Wet rooms are the latest fad in creating contemporary style in the bath room. Wet rooms are a contemporary small bath room solution, offering an excellent way to open up and make efficient use of limited space. Wet rooms create a spa like ambience that fits very neatly into the modern trend in bathroom design. Increasingly popular, wet rooms look super stylish and streamlined, and can add value to your home.
A wet room is a bathroom, where the shower area is level with the surrounding floor. Design features like screens, body jets, enclosures, or walls are only aspects of bathroom design, so they do not define what is or is not a wet room. If all the appliances like the sink and the toilet are off the floor it makes the wet room even more easier to clean. As a second bathroom, a wet room can easily increase the value of your home. A wet room is basically a shower room that does away with the shower screen and tray, and has an open, fully tiled shower area.
There are some drawbacks to installing a tile wet room, however. In contemporary wet room design, wall mount sinks and toilets further economize on space, affording significant enhanced ease of maintenance. If your home does not have a second bath room, and you convert the main bath room into a wet room, it may decrease the real estate value of your home. Overall cost for an average small bathroom remodel to create a wet room will run approximately $12,500 and up.
A shower in a wet room does not need any enclosure or any separate drain. The result is a completely tanked wet room utilising products that can be applied to any existing substrate achieving a fully watertight room. This wet room bathroom is great for small spaces. A wet room design is best fitted with wall hung sanitary ware and furniture which are perfect for streamlined wet areas. Creating a wet room in your house requires a little planning but is no longer out of reach to most people.
You can now confidently transform your bathroom into a spacious, modern and stylish wet room, as the Wet-Dec system completely eliminates the potential for water leakage and costly repairs. To combat the chill factor lay low voltage under-floor heating pads over the membrane in the most appropriate wet room areas.
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