Shower flapper panel

[WeAreTheHeroes]

We're looking to have a separate walk in shower put in as part of a new bathroom. The bathroom design has a flapper panel to the rear of the long side fixed glass shower screen. The short end of the shower has no screen.

Is it worth having the flapper panel and do they actually work? The shower controls can be reached from the short, open end. TIA.

How big is the shower tray?

It's 1500mm x 900mm. The design is for a fixed rainfall shower head and a riser rail with shower spray.

I’ve got a 1500x900 tray, tiled on 3 sides with a 1000mm glass panel and 300mm flapper panel. I would say it is worth it as I can angle the flapper slightly to stop any spray.

However, you sound like you have the long glass panel and an open short side so I don’t know how effective that would be. I manage to get spray all over the tiles on the short end of my shower.

Thanks for that. I have no experience of flapper panels at all, but the bathroom fitters seem to think it's necessary and will work.

We have one, the shower is over a 1200x900 tray, there's a fixed and a flapper along the long side, all other sides are walls and the shower head is above the fixed end. The flapper is essential to prevent spray going out but allow us to get into the shower
If you have a wet room you probably don't need one, but if you need to keep most of the spray inside then it's useful.
In your case I'd probably just have a longer fixed panel as you will presumably get in the open short end.
My tip is draw everything on the ground and"try it out" as best you can to get the layout.

Thanks. I wondered about just having a fixed screen the whole length of the shower. The issue is the the short end is right by the door to the bathroom so not really somewhere you'd want to put a bathmat as the door would catch on it unless you moved it afterwards. I would, but DP would forget and it'd end up snagged on the door. It will feel better to step out of the shower into the main part of the bathroom rather than by the door I think. No real need to draw things out as the shower is going where the loo is currently - we're knocking loo and bathroom together - and moving the hot water cylinder so you can easily see what is going where. DP has already taken most of the wall between what we're separate rooms down and we've had a new door frame, etc fitted and moved the door.

You hope bathroom designers and fitters know what they're doing, but some are better than others so we just wanted to understand whether the flipper panel was worth it and I think it will be.