Fixed shower screens, does too much water spash out or not?
Love the clean look of the fixed shower screen, but how practical are they?
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Comments (6)Hi, probably too late to comment now as you've already gone with someone on this project. Along the wall is the most common solution as it is easier to create falls, particularly if you have large format tiles. You will get water out of the shower given this is a just a freestanding panel, and it will also be cold in winter (speaking from experience) without a door on it. In the Australian Standards you are required to have a 'water stop' or step down to at least 5mm - most people don't do this and this is where problems can start from a waterproofing point of view. Good luck - hope it goes well...See MoreSilicone shower screen
Comments (13)Mould will grow on almost any surface - even glass, it just needs the right environmental factors - heat, humidity and a food source - body and soap fats... sorry for being yucky, but it's true, they grow mould on glass plates in a lab, so it's not surprising to find mould on any other surface - silicone etc included. There are solutions - use a mix of oil of cloves diluted - check Shannon Lush suggests:- If it's a hard surface use 1/4 teaspoon of Oil of Cloves per litre of water, put it in a spray bottle, lightly mist on and leave overnight and wipe off. In grout, remove the grout, treat the area with Tea Tree Oil and vinegar and re-grout. Same for silicone. As for Silicone and frameless glass... The problem is the different types of silicone have varying degrees of acid in them and will 'etch' the glass, causing 'fogging' between the laminated layers of laminated glass. Hence the reason for suggesting not to silicone the glass to the wall. However, as the fogging usually only comes in around 3mm to 5mm the depth of the silicone should be about that to form a proper seal. You may be able to apply the silicone - neutral cure - clear to the inside of the glass only - bit tricky and not let it get behind the glass - inside the shower itself to close the gap, alternatively, you can use a strip of aluminium to form a sealed edge - sort of defeats the purpose of frameless glass. Good Luck, Andrew Building and Pest Inspections Albury Wodonga. http://www.buildingandpestinspectionsalburywodonga.com.au/...See MoreTop of rail shower above height of shower screen? Will it look odd?
Comments (16)I am struggling to find any pictures of where someone has the shower fittings higher than their shower screen to see how odd it actually would look like. One of my 101 learnings about getting the wrong tradesperson to "project manage" my bathroom renovation (until he went MIA), was not voicing louder to the plumber's assistant who actually did the shower connections, that what the "project manager" had suggested for heights of shower connections was way too high. I had actually double-checked it on the previous weekend with a friend and we both thought that it needed to be lowered by 100-150 mm, but when I said this to the "project manager" he ignored me as did the plumber assistant who made the connections....I know how a handheld shower only (which is all I wanted) fitting that is at 2070mm in one bathroom and 2020mm in the other bathroom. As there is no shower rail (because I wanted things to look simple), I get my daily stretches just to reach the handheld shower.....I am happy with the progress of my bathroom, except for all of the stuffups caused by this particular "tradesperson/project manager". We live and learn....I can't do anything about what has happened, but can only minimise the impact where possible and learn from all the things that went wrong, if there is ever a next time. I should make a list of the learnings once bathroom is finished....See MoreIn desperate need of help to fix our ugly beige house!
Comments (24)That’s pretty much the height we were looking at going for so it’s an obvious step up and matches with the front door height. Good point about the front door we will probably install new crimsafe so you won’t be able to see any of the wood at all. Yes landscaping is the biggest thing we need but we are so clueless we just shoved plants in but it clearly didn’t work lol We will be planting along the driveway and putting in lights along it as well and there is a (very messy) hedge hiding the concrete in front of the door- which looks even worse right now because there’s marks from the hail. Our biggest problem is we live on rock and it’s such a steep incline so everything we plant grows weird or not at all I would love a beautiful lush front garden:( Is there anything we can do to the concrete to make it look nicer? If it’s painted with some kind of textured paint would that be too slippery?...See More
11 years agoAgree with Tilly above... this style of floating glass shower screen generally applies to double walk-in showers which are generally a standard of approx 1800 wide so a glass panel of 900 wide (half) would be required at the minimum... but you can go wider with a smaller opening, to give you an idea this is what we're doing in our new house, the shower head is on the far wall behind the glass panel which is 1100 wide with an opening of 700 wide (*note internal doorways are generally standards of approx 700-800)...
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I've placed a chrome pipe which hangs on suction hooks along the top of the shower door opening. I got so tired of water splashing out the gaps. I've tried everything, this works the best.
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Or if budget allows, why not have both an overhead shower rose from the ceiling and a wall mounted handheld shower head. Hubby prefers overhead shower (and I think most guys do as they don't really care if their hair gets wet) but I don't wash my hair everyday and wanted a wall mounted handheld one, so as we couldn't agree we settled for both with a diverter mixer tap. P.S. the ceiling shower rose we got can be slightly tilted and I think most of them do so you can have it at a bit of an angle. P.P.S. if you can't get both then I would go with a wall mounted handheld shower head as it will be much easier to clean the shower area, can't imagine the practicality of cleaning with an overhead... good luck! :)
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