Shower/wet room

[tryitandsee]

I'm going to covert my upstairs loo into a wet room, taking out the existing WC. The floor being timber boards/joists etc.

I have read on the internet about a pre-formed shower tray with gully that sits flush with the timber floor (ie. remove boards, stick/nail/seal it in and then tile over complete).

Has anyone done this and was it a good way of doing the job. Or should I plywood the floor to falls with a good visqueen/plastic membrane then tiles. Or is this asking for trouble.

Any help much appreciated.

 

[Jasonb]

This system has all you need, watch the video to see whats involved.

http://www.wetroom-solutions.co.uk/

Jason

 

[solo]

upstairs wetrooms = disaster waiting to happen

 

[tryitandsee]

Thanks Jason.

That's the product I was looking at, but your suggested web site gave so much more detail, I feel more confident to tackle this wet room upstairs.

I hear what Solo is saying "disaster waiting to happen". Still I'm sure the 'women that has to be obeyed' will appreciate the risk, hard labour, not to mention cost, that will go into her latest request - "Wouldn't it be nice if we had a shower upstairs".

 

[Jasonb]

upstairs wetrooms = disaster waiting to happen

At least you will know when it starts leaking unlike one on a ground floor

Jason

 

[tryitandsee]

Jason if you are still watching what tiles would you recommend for the floor.

As the pre-formed deck is laid to falls I was going to use small mosaic tiles. Should I use ceramic tiles instead of the better looking natural (travertine) stone tiles.

The supplier of the stone tiles said that they can be sealed to stop water penetration, but I'm not sure this would be a good idea, as this wet room floor is always going to be wet/saturated.

Any thoughts on this would be much appreciated.

NB. I've laid the aqua deck system and most impressed. Does away with the shower tray way of thinking and no cheap and nasty doors.

 

[Jasonb]

Any ceramic, porcelain or glass mosaics will be fine, the 50mm ones still follow the falls but have a bit less grout to keep clean.

Stone mosaics will also be fine, any stone product needs to be sealed to stop the grout staining it, increase water absorbtion and also to intensify the colour if thats what you want. If you go for stone then use one of the Lithofin products, a bit more expensive than some but much better quality.

Travatine can be a bit open grained, go for limestone or possibly tumbled marble.

Original Style do a good rainge of stone & glass mosaics, you can download the brouchers from the above page.

Jason

 

[tryitandsee]

Having finally finished my project and being the anorak that I am, before and after photos.

http://ntlworld.photobox.co.uk/album/4449084