Anyone have a wet room for their main bathroom?

Does this mean no bath if you have the wet room? I like them and they are very popular in Australia. If you have on you must get a professional as it must be sealed properly and watertight especially if upstairs, which I am guessing it is.

I asked for a wet room but didn't get one. I'd definitely live one bit only put in by someone who's done them before - I hear about problems with them being watertight.

I don't think a bath would work in there, I think it's an either / or situation.

Hard to give up a bath permanently. Also think if you ever want to sell. Such a silly small thing but could put buyers off.

Secretly hope you do it though so I can see photos. [greenwithenvy]

Is it the only bathroom?

The parentals have a wet room for an en suite, which works really well. However they also have a traditional bath, sink, shower and loo in a family bathroom.

I think I would be put off a house if it didn't have a bath at all, if only whilst thinking ahead to bathing sprogs.

We have a wet room in our house, as it was my grandparents house, it was altered to accommodate their disabilities. I love it - no more cleaning the bath, or slipping in the bath. We have shower curtains which are suspeded from the ceiling and a special fan to extract the moisture from the room.

If I was viewing a house with a wet room, it wouldn't put me off - I no no-one now who has the time or the inclination for a bath, it's just taking up space in my opinion. Washing the dogs is easier too, as if they shake themsevles or run around it doesn't matter, it's all sealed.

The only problem is that the green "bobbled" floor murders mops when you clean it, we only seem to get 2 or 3 uses out of a mop.

I'm in work at the mo, but will post pics this afternoon when I'm home, if you like?

We turned down a few rental properties because they only had a wet room. I like the idea, but not as the only option. Our pups run wherever they like in the house and we hate having doors closed, unless we're on the loo obviously!, so we would end up with wet dog smell all over the house.

In our Singapore honeymoon hotel, there was a bath and wet room style shower area, all fairly compact and not in a conformation I'd seen before. Imagine looking at the long wall of a bathroom - bath on left, lengthwise along wall, tap end at left, then floor space to right of bath was the shower area, with wall on right. A glass screen pulled along a rail to either screen the end of the bath or enclose the shower area. It worked really well. Obviously, it didn't matter that one side of the shower area was open as it was only into the bath.

Not sure I've described it well, will look for pics.

Have to say I'd never buy a house that didn't have abath. In my time I have rejected several perfectly nice (otherwise) properties as they were "shower only" and would feel the same about a wet room.

Practical qu - how do you keep towels/loo roll etc dry in a wet room? Surely the proximity of the moisture pervades all things?

this but also, wet room with kiddies i dont see as being a good idea? so if you are considering mini mes then id say no to a wet room!

It doesn't in ours, we have this special fan (it does have a proper technical name, but I can't remember it) which we switch on before our showers and leave on for a bit afterwards - it removes the moisture from the room. I've never found our towels or loo rolls soggy (unless H has dumped his wet towels on top of the clean ones).

MrsC as Flow mentioned, it will become a nightmare with no bath for sprogletts. My friend recently had a baby and is really struggling without a bath. Its a lovely idea, but i dont think practically would work with future plans.

I wouldn't want to get rid of a bath completely. My sister's two kids grew up with only a shower and it was a nightmare!!

Bathroom is currently a normal 3 bed semi - but with a separate loo. We plan to knock the two rooms together and move the door to make it bigger. The bathroom is currently 2.2m x 1.6m without the loo space (this probably makes no sense!!!).

Seen these images of the kind of thing I mean. Just not sure the space is big enough. Might have to just have the bath and have the luxury shower put in the loft if we ever extend up there.

This is all premature as we are still in sale negotiations!!!

These are lovely. I think I'd prefer not step in the first one. It seems a bit pointless and is just something to stub your toe on when showering. The second one, I would have to have a slight step down into the shower, or at least a slant, because having a totally wet bathroom floor would do my head in.

The second was my preferred choice. I think if there is a low rise tray and the bath and windowsills are sealed well / fully tiled it should be ok.

Will be my first bathroom with a window in 4 years!!

Rough sketch of plan!

It looks good. By knocking through to the toilet, you have plenty of room for turning the bath round.

I think there should be just... the room as it is is 1600mm, a standard bath is about 1700mm and we still need to be able to open the door!!

Also, if space is an issue and you can't fit both in, we just had our bathroom refurbushed and put in a showerbath. You know, one of those P shaped baths so one end of the bath is more spacious like a shower cubicle, but we still have a full sized bath.

We sort of have one of these now... it's an option.

Could the door not open out into the hallway? Most separate toilets or small downstairs bathrooms that I've seen do it.

I don't think that would be very safe, the stairs would come up right in front of the door.

Wouldn't want to open it and send someone flying back down!!!

A sliding door might be an option though???

ive never found a sliding door that seems private and stable IYGWIM?

Yeh definitely not a good idea then!

Probably the more expensive ones!!

http://www.pocketdoors.co.uk/unico_sd.htm

I have as much as I can, the floor plan I have only has measurements for the main bathroom, not the loo bit so I don't know how big the finished room will be.

Not sure if this would work but could you knock an arch in to separate toilet room so it faces into main bathroom and tile that out as separate wet room? Move the toilet into main part of bathroom? So you have a walk in large shower?

That could be an idea, not sure how easy moving the loo will be though?

These are all great ideas though ladies, thank you!!!

We totally re-modelled our bathroom last year and we moved everything around- including the loo. It should be ok to move it, but I think you normally need it to be near an external wall for the waste to flush away properly.

We wanted a wet room, but we also wanted under floor heating so were advised against it. Instead we have a double low profile shower tray, and a double shower screen, so it looks like a wet room but isn't technically.

We live in a duplex and our toilet is internal, has no external walls at all, so I dont think this is always the case.

That was my thinking. Mr C is good at DIY and completely re-fitted our current bathroom but we just put everything where the previous stuff was so no major pipework involved...

Ooooh! Does this mean you've found a buyer Mrs C?

Possibly... we have an injtial offer and are in negotiations...