She has a downstairs lavatory/shower room and would like to turn it into a steam room (keeping the wc and shower) so she asked my advice.
Apart from suggesting trying to boil a kettle of water in there I said she should post here but she's frightened of too-technical replies.
This really is a genuine question, if you're reading this, have you any ideas?
Mary
First question back is, what type of shower, DHW or electric, if the letter then that would be the first problem I suspect....
I'm sure it's do-able in principle; there are plenty of steam showers available commercially these days although I've never tried one. Have you tried googling for 'steam shower'?
David
A steam shower (cubical) is something different to a steam *room* though, for one the rooms floor will need drainage.
There's a few solutions that I am aware of Mary.
1) Turn the whole room into a wet room/ steam room. This is a fairly major undertaking because the whole thing has to be insulated and then sealed to prevent too much condensation, or the room will just chill and nothing will happen. Those that I have seen have heated, tiled walls. You need a floor drain arrangement as well.2) Turn part of the room into this by use of a shower cubicle with cover over the top.
3) Buy a shower/steam cubicle. These are more or less a packaged shower unit with plastic walls floor and ceiling on the top. They work as a shower in the obvious way, but there is then an external box, which can be placed some distance away which is basically an electric heater with slow trickle of water. The water is boiled and then enters the cubicle as fairly hot water vapour.
I'll tell her, thanks.
Mary
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Yes, it's a cold room to start with ... almost outdoors.
I think there is one.
I'll show her this post too, thanks.
Mary
If you Google using keywords "steam" "shower" and "uk", there's a bunch of them.
Hope this helps
Regards Capitol
She's peeped at this thread and done a Google but was a bit taken aback at the cost of such things ...
Her husband is a competent diy-er and she's (fairly) good at doing what she's told. I've told her to keep looking at the ng. There might be more suggestions.
I'll shuttup from here!
Mary
I don't think that this is a DIY project, Mary, in the usual sense.
To do this as a whole room thing, I reckon would be quite difficult because of a typical room size, the amount of steam (actually hot water vapour really - you don't want steam in the true sense of being at a temperature in excess of 100 degrees C.) There are issues with the surfaces and so on.
I believe that you can just by the steam generator and add to an existing shower cubicle, although really to get reasonable benefit and comfort it would need to be large enough to have at least a seat.
For all the practical reasons, if I were doing it (and I might), I would buy either a package or a suitable cubicle and a generator for it.
I know I said I'd shuttup but nobody believed me anyway so ... :-)
It's not a typical room size, it's a lavatory/shower room.
That's why the wc will stay.
I wouldn't do it at all - but they are enthusiastic gym users and enjoy the experience.
I'll make sure she sees your post though, Andy, and try to shuttup from here. I think she should respond herself! She doesn't want to be thought daft - I've told her that I'm put up with, more or less, so she should be OK ...
Mary
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