Wet room bathrooms are gaining popularity as they offer a luxurious, spa-like showering experience. To create a wet room, it is essential to create a watertight environment by tanking both the floor and walls of the room to protect it from leaks. Once a watertight membrane is laid, the room can be transformed into a functional wet room.
To create an elegant wet room, start with the shower and tub, if included. Designers often place the tub against the back wall to give a focal point. Wet rooms are often designed with a shower area at the same level as the rest of the floor, with the floor often sloped to move water toward a main drain.
To create a stylish, watertight wet room, opt for porcelain tiles, add Scandi-style with wood paneling, create a fluid design to give the illusion of more space, and choose a wet room with an open-concept layout, large tub, and shower space. CCL Wetrooms has created a comprehensive guide to help you design and install a stylish, watertight wet room, revealing best practices.
In summary, wet room bathrooms are a popular choice for shower-lovers, offering a luxurious, spa-like showering experience. By incorporating a wet room into your bathroom scheme, you can enhance the overall aesthetic appeal and value of your home.
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How do you keep water from pooling in a wet room?
In order to prevent the accumulation of water in a wet room, it is essential to ensure that the floor is sloped in a direction that facilitates the flow of water towards the drain. Furthermore, any potential obstructions that could impede the water’s path must be removed. In the event of water pooling, it is imperative to promptly moisten the area to avert potential damage to the flooring or wall surfaces. The most common types of gutter and drainage systems for wet rooms are vertical and horizontal.
Is a wet room cheaper than a bathroom?
The cost of a wetroom bathroom installation in the UK is estimated to be between £4, 000 and £10, 000. Although wetrooms are a great bathroom goal, they can be expensive due to the need for complete renovation. However, once completed, they offer impressive longevity compared to typical bathrooms. When budgeting for a wetroom, prioritize essential products and processes, such as tiles, which require complete retiling of the bathroom floor for proper shower drainage. This will take up a significant portion of the budget. Therefore, it is essential to consider these costs when planning for a wetroom bathroom.
What are the disadvantages of a wet room?
Wet rooms are more expensive to install than standard bathrooms due to waterproofing preparation, installation time, damp and mould issues, and water drainage issues. However, they can be a suitable solution for elderly and disabled individuals who struggle with mobility or care for them. Before investing in a wet room, it is essential to consider the pros and cons, such as reduced costs, reduced maintenance, and improved water drainage. It is also crucial to consider the potential dampness and mold issues that may arise from the installation process.
What type of floor is best for a wet room?
Natural stone and porcelain tiles are popular for their contemporary, hardwearing finish in wet rooms. Vinyl is cost-effective and available in various colors and styles, making it a popular choice for wet room flooring outside the shower area. Rubber is durable, warm underfoot, and comes in various patterns, colors, and textures. CCL Wetrooms offers wetroom systems for timber floors, solid floors, and waterproofing membranes. The best wetroom flooring depends on the design’s needs and tastes, as there is no right answer, as the best flooring depends on individual preferences and needs.
What tiles are not suitable for wet rooms?
Porcelain, Natural Stone, or Mosaic tiles are ideal for wet room floors due to their durability. Ceramic tiles are not recommended for wet room floors, but are suitable for walls. Porcelain tiles, including large format, can be installed using an ‘envelope’ cut to follow the fall of the tray to the drain. A linear drain with a tile-able insert can create an unbroken look on the floor. Natural Stone tiles have the advantages of porcelain tiles but may require sealing to prevent water absorption.
What is the alternative to a wet room?
Walk-in showers represent a contemporary, cost-effective, and straightforward installation alternative to wet rooms. Such fixtures provide a spacious showering area that is suitable for both adults and children, thereby creating an open, visually expansive bathroom. The sleek, modern design enhances the aesthetic appeal of the bathroom, imparting a sense of sophistication and opulence. Furthermore, they are straightforward to install and offer a streamlined, contemporary aesthetic.
What is the smallest wet room design?
A small wetroom can be as small as 1. 5m x 1m, with enough space for a toilet and wash basin. The shower area should be 70cm x 70cm, allowing for mobility issues. For a luxurious wetroom, careful planning of toilets, sinks, and showers can maximize space. If a bath already features a wetroom, a walk-in shower can be added. Wetrooms are ideal for small spaces, despite social media images suggesting otherwise. With proper plumbing and drainage, many homes in the UK have adopted small wetrooms for greater convenience.
To keep water contained, a hinged or static glass partition can be used to restrict spray. When waterproofing wetrooms, at least the shower area and one meter surrounding it should be tanked, as a 1. 5m x 1m wetroom would require the entire space to be waterproofed.
What do you put on the floor of a wet room?
Wet Room Tiling, according to British Standard BS5385, is a popular choice for flooring in wet rooms due to their aesthetic appeal, ease of maintenance, and design possibilities. Textured tiles, natural stone tiles, mosaics, sandblasted or flame finishes are suitable for ensuring safety and a secure footing. CCL Wetrooms provides a comprehensive design and installation service, tailored to your project, covering all stages of the build. Contact them for more information on designing a functional wet room.
How to make a bathroom into a wet room?
In order to convert a bathroom into a wet room, it is essential to create a comprehensive design plan that includes the precise location of the shower, the dimensions of the walk-in shower, and its intended position. Furthermore, it is essential to waterproof the room, install heating, and undertake tiling in order to guarantee a comfortable and functional space.
How much space do you need for a wet room bathroom?
Wet rooms are popular bathroom renovations due to their open area that combines a tub and shower, making them ideal for roomier primary bathrooms. They require an area of at least 6′ x 6′, with a minimum of 3’x 6′ for small soaking tubs and 4′ x 7′ for larger ones. Adjacent shower floor space depends on the number of users and fixture placement, with an ideal minimum of 3′ x 6′. The location and orientation of the tub must remain accessible for both family members and cleaners.
In smaller bathrooms, leaving enough space around the tub for periodic cleaning and drying is crucial to prevent mold growth and ensure proper ventilation. Additionally, ensuring the wet room is waterproof is essential.
Where should a toilet be placed in a wet room?
In a wet room bathroom, it is crucial to consider the placement of the toilet, sinks, and vanity. A wall-mounted toilet is ideal as it prevents water from pooling and can be easily cleaned. Sinks should be kept as dry as possible and away from the shower, so wall-mounted sinks, pedestals, or console bathrooms are ideal. Wall-mounted vanity is also space-saving.
When choosing lighting, consider the room’s usage and who will be using it. If a key area is a freestanding bath, consider mood lighting or a chandelier. For a relaxed feel, opt for more ambient lighting.
In summary, a wet room bathroom should be designed with consideration for the toilet, sinks, and lighting. A wall-mounted toilet, pedestal, or console bathroom sink, or a wall-mounted vanity can save space and provide a comfortable experience. Additionally, lighting should be chosen based on the room’s usage and the desired atmosphere.
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Thanks Liam and Sebastian for making our dream come true! I love how we technically reduced the bathroom size when closed off the closet wall but ended up with a bigger bathroom! Pushes every sqft to its maximum potential. ❤ Kudos to Liam and Sebastian for going above and beyond!! Reclaiming the dead space and all the mitre corners makes the Wet Room shine!! This wet room wouldn’t look the same if that wall is 18 inches thicker with floor to ceiling edge trim on the outside corner. Amazing working experience with Liam and Sebastian. Would not think twice if we have any future projects! Highly recommend Liam and Sebastian for anyone in the area looking to renovate!
Warms my heart to see young people from my generation doing quality work with their hands, making stuff that people will use and enjoy for years to come. Well spoken narration too! If more of today’s young people put their heads down and worked hard like you are, there’d be a lot less of the mess we see in our young generations now. Keep up the great work! 🤝
Another beautiful project finished! I love the relief cuts on the large format tiles to make the pitch. That requires advanced skills to pull off. I also love all those mitre cuts especially around the window. And your epoxy skills are perfect now. Those edges look so clean cut and sleek. I love that you are so detailed and don’t cut corners such as doing the flood test and taping every corner of the finished floor tiles to protect every inch of the flooring. I also love the new profile you used to fit the glass in and making the finish look so nice and clean cut. That’s an amazing idea interms of design. I just love everything that you do and it’s so satisfying to watch someone do a perfect job. I’m also very happy that you are now using the Kerdi Boards instead of the membranes. Your skills are exceedingly high and easily enough to do a project on a multi million dollar luxury home. Just keep doing what you’re doing. Excellent job!!! By the way, your labour cost is still way below the cost of what you should and could be charging considering the level of quality you are delivering. You get a LIKE!
As a Home Designer who’s drawn up more of these projects than I can count, I love the inside look at all the troubling details you run into when doing something as simple as ‘curbless’ wet rooms. Wonderful work Wolkon! I also like seeing some of the details of LED lighting in niches. I’ve got to steal that one. 🙂 Then there is the medicine cabinet mirrors mounted proud of the wall with the hidden LED down task lighting on the vanity counter. Great idea there also as it brings that mirror closer to the user. I’d be interested to hear PChen1126’s comment on how they like it. Only thing I don’t like are those trendy freestanding tubs. How the heck to you clean out the backside and corners?
Canadian here, after waiting for 3/4 of a year because everyone’s so booked and busy, finally in the process of having a old house bathroom redone. Quite a headache thus far, fining good contractors who have guys lined up to do plumbing/electrical, etc. You do great work, we need more like you who take pride in your work as its severely lacking in Canada at the moment and I’m sure elsewhere in the world as well.
Holy freakin smokes guys!!! I think this one hits my top favorite. Liam, I’m sure you book jobs months in advance but, PLEASE,PLEASE,PLEASE try & sell a ceiling filling spout for a tub. If anyone could pull off doing one it’d be you & I’d love to see one installed. Hoping all is well guys, Dirty Jersey out!!
I wish you guys were in the UK. I would love to have you remodel my bathroom. I used to do what you do, many, many years ago. I can’t do it now because my back is ruined. I am always impressed with the quality of your work. When I did it my boss used to say “the difference between good work and great work is the little touches that most people don’t bother with.” Well you guys do ALL those little touches. I wish you great success in everything you do. It is great to see real master craftsmen for a change.
Nice work. I speak only for my self when saying, it’s my preference to indeed cap the water lines. However, I immediately re-pressurize them so that throughout the rest of the demo and rebuild if and when any lines are hit it’s known. This of course is only useful if your entire team knows precisely where the valve is. First day on the job our morning meeting includes ” everybody’s gotta watch your mouth” ” don’t throw your cigarette butts down” keep your shirt on”. Alln this while the meter in the middle our circle.
As a n experienced contractor that bath remodels accounts for about 75 percent of my work with the rest consisting of mainly repairing poorly done tile work and failures in waterproofing mainly due to improper installation / applications I was impressed by your craftsmanship and attention to detail. Cant believe they didn’t go the extra step at that point and run the heated floor especially in Canada. One thing ive yet to give in and try is peel n stick Ditra and I didn’t even see you use any primer or anything before applying it which really has me considering it now. Have you used it alot without any issues? Here in the states the peel n stick products I tend to advise my clients to avoid and with my showers I dont even give them the option to use any system other than schluter simply because its never failed me in the 10 years or so ive used it. Will check out the boots also as a die hard Red Wing user I have began noticing a decline in quality for a 300 dollar pair of boots. Nice project guys down here there is not much competition doing high quality remodels especially since the box stores stopped taking tile shower installs due to the liability they presented while using unvetted contractors leaving many customers looking for contractors. Im no longer taking on jobs that I cant complete myself and still make more than ever without the added stress of relying on help that would no show at the worst times always. In the states the labor for just the tile work alone with a curbless shower and bath floor would likely be about $8000 or more depending on location.
Okay, my disappointment came at the very end – when you mentioned USA folks were out of luck… I so value your meticulous work. Do you have anyone in the US you’d recommend? Specifically, I’m in the Northern Virginia area – my project is nearly identical to this job, and I’m ready. Really amazing – so dang impressive!!!
The bane of my existence is the “Oh we just left that in” kind of people. Had to deal with 5 layers of wall paper of different types, some water resistant meaning you can’t just soak em lose with wallpaper remover, it just doesn’t soak in one bit, some weird kind of latex spray on ground layer and patchy plaster work on a single wall. After sanding down the whole wall to bare concrete we could FINALLY get to actually doing the plaster and paint.
Do you use the Lite or Luxe version of the Fittes flush exhaust mount (looks like the Lite version)? I am wondering whether the luxe version is worth it or if the lite version is good enough? The price difference is pretty big, but you would expect that the plastic / Lite products would work fine, else they wouldn’t be made and sold. 🤷♂
30k USD? OMG. I’m doing my bathroom right now. about one and a half times the size of this one. it is not of elbow construction, but of concrete and brick. I use materials of the same price category and do everything myself. a tempered glass cabin, a corner bathtub, a double washroom, new toilet, new electricity, new pipes, new shutters, floor area 3.4m x 4m. So the total budget is 8k USD. And that 8k USD is a lot of money too. with us, the average annual salary is around 10-12 k USD. I don’t know what it costs to pay for a bathroom for 3 years. 😀 That’s why I bought my two-story 144m2 house with a 5000m2 plot. 😀 Amugymeg, if we ignore the damage, it’s a nice, precise and demanding job.
Still find it insane how american homes are built in comparison to european homes. Americans just like to put down some planks and a bigger slim plank on top and call it job well done. All in all the renovation looks great, in my opinion you could’ve added some color and not make it as sterile but it’s just my preference
Im curious about what you said at 8:05 about if it was a better shape you’d have the bath freely drain. Do you mean you’d have the bath too on a slanted floor towards the drain and not plumbed in so it would just empty onto the floor? I cant work out or picture what you meant by this. Do you have another article or project coming up where you do this? Great article. Love the creativity and craftsmanship that’s in passionate labourers work 😊
It’s such a joy to watch you work. I love the envelope cut. I think it looks esthetically beautiful. And I love that it’s functional. I want the biggest tiles possible and until I watched your website I didn’t even know it was possible. Unless I win the Powerball and could persuade you to come to Florida to do my two bathrooms, I at least know what to ask for when I finally have the shower in my bathroom done.
Nothing like having an expensive bathtub the size of a bucket to sit in. So comfortable. The bathtub in my master bath was this horrid oval thing that sits at an odd angle to drain to the left side. Totally unusable for an adult. The only people who ever bathed in it were our two babies. Whoever thought this was a good idea was an idiot. First thing I did when I remodeled was cut it into pieces with a reciprocating saw and chuck it out the window. If I could have extended the shower I would have except the window is right there. So I put down nice flooring and made something useful in its place. A bar. Who wouldn’t want a bar in their bathroom? Saves so much time. Sitting in bed reading and need a refreshing beverage? It’s right there in the next room.
The only thing I don’t like about how that bathroom looks is how that tub is installed. That tub position triggers me to no end cause its going to be super difficult to clean in between the walls and the side of the tub. A fully flushed to the wall tub that was sealed off would of been a better choice in my opinion.
Pro Tip: This article at 02:50 starts demolition of the flooring and was a major undertaking. Knowing that you are eventually removing the subflooring to expose the plumbing and hvac…1st put a tile blade on your skillsaw and cut your same 2X3 sections then retrace those with a deeper cut using a wood blade to get through the subflooring. This way you remove everything instead of layer by layer. Even if you cut too deep through framing or damage a drain or vent, you are eventually sistering the existing wood and reworking the plumbing and HVAC. No harm, no foul…just hours of time and energy saved.
Thank you for showing the price for ppl to understand how much it cost to remodeling things inside the house…. my wife always want me to do this and that but she always complains why i spent so much money on Supply 😅 now i can show her this… your price are at least 20% cheaper than in the US and very good quality work. Very Nice 😍
It’s ridiculous. Why in the US, they equate doing things correctly with LUXURY? All shower rooms should be separate, and toilets should be in their own closet. Absurd shower curtains belong in hotel rooms. And don’t get me started with the 1900’s bathtub technology, and the clueless lack of proper ventilation in kitchens. In other developed countries these are basic standards in the cheapest apartments you can find.
In the US a wetroom-style bathroom is this bespoke, ultimate luxury $$$$ project but in some of other countries it’s just a default bathroom. Like you go to Japan or something and they have these products where the whole bathroom is this unit system you can install in a day. Obviously much more limited in options with size and finishes, but dirt cheap, fast and easy to install, doesn’t need waterproofing etc. These products just don’t exist in the American market at all. Your only option is to do a totally bespoke thing like this and deal with waterproofing.
Okay, I heard your disclaimer about US folks, but what if I beg you two come do a small wet room in my Monterey CA home where we will gladly house you and feed you for the time it takes to complete? You’ll get a great coastal vacation in your off hours, and we will be the beneficiaries of your exceptional work!?! 😊
Staying in Korea right now, normally in Finland (both countries where many bathrooms are wet rooms) Growing up in Canada, can’t figure out why this type of design wouldn’t be much more commonplace. When built with modern fixtures and care, they are sooooo much nicer to use, the difference is night and day. I guess the one downside for me is if the bathroom is too small, the toilet gets wet too easily, but if you have glass like that, it’s honestly perfect bathroom design.
I love this! I have watched hundreds of DIY articles yo prepare myself to do mine all bu myself. I sell all the materials you use here and I also wanted to be educated. Super great narrative. I only wanted to ad the fold technique with the Kerdi for no tape inside corners. I would have liked a Schluter Rounded or Jolly edge. I imagine when the walls flex you might have cracking on your outside edges. ❤❤❤
Good looking product, but 40k for a bathroom is a bit ridiculous I built a half the size of this bathroom with a walk-in shower room, with a sitting bench, vanities similar to the ones shown here. The whole thing cost me 7k canadian in materials. I did most of the work myself and had the hvac and some plumbing sourced. So I paid a total of less than 10k. 40k is just too much. I live in Calgary, AB.
Well done guys. I’m going to be doing something similar with my bathroom as I want it to also be a wet room. My main curiosity was the Ditra pan as the one you used was a large one. I need one that’s more rectangular as I’m taking out a closet and extending the length of the shower. My main concern is the distance of the slope, because if it is too long, even with a recessed floor, the furthest edges will be higher than the main floor. Any recommendations would be cool and I really enjoyed the article.
Very nice looking result. Yet, we have some differences preparing the floor in Italy, it is interesting what I see. You put so many layers first, these panels, then orange panel what is it? Here we first prepare drains for concrete, then pour a heavy coating, then we use generally natural stone tiles like travertino. The decorative lighting in the shower niche, I find unnecessary and going to break with moisture, even with the protection. Anyway client’s choice !
after perusal a few of your articles of renovations, I have a feeling our bathroom was not installed correctly here in Australia….we have dry wall painted not sealed, our shower has one section that I think has swelling bc they sealed it with silicone, but not well, the toilet isn’t installed correctly and then they put silicone at the back. Makes me sad because my parents spent good money for the builders not to do a thorough job. Shame.
New one is more functional and modern, but the overall ambient is cold and uninviting, so in that regard I find the old one much more appealing, it has that warm home feeling because of colors, where the new one is like some office or restaurant… Anyway that is up to the owners I guess, the job done is great and pleasing to watch even here across the lake where we build our houses differently. Cheers
I wish i could find workmanship like that in the UK. Great job guys. My only issue is that the bath looks tiny – very smalland the shower being on the left wall. Why not have it on the same face as the bath and extend the shelf toward the left? That way u not only get a better, longer shelf the water goes straight onto the glass rather than the floor.
When it is time to clean your shower area with a tub included “DON’t. call me” this is a bad idea if you are the one to keep this area clean. Not only would you have to clean the shower but the tub as well. I would never put these two together because you’re either going to use the shower or the tub, with this they both get dirty.