showering next to a window

Grimbal

Ok, so apart from the obvious voyeuristic problems, we would like to minimise water damage to the window sill and area.

We're hopefully installing a bathroom in one of our spare bedrooms, and the only way the room works is if we place the bath next to the window. This bathroom will only be used by the occasional guest, but I'm still worried that spray from the shower will be a problem. Apart from running a shower curtain along the wall, does anyone have any bright ideas on what we can do to protect the window and window sill please?

Dan-Dan

Is there not room to run some sort of shower screen returner ? so that the shower area is completly enclosed?

Ebe_Scrooge

The window itself shouldn't be a problem as long as the frame is in good condition and maintained / painted regularly. For the sill you could tile it, using proper waterproof adhesive etc., just like you would when tiling any shower / bathroom.

Having said that, if it was painted with decent quality gloss paint and there were no cracks or anything, that would probably be enough to cope with the odd splash / spray. Generally what causes the problems is when a crack appears in the paint, allowing water to penetrate through to the wood underneath. And if it's a very small crack, you may not notice for some time, meanwhile the wood underneath is sitting there wet and quietly rotting.

But as long as you look after it, give it a proper painting initially then a quick recoat every year or whatever, that should be fine.

lisa701

Our shower is alongside the window and we just have a shower curtain. Pull curtain across when showering and window area has stayed dry for the 14 years we have lived there.

Just keep maintaining the window each year as we do with all the others and its been fine.

elliot341

try a D shaped shower enclosure if you have space. only need one wall then. its what we have

Grimbal

thanks all, reassuring to hear from you that a maintained window + occasional splash shouldn't hurt.

I may look into a shower return, but not sure how it would work in practice as the bath is such an odd shape:

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p.s. not final design, so dont worry about basin too close to bath etc

pimento

Is there room to move the bath into the diagonally opposite corner and have the lavvy and sink unit under the window?

Grimbal

I don't think so unfortunately. We tried putting it long side on the right hand wall, so you walked in on the narrow end facing towards you, but not enough clearance for the door. We then looked at rotating the bath 90 degrees, so that the long side was on the wall opposite, and you walked in on the diagonal side, but found that doesn't give enough space for the loo & basin
It seems to be a choice of suboptimal placement + furniture we like vs optimal placement but freestanding furniture which we dont like....

jellie

Does it need to be a bath, if it's only for occasional use? If not, could a shower unit go in the diagonally opposite corner and move the wc and basin to different positions?

Stooby2

Try a Google search on "waterproof window blinds". There's all sorts out there and would probably solve both issues in one go.

Grimbal

We're going to be knocking through the existing tiny bathroom & ensuite into each other, so this room to be will have the only bath on the house. A point worth raising though