really large shower rooms – do u freeze?
My wife and I go in many really large expensive homes ($1.5mil and up) and many have large shower rooms, like 15×15 or better. I know you have seen them.
Do you “freeze” when you take a shower in them? I have a shower stall room about 6×6 including the stall of course – it steams up fine.
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Depends on how it's heated.
I've been in enough locker rooms in my younger days & don't remeber freezing, but that was when I used to swim in the pacific ocean too. ;-)
Nah, a coupla electric space heaters and a kerosun blazing away, keeps the shrinkage to a minimun.
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The good showers have radiant heat in the floors in the walls, otherwise yah it feels like a meat locker locker in there at least if you bump up against the wall while in there.
Seriously. This has been a problem I run up against quite often. In my part of the country, radiant heat is not practical. Because refrigerated air is required, central heating and A/C systems are the norm. Though we are in the southern clims, it still gets pretty chilly here. I know, I know, to you yanks, 20 deg. above zero is a heat wave.
I have not found a ceiling mounted heater that is any larger that 1500 watts which will not warm a very large space. There are larger 240 volt wall heaters that can do the job, but wall space in a bathroom where you could put one is very limited. There is also the code problem of not having electrical devices in, around, and above such bathing facilities.
I remember one project I did about 20 years ago, that had a large bathroom. I found this commercial quartz recessed ceiling mounted heater. It worked great. The only problem was that when you turned it on it was so bright that you needed sun glasses to take a bath or go to the pot. It warmed things up though. Though no complaints, I don't conceder this a good solution and have not used it since.
Any suggestions? Thanks
Agree - I am in the South too.
30 degrees is cold to me.