Walk-in shower, please advise

2019-01-27 23:35:55

A bit off-topic, but: what exactly makes a walk-in shower a walk-in shower? The floor-level design, the omission of the shower tray (which also exists in ultra-flat versions, and tiled showers can also have differences in height) or the missing door? Or a combination? Hopefully, you can enter any shower, even models that can be repurposed as a children's bathtub. By the way, I don't like doorless showers; I feel uncomfortable, watched, and unprotected in them.

2019-01-27 23:52:11

Or how would you divide up this bathroom? Everything is still freely plannable. The door can also be moved to the side.

It may well be that we are already too fixed in our perspective.

If I were you, I would download a bathroom planner from the web (e.g. from Villeroy & Boch) and optimize the bathroom with exact measurements. One could – as a quick idea – move the door to get different wall surfaces.
Maybe the window can also be moved? It is always advisable to have the shower wall at 1.50, then you have few splashes even without a door. Ideally, even longer.
If you plan the shower as it is currently drawn, with 60 passage you get 80 or 90 partition length – then you might as well skip these 50 cm and plan a normal 100 x 100 shower between two walls and a shower door.
(70 should be the passage width, though)
When you ask in this forum, it is always beneficial to also mention how many people use the bathroom, mark measurements, what can be flexible, why the drain is planned where it is, etc.

Then you might get added value in the answer, as the reply can come with a sketch right away

Measurements and everything else... the door is clarified anyway

2019-01-28 10:34:29

A bit off-topic, but: what exactly makes a walk-in shower a walk-in shower? The level floor, the omission of the shower tray (which also exists in ultra-flat versions, and tiled showers also have height differences), or the absence of a door? Or a combination? Hopefully you can enter any shower, even models that can be repurposed as a children's bathtub. By the way, I don’t like doorless showers, I feel uncomfortable, observed, and unprotected in them.

No, a real walk-in shower has zero barriers. Zero. No threshold, no door, nothing. It is suitable for showering even when I am old, walk with difficulty, have to shower sitting down, or need assistance drying off. That is the purpose of it for us. Karsten

2019-01-30 17:24:47

What spontaneously comes to mind:

I would have the radiator placed next to the door (warm towels ) within arm's reach of the sink and then the window more towards the toilet. The window can probably be cleaned better there than half over the bathtub

2019-01-31 13:18:07

Here is the excerpt from our work plan: (The width of the WC niche is about 1m, the dimension is noted somewhere outside on the plan.)

The length of the splash guard wall is therefore about 1.40m, the other one according to the plan 1.16m. We thought about it forever, measured, and consulted. Conclusion: there will probably be minimal splashing. But a narrower WC niche, narrower shower entrance, or redesigning the whole house were also not options.

2019-01-31 22:07:00

We have the variant as in your architect's design but 10 cm longer. The passage is 70 cm, the wall at the bottom of the plan is therefore 90 and the one on the left side of the plan is 100 (or 110, so that it aligns with the other wall at the front). Without a door. Walls are 2 m high. Drywall construction was a bit tricky to make the walls stand stable.

I find it perfect. The 10 drops that sometimes land in front of the passage are quickly wiped away with the bath towel.

There is no draft either! Because during the shower the whole room warms up, not just the enclosed shower. That is really unproblematic.

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Walk-in shower, please advise

Kekse

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Mottenhausen

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