What do I need to make a wetroom?

Depending on the design and construction option you would like for your wetroom or shower room, you will need to different key elements. Most importantly you will need a plumber who has experience with wet room installations and maybe even a good builder to prep/construct the floors and walls prior to the wetroom installation. 

• Drainage / Shower Drain
• Flooring sloping towards the Shower Drain
• Effective Water proofing / Tanking
• Sufficient Ventilation
• Shower / Shower valve and head
• Shower Screen (optional)

Drainage is required to take the water away to your sewer / drainage system in a safe manner. The location of the drain is best suited in the middle of the showering area and in the lowest point of the room so the water runs toward the drain. The easiest way to achieve a sloped floor is with a preformed wetroom floor.

 

Preformed wetroom floors  normally come as a kit and contain a drainage solution and everything you need to make the perfect wetroom floor, apart from the floor joists and final decorative tiles. These kits are similar to a shower tray but can be tiled over. Preformed wetroom floors can come as a floor to be sunk into your existing floor or sit onto you our floor as a step. Preformed wetroom tray kits are best located in the showering area where you wish to stand when showering, this gives optimum drainage. We offer a range of preformed wetroom floors. Please see your wetroom section for kits by Abacus and Roman

 

 

 

Effective Water proofing / Tanking is required to keep the water from your shower within your wetroom and not in the rooms below or either side and to protect your building structure. For more on tanking see our section on wetroom tanking.

 

 

 

Sufficient Ventilation is required to remove steam and condensation from our wetroom. This help to protect agaist damp and mould within your wetroom and protect electrical equipments and appliances within your wetroom or shower room, ie lighting, electric mirrors, electric towel rails.

You will also require a shower and shower head, this is obvious to what you need it but comes in many forms and options, from wall mounted shower heads and rails to a ceiling mounted drench / waterfall heads. Shower heads are best placed over any preformed wetroom floor you have for the best drainage.

 

Many wetrooms are located within a bathroom with along other fixtures and fittings. To stop other items like your toilet, bathroom furniture or towels getting wet when you shower in your wet room a wetroom shower screen is an option. In a similar way to a regular shower screen a wetroom shower screen helps contain splashing water in the showering area. If your wetroom is going to be purely a wetroom / shower room or you have ample space between the showering area and the nearest fixture then a wetroom screen may not be required or alternatively build from glass tiles or as a wall and tanked and tiled to match the wetroom.