Wetrooms

[Elllie]

I am considering having a wet room in our new house and wondered if any of you had changed your bathroom to a wet room. How much did it cost? Who installed it for you- one company or a mix of plumbers and builders? Can any bathroom be made into a wet room? Thanks!!!!

Don' t ask me, I've gone on holiday for 3 weeks having arranged new bathrooms to be completed upon my return.........half a bathroom later. You honestly don't want my advice!

Plumbers can plumb, tilers can tile, electricians can blow themselves up for all I care, and joiners can join.

The one thing they cannot do is communicate between themselves. So my advice would be to get one company to do the whole damn thing........and buy a bottle of gin while its happening.

Oh no! Hope it all works out

upstairs bathrooms with wooden floors pose some problems thouh can still be made water tight using the right kinds of boards (although, if laid over floorboard there is always the potential for movement).

downstairs bathrooms with concrete floors are ideal candidates.

agree single installer is best way (mine was installed by only my Mum,Dad and DH...there were still breakdowns in comunication!)

IME it's more expensive by far to get one company to do the lot, but the benefit is that the buck stops with one person. You don't get tied in knots trying to decide whose fault something is, and trying to co-ordinate several tradespeople who only care about themselves, and their 'leg' of the job.

Oh dear. I skim-read that as 'never stopped leaking poo into my downstairs neighbour's kitchen.'

I dont think British homes are really designed to accommodate wet rooms.
WHy not get a minimal shower enclosure instead, like this one

www.oceanbathrooms.com/blog/featured/matki-eauzone-plus-showers/

no don't
my downstairs (and indeed only) bathroom is a wetroom. as herbietea says, the floor is usually enough to wet socks, hems

oh yes and I found a mahoosive slug on the wall one day, it was nearly a foot long and must have crawled up the floor drain

Ok, so after hearing this - I've had a major rethink!!! Thanks for sharing your experiences! Pannacotta - thanks for the link, that is just the thing I'm looking for. I love the look of wet rooms, so perhaps that is the answer (how on earth does it work, though, the shower floor looks completely flat?!). Or perhaps I could recess a normal shower tray into the floor.

I am getting a 800 x 1200 low profile tray and a wetroom screen from plumbworld. £300 odd the pair.

Long-time lurker, first time poster. Delurking because I'm about to start on a property project and also to agree that a wetroom is really really over-rated. I remember being so happy the day it was installed and so disillusioned one week later when picking up washing loads of sodden towels. The thing is they are just that: WET WET WET. We had a shower tray installed beneath - don't know if that helps.

Anyway, despite it being a PITA when you have one, when you sell your home, they are definitely a selling point. So if you are moving in 6 months then get one and let the vendor deal with the consequences.