Unusual bath/shower screen...?

nelboy_2

Greetings everybody,

Having looked around the interwebs, I am now posting here to see if any light can be thrown on a solution to a home scenario...

We moved into a new house nearly 18 months ago, and the main thing we are missing from the other house is a shower. The house is a fairly standard 1960's semi detached 3 bedroom (2 double, 1 box room)... and the bathroom is acceptable but not particularly big. The bath is attached on two walls, but aout 30cm from the top of the bath on the end wall is a nice large window - effectively meaning the bath is only really on one wall (which is along the full length of the bath).

We are looking for a shower screen that would be suitable for this arrangement - for example, a shower screen that is L shaped so as to sit over the end of the bath and also cover roughly 80cm of the length of the bath. Ideally, this would fold back to sit against the wall when not in use - although a setup where the panel over the end of the bath is fixed would also be OK.

The bath setup is similar to that in the image on this page
www [dot] showerpower [dot] co [dot] uk/product.asp?CAT_ID=137&P_ID=454
- however the window at the far end extends to across the bathing area.... so we only have 1 wall on which any sort of screen can be fixed to.

I have seen this on the internet
www [dot] vesta-bathroomsonline [dot] co [dot] uk/novellini-aurora-4-folding-over-bath-screen-3315-p.asp
- which is the closest to what we are looking for... but the price is off-putting!

We have decided against fitting a seperate shower enclosure, as this would mean losing the airing cupboard and would mean resiting the hot water tank and a lot of the plumbing for the central heating... which by the time that has been done it'd probably be cheaper to buy that 4-way screen in that last web link!

SO is there any sort of shower screen that can wrap around the corner of a bath?

scottishblondie

What about a shower curtain which goes around the whole bath? Something like this could do the trick, although I would definitely recommend using more than one ceiling support, probably one next to each bend would be better. Fair sight cheaper too

I don't know how you feel about screens vs curtains, but I've had problems with screens leaking in the past so I prefer curtains.

shandypants5

I agree with scottishblondie.
We have had several different typed of shower screen over the years (flat glass, bi folding, multifolding) and all of them were a nightmare to keep clean.

We have now gone back to a shower curtain, and as they are so cheap we just replace it every few months.

ailuro2

When I had a bath like your description I had a C shaped shower curtain rail that was bigger than your average rail, then put two shower curtains on it... and opened them like a pair of window curtains, then had tie backs for them.

nelboy_2

Thanks you everybody so far... We had a shower curtain at the previous house, and it had a tendancy to cling to skin!

But, the idea of a C shaped rail with two curtains seems interesting

jennifernil

If you fix the rail a few cm further out than the side of the bath, so that the curtain will hang at an angle when in use, it helps stop it from clinging.

It will also not tend to cling if the bathroom is nice and warm.