Talk to me in small words about wet rooms

[EvelynWardrobe]

I want to redo our ensuite. It's one of those triangular 'chop a corner off a bedroom' ones. I'd do away with it entirely but I think it would take value off the house. So I'd like to make it a better shape and use the space in a very cunning way to give a bit more back to the bedroom.

I'm wondering about a teeny wet room, but have the following fears:
Doesn't everything in a small wet room get soaked? Toilet seat etc? Towels hanging up?

How do you stop wet feet walking into the bedroom?

Yep pretty much

Our wetrooms don't have anything but an overhead shower - loos are separate. There is a hook on inside of the door to,hang your towel and a circular stone sink that we keep toiletries in but nothing else. We use bath mat outside the wetrooms so not trailed across the floor. We don't keep towels in wet rooms - each bedroom has space for hanging towels that are in use.

Ah, I see. I would definitely need to have a toilet and a sink in there too.

Yes I am not a wet room fan as they can look great but...everything gets wet. PIL have a couple of gorgeous ones but still, everything is wet when you go back in to put make up on, brush teeth, go to loo etc after showering.

Do not do it.

They only work really well if they are on the ground floor, have underfloor heating and if they are massive so that there is minimal splashage.

I don't think that they are well suited to the British climate TBH

You can get a glass screen to go in front of the shower to minimise slashes - so a walk in walk out shower with a screen in front

You can buy heat mats to run on separate electrical switch to heat the floor they are about £80

I'd recommend a glass screen (have a look at the Playtime range from Bathstore), a window or very good extractor fan and some very decent materials - Kerdi boards and a Ditra mat as opposed to the wet room kits you can buy online.

Our is on the first floor, we have all of the above and it's fabulous (and doesn't leak!).

Yup - having underfloor heating is the only way that makes these viable.

Also if you do it, make sure the shower tray is well sunk underneath the tiles and completely watertight so it doesn't leak into the room below.

You could maybe save space by using one of those toilets with an interfrated hand basin and then just put a screen between the shower head and the loo?

We have just built a large - ish ensuite wet room (1.2m x 3m) - but have decided not to have a toilet in - as dont need to here each other on the loo - can stroll out on to the landing instead. Could you do this for more space?

Hhm, I'm starting to think traditional en suite is the way to go, as everything getting wet would drive me insane.

It's on the ground floor, and the toilet has a standard sized waste pipe, but it's not on an external wall, so I don't know if my options for moving it are limited.

We have a small ensuite that we just converted to a wet room. It has a loo and sink in it. It also has a screen to stop splashes. The towels are quite near the shower and don't get wet at all.
Go get a bathroom designer to plan it. Wickes have a great free service.

Like this

This is our downstairs wet room. Glass panel protects everything from getting wet. Underfloor heating means the floor dries in about 10 mins. Heated towel rail. Decent bath mat. Polyflor safety (non slip) flooring which extends up the walls slightly. Mermaid board in the shower cubicle instead of tiles.

Ours is larger than it needs to be as we wanted it to be disabled-accessible.