Shower solution for pensioner

[ikearns]

Hi all

My father is 81 years of age and although can handle the over bath shower at the moment, I think a standard shower will be advisable in coming months.

We were looking at putting a shower cubicle in his bedroom but at the moment dont have the ability of putting a full en-suite.

The current bathroom is on the same level as / adjacent to the bedroom so using the loo is not a problem so no toilet needed.

Our issue is that putting partition walls etc to close in the shower unit will drastically reduce the size and access to the room so we have looked into buying one of these shower pods.

Does anyone have any advice to give?

We may be able to stretch to duplicating the footprint of the shower tray and then using a light partition wall to box it in.

I have searched the forum and can find some posts from 2010 which were pretty much just dropping a shower in a room but as these pods have moved on then has opinions changed?

regards

Ian

 

[ianmcd]

Build an enclosure and put a wet room floor in and just tile the walls much cheaper and much better for the elderly

 

[ikearns]

I suppose we could put a larger shower tray in and make that the full floor plan of the boxed area.

Does that constitute a wet room once the walls are tiled?

 

[ianmcd]

wet room just means that there is no shower tray and the floor area of the shower part has a drain in the floor they are great for the elderly no high steps to get over like in a shower tray

 

[ikearns]

Always been a bit nervous of putting a 'wet room' in an upstairs room.

 

[ikearns]

however a low profile shower tray might be an option!!

 

[TicklyT]

It might be worth having a look at http://www.contour-showers.co.uk/

 

[SimonH2]

Can you get underneath the floor to run a drain ?

If so then your choices are fairly flexible, if not then you have considerable restrictions. There are pumps (such as the Phlexiflow) to allow a low profile drain, but I'd recommend you avoid them if you can - expensive and noisy, and the one in the house doesn't leave the shower tray empty after use (it's adjusted right). Also one of the flow switches has failed, and the ****ing idiot, imbecile, couldn't care less fitters who installed it (for the previous owner) made then ***ing inaccessible to anyone without 5 foot long arms with 4 wrists.