Has anyone got a wetroom that doesn't leak...

[lalalonglegs]

... and if so, did you use a specialist company or a specialist system? I'm trying to work out the world's smallest bathroom in a top floor flat - I can't risk leaks .

I would use a specialist company. They need to line the room in waterproof board - brand name Wedi Board although there are others - and seal it properly, then tile, then seal all tile joints again.

Are you totally sure you can't use a tray under the shower? I'd be really worried about a wetroom anywhere other than a ground floor...especially if you are above other flats..

You can get wet room trays that sit in the floor to give the correct falls, you then put your floor covering over them. There are a few makes. I would make sure you used somebody who had done this type of work before & could give references that you could check. We regularly put in wet room ensuites for clients (mainly in care homes) last year we completed well over 200 - with only one leak (which was an incorrectly fitted toilet). I'm currently designing a building with 130 of them in it alone & we put them in refurbishments & extensions as well as rebuilds. You just need to make sure you use somebody who actually knows what they are doing. Best way to check this is to ask to see or at least speak to satisfied customers.

oooh, wonkeylegs, do you work in south west London ?

We can't use a conventional shower as the flat is tiny and the only way we can get a shower in at all is to have it as part of a large loo and you will have to walk across the shower area to reach sink and w/c.

Sorry I'm an architect in the NE and most of the companies that have worked for my clients are in the NE, NW or midlands.
I know what you mean though I've just designed an absolutely minute ensuite shower room for a client as it was the only way to squeeze a shower into their house.
I used a sliding pocket door to save space and it's in very light colours to make it feel spacious but not all White which would be a bit like being in a clinical shower.
Something like this www.pureadhesion.co.uk/marmox-showerlay-900x900x20mm-wetroom-shower-base.html means you can fit them with the right falls to the drain which is the most common thing for installers to get wrong. Experienced installers don't always use them as they can get the falls right in the floor screed but generally it's easier to make sure they've done it right if they use one

wonky - I'm still in shock. I emailed a London wetroom specialist this afternoon and he said that it would cost 6k WITHOUT any "extras" (heating, sockets etc). I am going to have to rethink design and have an entrance off the bedroom rather than off the hall with a conventional shower tray.

That is a lot of money.

I want to fit a wet room downstairs, with a view to being able to hose down vomiting drunken teenagers or infirm elderly parents, or, myself!

Anyone got some handy hints about what to have fitted?

For instance - can any old builder fit them with one of these preformed bases?
Or, is it only sensible to pay the money and get a specialist in?

We just had a wetroom installed upstairs, bit worried about leaks after reading this thread... Its an Impey, came as a whole kit, no probs so far though...