Bathroom help! What do we think about fluted glass and hinged flappers?

[Epictantrum]

I'm (very) slowly planning a bathroom renovation. As you enter the room, the glass shower panel will be immediately to your right, forming a short corridor to get into the room. It feels a bit "exposed" so I was thinking about some textured (e.g. fluted) glass rather than plain. Plus the glass screen will be 1200mm with no door planned (it's a corner shower, so 2 walls, 1 sheet of glass, and 1 open side). Bathroom fitter advised us to consider a hinged flapper screen to try and avoid too much water escaping (will be a tiled "wet room" floor but the tiled tray won't be much larger than 1200mm). I'm worried about more cleaning, mould in the rubber seal etc. Does anyone have any advice on fluted glass and flapper screens? Thanks

I would never have shower screen again. I don't know anyone who hasn't moaned about how much water leaks out. Sliding door all the way or a flapper at the minimum.

I prefer plain glass.

Fluted glass is very trendy so my bathroom designer DIL tells me.
Not sure what you mean by flapper screen I have a very, very expensive Vernon Tutbury curved, folding, over bath shower screen with a white rubber seal. It's been there for 25 years, doesn't leak, still looks as good as the day it was installed by my DH and there has never been a trace of mould on it.
That horrible clear/opaque rubber seal either goes black or orange and is very nasty.

I've been googling flapper screen and not sure what it is? Does it mean one with a hinge so it moves like a door?

I have a fluted glass hinged internal door. I cannot it imagine it getting wet. Nightmare! Water will go into all the concave fluting bits. That silicon seal will harbour so much nastiness. Don’t do it.

Maybe try frosted? Or half frosted? Or coloured? or just hang your towels on the back of clear glass!

I had a ‘flapper’ panel in my previous property and thoroughly recommend. very easy to navigate round and did a good job of keeping water in.
not had fluted glass, but a quick google suggests it looks good,

We have an "open enclosure" with two glass panels and an opening, it was always a bit of a splashy nightmare but when we had the boiler replaced, the water pressure improved and it literally turned the bathroom into a wet room 🙊

Ended up fitting a flapper panel (I didn't know they were called that) and it's about 80% better. So yeah, they are worthwhile. In hindsight next time I'd go for a full door.

We have a flapper panel attached to a fixed screen, it prevents a lot of water escaping and it's also really good when showering the kids as you can stand in the tray but not get soaked. Without it the screen was too small but any bigger and we wouldn't have got through the gap!

I have a fluted glass shower screen and love it. The fluted side is outside of the shower so no issues with water/ cleaning.

Thanks all, I wasn't expecting so many replies!
So it looks like votes are mainly positive for the fluted glass (don't worry onlyonekenobe, it's flat on the inside wet bit).
I'm still unsure about the flapper as there are limited (affordable) options with the fluted glass. I can see it definitely makes sense in the layout of thenewaveragebear1983, but imagine if there was no wall opposite the shower, water would still splash out of the side without the flapper.

What is at the end of the open bit of the shower? Is it going to be a problem if it gets wet? I do t think a flapper panel will make much difference in your example as the water will all splash towards the open end. It would make more sense to make the fixed glass bigger than have a flapper panel?

it will be the basin and vanity, and a mirror on the wall. I think I agree with you. I’m going to keep it simple with the largest glass we can reasonably fit and cross my fingers!

Will the fluted glass help you w ash your hinged flappers? It’s important to keep those hygienic.

@Epictantrum I have exactly this in my guest bathroom. The shower is right by the door and the screen creates a sort of corridor. I chose fluted glass for the same reason you are considering now. I have no flap though. The dimensions are 1400x80 cm.

I like clean lines so a flapper panel would spoil the visual appearance for me.

Just installing similar. You need an opening minimum of 600mm or 2 feet. We were advised to go for a very low profile tray so will be level with the floor but will minimise the water splashing out. Have a look at bathroom renovations group on Facebook to get views on flapper panels which are mixed.