Design of the walk-in shower

One gets even more unsettled here. Some say "Definitely gutter!", others say "No gutter at all!"

:-O

We have the Bette Flor mentioned earlier with a central drain. Even there, it quickly happens that the water accumulates. And the thing is not easy to clean nicely either. Besides the hair in the strainer, presumably soap residues also settle somewhere in the pipes because the pipes first run 80 cm towards the wall without much slope. A drain closer to the wall would certainly be better.

The advantage of the tiles is possibly the integrability of the underfloor heating.

As an alternative to the two options, tiles or enamel shower tray, there are also showers made of mineral cast.

We have the previously mentioned Bette Flor with a central drain. There, too, the water tends to accumulate quite quickly. And the thing is not easy to clean either. Besides hair in the strainer, soap residues probably also settle somewhere in the pipes for us, because the pipes first run about 80cm without much slope towards the wall. A drain near the wall would certainly be better there.

An advantage of the tiles might be the integrability of underfloor heating.

As an alternative to the two options of tiles or enamel shower trays, there are also showers made of mineral cast.

You’re right about that... Our shower drain first leads to the toilet; it’s about 2m until it goes vertically down the wall. I’ve never questioned that before.

The shower channel would then be on the far left, even further away...

Underfloor heating was not installed under the shower, probably not possible for technical reasons.

Maybe it’s also due to the design of the drain that soap residues settle there. I usually tap with both feet on the standing water at the drain. The overpressure then seems to loosen it a bit and it works better for a few days again.

After I read my post again, I noticed something:

Und schön sauber machen, lässt sich das Ding auch nicht.

That refers to the drain and not to the shower in general.

We have a trough and mosaic. What kind of wall tiles do you have? Surely not wood as well? We also have wood-look tiles on the floor, the walls are grey, with matching floor mosaic. Looks stylish. The shower in wood would have looked strange too.

On the wall: Light cream-colored.

Visually, I also like mosaic. It's purely about the maintenance effort because of the many joints. We were told that the water would then stand there and not drain properly because no tiler would be able to grout and lay it 100% perfectly.

I can also well imagine wood look on the shower floor; then everything is uniform.