In a story-and-a-half under-roof situation, I have available only so much space, and am trying out the geometry for a shower “room.” Forgive the nudity. She was the first thing that caught my eye when I went to the Google 3D Warehouse.
Dimensions are shown. Does it look adequate? Can I do it as a steam shower, by making the door completely cover the opening?
Does the bench look OK, at its width of about 32 inches?
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For a standard shower it looks plenty good, as for steam, Ive never worked with them.
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If you do it as steam you will need to slope the ceiling and lay the tile on the bias up there so the condensation will run down the wall rather than drip on your girlfriends back. I like the size but that inside corner next to the BJ bench is hard to flash unless you use a schluter kit which is probably the best way to proiceed anyway.
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That's the size of my master shower and if anything it's too big..
One suggestion though?
Have an overhead rain shower and a body shower with the ability to select between the two. The rain shower works like any other shower but a body shower comes out about at shoulder height so people can shower without getting their hair wet..
Women love it! a shower turns from a hair drying, styling, combing, and etc session to a quick rinse off without ruining their hair and having to dry it etc.. Hair doesn't need daily showers and in fact is better off without them..
It's a simple plumbing exercise if you don't know how..
Looks fine. In the navy the showers were much smaller than that.
With a bench I'd recommend a handheld shower head, and make sure it's mounted as high up as possible. Having to duck to get under a showerhead like in hotels is annoying.
For a plain-jane shower that's plenty big. 30x30 is about the smallest practical shower (though I've been in smaller -- gotta suck in your gut to turn around). We have a 3x4 nominal that is plenty for one person (and not terribly tight for two).
Dunno about the steam thing.
Do consider the placement of the shower head and how it will impinge on things. Placed a little to the left (which the wall angle makes you want to do anyway) so that the head angles away from the door slightly might be worth considering. Also, consult with the future user re shower head height -- IMO (and that of my wife) most shower heads are positioned too high.
Floor dimensions look fine, so does the cyber gal. Your floor dimensions are generous. Code minimum is 30" square, recommended minimum is 36" square. My master shower is 5' by 8' with a 3' wide 2-shelved niche, plenty big with no complaints.
Not sure how your clipped ceiling plays out height-wise, but code requires a minimum 80" high ceiling above the 30" by 30" floor area centered in front of the shower head. That's from the finished tile surface, not the subfloor, so don't forget the couple of inches you'll lose due to the preslope. Not sure if your sloped ceiling intrudes into that area or if your code man even knows that part of the code or cares, but I thought I'd throw that out.
If you want it as a steam shower you can get a gasketed door. The steam nozzle can exit under the bench, it's a good "no touch" location. You can even enclose the area under the bench and put the steam generator there, it's a good place to hide it.
With steam you want all surfaces tiled or stoned or glassed or covered with some sort of water-impervious material, even the ceiling. Some codes require the ceiling to be sloped a minimum of 2" per foot, in other areas it's not a code requirement. The slope is to allow condensate to run down the slope of the ceiling and then down the wall, instead of having cold droplets of condensate raining down on the bather. With a minimally sloped ceiling and over-sponged grout joints, the droplets might still get hung up on the grout line and drip despite the slope. So try to keep the ceiling grout flush with the surface of the tile.
I didsteam showers with Kerdi on all sides of the cube.