Best 'premium' shower door?

ThisIsWeird

Hi all.

A friend is having their newly-bought flat done up, and will likely rent it out for a while before they move in. They are thinking it'll be a 'corporate' rentals, prob a few months at a time, and for this it'll need to have a premium finish.

The small en-suite is being fully redone for this. It's narrow, around 1.2m, and the shower at the end will be full-width. His builder has suggested going 'wet-room'-ish, so no raised tray. 

What he'd like to know is, what is the best type of shower door to fit? What thickness of glass to provide a solid, premium feel - is 8mm ok, or should he go thicker? What layout of panel and door? What style of door? Or would walk-in work with an overall width of 1.2m - say a 600mm panel and ditto gap?

Thanks.

Flugelhorn

gosh - brave going with no shower tray in a flat 

Emmia

I'd advise against no tray (had this and it leaked), we now have a low tray and two glass panels with a gap to allow access/egress... No door.

Albermarle

Our glass shower door feel quite solid and premium. I just measured it and it is 8mm thick.
I think any thicker it is going to quite heavy and possibly put a strain on the hinges/fixings ?

ThisIsWeird

Thanks all - really appreciated.

Flugel and Emmia, my sentiments exactly. I'll strongly urge a low profile tray, but his builder (a really good fellow) was telling him what folk expect with 'premium', and said he'd tank the whole floor. But, I agree with you - it's such a risk.

Thanks Albe - I'd hope the hinges would be equally beefy, and likely mounted directly to the wall, so should be solid.

8mm strikes me as being nicely adequate too, but just wondered if anyone had an opinion/awareness of what other folk might 'expect'.

Slinky

I'd never go with a wetroom again after the one we had in our house when we bought it, tanked, still leaked. Blow what 'corporate' supposedly expect. Does he honestly think that the place won't rent because people have to step up a whole inch into a low profile shower tray? Madness that I hope your friend doesn't live to regret.

ThisIsWeird

Slinky said:

I'd never go with a wetroom again after the one we had in our house when we bought it, tanked, still leaked. Blow what 'corporate' supposedly expect. Does he honestly think that the place won't rent because people have to step up a whole inch into a low profile shower tray? Madness that I hope your friend doesn't live to regret.

Thanks. I agree, and will pass on these opinions as forcefully as I can

Slinky

ThisIsWeird said:

Slinky said:

I'd never go with a wetroom again after the one we had in our house when we bought it, tanked, still leaked. Blow what 'corporate' supposedly expect. Does he honestly think that the place won't rent because people have to step up a whole inch into a low profile shower tray? Madness that I hope your friend doesn't live to regret.

Thanks. I agree, and will pass on these opinions as forcefully as I can

One thing I would recommend is to look at Aqua Dart shower screens. We bought 2 for our walk in shower, they have a coating on the screens I can only describe as miraculous. Our screens are 2 years old and they look like new. They really repel dirt and scum really easily. If I had to replace our shower, I'd go with them again. I wish we had them in our en-suite.

Another thing I'd also be careful about is flooring, tiling onto any form of board floor is a bad choice, there's always some movement with a wooden floor.

Albermarle

ThisIsWeird said:

Slinky said:

I'd never go with a wetroom again after the one we had in our house when we bought it, tanked, still leaked. Blow what 'corporate' supposedly expect. Does he honestly think that the place won't rent because people have to step up a whole inch into a low profile shower tray? Madness that I hope your friend doesn't live to regret.

Thanks. I agree, and will pass on these opinions as forcefully as I can

Over the years when I was working, I stayed in lots of hotels, in UK and in other European countries.
Usually 2 and 3 star, but sometimes they were 4 star, and very occasionally 5 star. I can only remember one with a wetroom, and that was one of the cheaper ones.

Another thing I'd also be careful about is flooring, tiling onto any form of board floor is a bad choice, there's always some movement with a wooden floor.

I can only say that our tiled floor bathroom, is on boards on top of traditional floorboards and there have been no problems. Apart from being cold underfoot in the Winter.