Bathroom walk in shower help

aylithuk

Looking for a bit of help/advice 

Doing a bathroom reno and getting some quotes in. 

Unfortunately, I have a rather large bulkhead which is currently a cupboard. Originally, I wanted to get that remove and put a shower there but that is not possible. 

As I don’t want a bath/shower combo any longer, I am tearing the bath out and replace with a modern walk in shower. 

I want a shower tray that is flush to floor so I don’t need to step into it. 

Is this shower tray called anything special? and I sorry, feel silly for asking, how to I measure for the tray? 

Here are couple of photos to give you an idea of what I am working with area wise 

https://ibb.co/7Ynvw3b

https://ibb.co/48VFHXH

greatcrested

Get a tray the full length of that window wall ie replacing the bath.

Then a side wall half that length - no need for a door. Step onto the tray at one end and walk up towards the shower at the other end.

Put a pull-down seat in - nice to have option of sitting down!

You want a low profile shower tray. Depends a bit what you floor is and how the plumbing will fit beneath it.

https://www.plumbworld.co.uk/low-profile-shower-trays-703-0000

Doozergirl

Is that your soil stack in the boxing? 

If you do as greatcrested says, I would rip out that existing boxing and refit it to form
the half-length wall so that the studwork used to create it sits flush with the pipe; the plasterboard skims over the surface of pipe because the studwork sits either side of it in the direction your wall is travelling.  

I'm probably not explaining it very well, but we do it all the time to create a bit more space in a room.  You box to the pipe, not around it with gaps. 

Mutton_Geoff

I don't like building wet rooms on timber floors so for my ensuite, I used a low profile tray and then added a layer of 18mm WBP to the floor outside of the tray, then tiled that so the total floor build up leaves the shower tray almost flush with the tiled floor.

Emmia

We have a shower with a gap to allow entry/exit - which has a mosaic tiled base - the only downside is that water escapes from the shower in use, and needs to be squeegeed off the floor after every shower - depending on how flexible you are, that may or may not be ok.

aylithuk

Thanks all
That is all really help especially what you said @Emmia about the water escaping. 

aylithuk

@Doozergirl @greatcrested
sorry. Do you mean rather than having having a shower screen have a stud wall instead with the soil pipe built into it?

Doozergirl

Exactly that