too well in our damp climate -- see post #6

Borat_Drives_A_Scooby

I didn`t used to have a wet room but ive just created one after missing the toilet.

sti-04!!

Deep,

I have one fitted downstairs & its hardly used. It was done with the fibreglass method & it was then tanked, fitted with a non slip tiles & then sealed again with something else. Yeah it looks good but its not that good.
Stick with the usual method i would say, will save you money & a bit of hassle.

Deep Singh

Thanks. Wet room idea cancelled.