Wetroom vs shower tray - Cost difference

Slinky

We are replacing our shower room, which was formerly a wetroom, and going back to a bathroom. The room was installed by the previous owner. I never liked the sloping floor the wetroom required, plus it takes an age for the floor to dry so you end up with wet feet or slippers, hence why we put the shower cubicle in.  We didn't have a tiled floor, it is safety flooring. We had a complete nightmare when the basin blocked and we couldn't clear it. The plumber had to chop a hole through the tanked floor to get to the pipework. It cost us nearly £100 for the 8-9 cutter blades he used cutting a foot square hole, and nearly £500 in total to get it sorted it took so long.

GDB2222

Slinky said:

We are replacing our shower room, which was formerly a wetroom, and going back to a bathroom. The room was installed by the previous owner. I never liked the sloping floor the wetroom required, plus it takes an age for the floor to dry so you end up with wet feet or slippers, hence why we put the shower cubicle in.  We didn't have a tiled floor, it is safety flooring. We had a complete nightmare when the basin blocked and we couldn't clear it. The plumber had to chop a hole through the tanked floor to get to the pipework. It cost us nearly £100 for the 8-9 cutter blades he used cutting a foot square hole, and nearly £500 in total to get it sorted it took so long.

Might have been easier to make a hole in the ceiling underneath?

KxMx

I moved into a flat with a wet room a few months ago, about 20/30 minutes after my shower I run a dry mop over the floor inside shower curtains...
Takes 30 seconds if that and then the floor is pretty much dry.
I also have a bath mat inside the door so upon exiting after my shower it dries my feet. 

GDB2222

KxMx said:

I moved into a flat with a wet room a few months ago, about 20/30 minutes after my shower I run a dry mop over the floor inside shower curtains...
Takes 30 seconds if that and then the floor is pretty much dry.
I also have a bath mat inside the door so upon exiting after my shower it dries my feet. 

I have an ordinary shower, and I don't have to do any of that.

Brie

Social services tried to insist that MiL needed a wet room in order to safely shower.  I understood why they thought that but they then said that they would only contribute about £1k to change the bathroom and we would need do the rest.  And they had someone lined up who could do it for about £5k. 

We got a plumber in with an eye to simply taking out the bathtub and putting in a walkin shower as this seemed like a reasonable alternative to us.  The guy took the plans and equipment list from Wickes that would have cost us about £1,200 and crossed off all the bits we didn't actually need which brought the cost down to about £600.  We told him about the wet room idea and he made it clear it would have likely cost closer to £15k than £5k due to doing all the structural work to lower the floor sufficiently else the water would flow into the hall way.  

Yes a wet room would have been easier for MiL and her carer but was completely unaffordable as well as impractical in a normal home.

Slinky

GDB2222 said:

Slinky said:

We are replacing our shower room, which was formerly a wetroom, and going back to a bathroom. The room was installed by the previous owner. I never liked the sloping floor the wetroom required, plus it takes an age for the floor to dry so you end up with wet feet or slippers, hence why we put the shower cubicle in.  We didn't have a tiled floor, it is safety flooring. We had a complete nightmare when the basin blocked and we couldn't clear it. The plumber had to chop a hole through the tanked floor to get to the pipework. It cost us nearly £100 for the 8-9 cutter blades he used cutting a foot square hole, and nearly £500 in total to get it sorted it took so long.

Might have been easier to make a hole in the ceiling underneath?

With the benefit of hindsight possibly yes, but by the time we'd discovered this we'd already wrecked the flooring.

grumbler

Slinky said:

GDB2222 said:

Slinky said:

We are replacing our shower room, which was formerly a wetroom, and going back to a bathroom. The room was installed by the previous owner. I never liked the sloping floor the wetroom required, plus it takes an age for the floor to dry so you end up with wet feet or slippers, hence why we put the shower cubicle in.  We didn't have a tiled floor, it is safety flooring. We had a complete nightmare when the basin blocked and we couldn't clear it. The plumber had to chop a hole through the tanked floor to get to the pipework. It cost us nearly £100 for the 8-9 cutter blades he used cutting a foot square hole, and nearly £500 in total to get it sorted it took so long.

Might have been easier to make a hole in the ceiling underneath?

With the benefit of hindsight possibly yes, but by the time we'd discovered this we'd already wrecked the flooring.

You or the plumber? I thought it's  common knowledge for plumbers.

KxMx

GDB2222 said:

KxMx said:

I moved into a flat with a wet room a few months ago, about 20/30 minutes after my shower I run a dry mop over the floor inside shower curtains...
Takes 30 seconds if that and then the floor is pretty much dry.
I also have a bath mat inside the door so upon exiting after my shower it dries my feet. 

I have an ordinary shower, and I don't have to do any of that.

I agree with you, I was replying to the poster who said their wet room floor was always wet/ got wet feet or slippers.
I usually quote the person i'm responding to but see I neglected to do so this time

Slinky

grumbler said:

Slinky said:

GDB2222 said:

Slinky said:

We are replacing our shower room, which was formerly a wetroom, and going back to a bathroom. The room was installed by the previous owner. I never liked the sloping floor the wetroom required, plus it takes an age for the floor to dry so you end up with wet feet or slippers, hence why we put the shower cubicle in.  We didn't have a tiled floor, it is safety flooring. We had a complete nightmare when the basin blocked and we couldn't clear it. The plumber had to chop a hole through the tanked floor to get to the pipework. It cost us nearly £100 for the 8-9 cutter blades he used cutting a foot square hole, and nearly £500 in total to get it sorted it took so long.

Might have been easier to make a hole in the ceiling underneath?

With the benefit of hindsight possibly yes, but by the time we'd discovered this we'd already wrecked the flooring.

You or the plumber? I thought it's  common knowledge for plumbers.

The plumber. To be fair, we knew the flooring would have to be taken out as we're having the old shaped wetroom floor removed this year and a bath put back in to change the room back into a proper bathroom, so it wouldn't have been worth saving the bathroom floor to wreck the kitchen ceiling.

The blockage was caused by my husband using Gillette shaving gel.

Apodemus

Slinky said:

The blockage was caused by my husband using Gillette shaving gel.

That sounds a bit far-fetched.   Looking at the COSHH Data Sheet for the product, I don't see anything that is likely to cause a build-up or blockage.  Indeed it is completely water soluble.  I'm not sure who told you it was the shaving gel that was the problem, but out of the possible causes, it seems fairly low on the list...and much more easily remedied than replacing the pipe-run.