walk-in showers

[DaveW]

The builder has a team of guys, the plumber sets the drain pipes in place through the vide sanitaire/flooring followed by the mason who lays the concrete and waterproofs it all with some wonderful blue product. Plumber comes back puts in the tray and drain fittings. Mason tiles it all with the right inclines, plumber connects all the bits and puts the toughened glass in.



It ain’t cheap but these guys are good.

[Biloute]

Have a look at Skillbuilder on YouTube also - they have done a whole series on these along with concealed cisterns etc

https://www.youtube.com/c/SkillBuilder

He uses Abacus Elements - for example see:

Thanks for this link niemeyjt ! How to spend hours and hours when winter will come ...

[RobertArthur]

La mémoire collective et le temps and how good articles slip into the sea, eventually. With thanks to Maurice Halbwachs and Jimi Hendrix. Or almost fall in the sea of digital never-never land. Saved in the last days of another forum, not TNNF, an article written by my friend Chris le Bricoleur, about the long and winding road to build a bathroom and a walk-in-shower. "The room was not really a room........"

[MAD87]

Lovely showers, Biloute and DaveW.
We had our antiquated bathroom fitted not with a walk-in bit a very shallow 120 x 80 tray which presents no problem for wrinklies. However, our (French) plumber warned us that the 'self-cleaning' glass wasn't what it said on the tin, as per his wife. Sure enough, I've tried most things on it, starting with white vinegar (normally the cure for all ills).

The only seamless process was getting a hefty crédit d'impôt for installing a wrinkly's shower!

[Blaze]

[mention]MAD87[/mention] That sounds like what we're going to do.
I've never heard of "self-cleaning" glass which sounds a bit iffy. Is there a problem cleaning the glass ? Does white vinegar work ? The crédit d'impôt bit sounds interesting and worth looking into.

[Spectrum]

We have a full "Wet room" as the DW is disabled so steps are not good, it was built correctly as I was watching them To clean the glass I use one of those green pads sponge one side abrasive the other, we used to call them "Scotch brite" a bit of fairy on it gentle rub and swill off with shower head, nice and clean.

[Doug]

@MAD87 That sounds like what we're going to do.
I've never heard of "self-cleaning" glass which sounds a bit iffy. Is there a problem cleaning the glass ? Does white vinegar work ? The crédit d'impôt bit sounds interesting and worth looking into.

When we had our roof retiled ( cost a fortune) for two skylights in the kitchen/dining room we had self cleaning Double glazing at double the normal cost, a year later it was almost impossible to see the sky through them, got to get up onto the roof to clean.
My advice never have self cleaning glass.

[Blaze]

[mention]Doug[/mention] I wouldn't touch self-cleaning glass. The cleanest campsite sanitaires I have ever seen were done with spray on/rinse off white vinegar and bleach twice a week. The sanitaires were put in in 2012 but looked as if they were done this year. However, there were no glass panels. My instinct would be to spray the glass with white vinegar, leave to react, rinse off then wipe off excess water with a squeegee. The water here is somewhere between hard and soft but glass can get chalky if not kept in check.

[Hotrodder]

I've always hated glass partitions in bathrooms. Life's too short to stress about cleaning water spots and streaks. I have built three successful showers in bathrooms without using glass panels apart from one that had a small dividing section that was half tiled and half glass bricks to allow extra light in. My minimum size is 110cm square to avoid the claustrophobic elbow bashing experience that is the norme with off the peg plastic brico affairs. No problems with drainage. One small compromise is that there was a short (100mm) upstand at the entry point to contain the water. Slope to the central drain grid was done with waterproofed concrete just high enough to cover the 40mm drain pipe on its way to the outside wall. An extraction fan with downlight from Screwfix completed the job.

[MAD87]

My instinct would be to spray the glass with white vinegar, leave to react, rinse off then wipe off excess water with a squeegee. The water here is somewhere between hard and soft but glass can get chalky if not kept in check.

I've tried that.
Spectrum - does the green side not scratch the glass? I've tried with a non-scratch 'scourer' (the dilver one - to no avail.