Wet room or walk-in shower for your Barking home? How they differ, what each involves, and which suits your space and budget.
A wet room is a fully waterproofed room where the shower floor is level with the rest of the floor and slopes gently to a drain, with no tray at all. A walk-in shower uses a low shower tray with a fixed glass screen, so you walk straight in, but the rest of the bathroom floor stays dry and is not part of the shower.
Wet rooms look sleek, make small bathrooms feel bigger and are excellent for accessibility, because there is no step at all. The whole floor has to be tanked and laid to a fall, which makes it a bigger job. Walk-in showers give much of the same open look with less work, and they are simpler to fit in most homes.
In Barking we fit both. Wet rooms often suit ground-floor bathrooms and anyone planning for easier access later, while walk-in showers suit upstairs bathrooms in the Becontree houses where the floor build-up for a wet room would be more involved.
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Level floor sloping to a drain. Sleek and fully accessible.
Open look with less work, and the rest of the floor stays dry.
A wet room needs the whole floor tanked. A walk-in shower needs the shower area tanked.
Wet rooms can make a small room feel much bigger.
A wet room is the best option if step-free access matters now or in future.
For accessibility and a seamless look, yes. A walk-in shower is simpler and suits most bathrooms well.
It is usually a bigger job, because the whole floor is waterproofed and laid to a fall.
Often yes, but the floor needs the right preparation. We will check.
In a wet room the floor is designed to get wet. A glass panel keeps most of the spray in.