Three sided shower cubicles

[John Williamson]

If it stays on their shelves for more than a couple of weeks, it's not turning the stock over fast enough for their business model.

[polygonum]

Fine - of course that is entirely your choice. But I was really trying to explain why a bath is so important to so many people.

Without explanation, you would probably never be able to guess why my partner can't shower - it is nothing to do with standing/sitting or anything like that at all. At it appeared out of nowhere.

[Neil Williams]

Fair enough... the obvious one for a smallish 3 bed terrace (as it is) is I suppose the early years of a baby.

Fair enough. I can't imagine whatever it is is common though given what you say. But if I wasn't able to shower, I'd probably have to consider moving house anyway, as being 6' 4" I don't fit a normal bath usefully well and would have to move to a house with a larger bathroom for a larger bath (or I suppose knock the bathroom through into the second bedroom and extend by a foot or so).

Neil

[Martin Bonner]

Fascinating. I would have expected illness to move people from "prefer bath" to shower-only much more frequently.

[ARWadsworth]

It can also do the opposite.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Build your own..see a glaziers about how to get glass cut, and door hinges etc. Silicone teh joins after screwing together..fit seals to the door..and off you go

I did and it was 1/4 the price of the stuff SWMBO was looking at in the showrooms

[dennis]

I think you will find the opposite to be more common. there are a lot of elderly and infirmed that can't get into a bath (or more likely out of) that can sit on a shower seat and have a shower.

I was thinking of putting in a steam cabinet, you can get a two seat one that fits in about the same space as a bath. They also double as showers.

[polygonum]

Certainly it can.

[Weatherlawyer]

Put something similar to the internal glazing widely used in Russia. It's just a sliding window that fits flush to the inner wall. All you would need is a suitable pane -fixed. Perspex would do.

[Huge]

Wet rooms suck.

You poor thing.

[Derek Geldard]

SWMBO has just had a hip replacement and found having a walk in shower level with the bathroom (and no bath to act as an obstacle to have to clamber over) an absolute boon.

Generally anybody who can sit in a bath can sit on a stool (made for the purpose) in a shower. Her room in hospital had just a shower.

Derek G

[Huge]

Perhaps polygonum's SO has a hole in the top of their head?

[Tony Bryer]

Yes, I had a bike accident two years ago and was on crutches for six weeks. Walk in shower big enough to take a plastic chair was a godsend.

[Allan]

++

A few years ago, we put a shower in my Mum's house. At the time, she said "What a waste of time/money". Moving on a few years, (& her having reached the tender age of 89, and living on her own), she has begun to struggle with getting in & out of the bath, and we got her a seat for the shower and she loves it.

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[John Rumm]

Do you not suppose he might have finished it now two years later?

[newshound]

Not if he's like me he wouldn't!

[John Rumm]

you are not alone ;-)