"Mark" wrote in message
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On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 11:40:24 -0000, "Uno Hoo!"
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"SilverDales" wrote in message
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Hi all, we have been doing the bathroom and we have a small dilema. We
are trying to go for a more neater cleaner look and have a new
electric
shower but are unsure over wether to have a pole and curtain or a
screen. If we have a screen it would have to be folding so that my
wife can lean over the bath to do her hair with the mixer shower. It
couldn't be a solid screen because of the position of the door, if
someone opened the door when the screen was back it would bang into
it.
But our experience with curtains is they do get dirty quickly.
any ideas?

I installed a new bathroom some seven years ago and made the decision to
fit
a 'four-fold' folding screen. It works very efficiently, and folds
neatly
back against the wall when not in use. Shower curtains are a pain in the
neck - the down-draft created by the shower spray causes the curtains to
suck in and stick to your body - and they hold the damp after the
shower.
They become mildewed after a while and just look awful. Go for a screen!

Folding screens have a downside as well. We get leaks under the
screen and water pours onto the floor. I put this down to the fact
that the base of the screen is straight and the bath is slightely
curved.

You need to position the screen carefully and make sure that the inner
side
of the screen overhangs the inside of the bath - so that water runs
straight
off the screens and into the bath - rather than down the screens and under
and over the outside edge of the bath! My four-fold screen is never
straight
when it's in use. The first screen out from the wall is angled in to meet
the inside edge of the bath.

Kev