Hello all,
I am working on the deisgn for a master bathroom project and I have encountered an issue that is new to me. My client would like a walk-in shower without any sort of door. Clearly this shower will have to be big enough that water will not splash out the door! Has anyone built a shower like this? How far from the showerhead was the door opening?
The shower will be tile, mud base, kerdi.
Thanks,
Matt
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Matt, read up on this grand walk-in shower Mongo recently finished.
http://forums.taunton.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=tp-breaktime&msg=86714.1&maxT=13
and welcome to BT.
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Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
http://www.quittintime.com/
I've done several. Take a shower in one every night.
Don't aim shower head(s) at the walk-in area.
Low flow heads have smaller droplets with less inertia; don't splatter as far.
Raise the shower head; makes the flow path more down than out.
Forrest
Yeah, the most important thing is where the shower head is and where it's aimed. Also important to consider how water will splash off the occupant.
It helps a lot if at least a section of the floor outside the shower is "water tolerant" -- tile with a floor drain.
I also shower daily in a doorless shower. The shower is 3 ft x 6 ft with the shower head on one of the short walls and the door opening on a long wall, as far as possible from the shower head.
It works great, and it's nice not to have a door to clean.
There is a curb at the doorway. The bathroom has a wood floor, and I have no worries. The only water that leaves the shower is tracked out on our feet.
Allen
I have not built any such showers, but I have used many.
Most of them have had a "normal' layout, and have measured about 5 ft square inside. The secret has been that the floor was a gentle slope, expending well into the rest of the room. Indeed, there was never any visible transition from one floor to another. Any spray was free to drain back into the shower. In essence, the entire floor was the "shower pan".
My wife and I designed this: (sorry but I can't post a picture, but if interested, draw the outline and you'll see what I'm talking about, or give me your e-mail and I'll e-mail a photo)
4 x 6 foot rectangle projecting into the room, with only the North wall entirely full height, attached to the building wall. South wall is about 52 inches high. Each corner is clipped, so that in effect there are 8 sides, but the corner walls are only about a foot long on the corners. East wall is full height for the end attached to the North wall, and the 52 inch height for the SE corner. The west wall is similarly full height for the end attached to the north wall, but there is a 2 foot wide opening with a 4 inch curb and then the 52 inch height at the SW corner.
There are two shower heads, one on the NW corner and one on the NE corner, both aiming toward the middle of the shower space. The showerhead near the door is less than a foot from the opening, but directed away from it. The controls are on the north wall (make sure you can reach both from outside). The whole shower is tiled up to the ceiling. The bathroom floor is bamboo. It gets a bit of spray, but no more than any floor next to a tub or shower gets.
Those of a certain age remember this early environmental bumper sticker: "Save water, shower with a friend."