Hi,

i'm looking to have two shower cubicles built in a current extension.
I want stud walls with a stone tray but with a rail for a shower
curtain rather than a glass door. How should the front be made so the
curtain can fall behind the tray and water won't run from the tray
outside the cubicle?

I'm planning to use aqua panel and tiles within the cubicle.


A

anon wrote:

i'm looking to have two shower cubicles built in a current extension.
I want stud walls with a stone tray but with a rail for a shower
curtain rather than a glass door. How should the front be made so the
curtain can fall behind the tray and water won't run from the tray
outside the cubicle?


Why on earth would anyone use a curtain on a shower cubicle? That's just
nasty. They're bad enough on baths...


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Grunff

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"anon" says...
Hi,

i'm looking to have two shower cubicles built in a current extension.
I want stud walls with a stone tray but with a rail for a shower
curtain rather than a glass door. How should the front be made so the
curtain can fall behind the tray and water won't run from the tray
outside the cubicle?

Stick a gutter around the bottom so it doesn't matter?

Because the water is so hard around here it stains glass panels.
Previous shower screens have become stained very quickly despite our
best efforts, we eventually gave up trying to clean it.

In article . com,
"anon" says...
Because the water is so hard around here it stains glass panels.
Previous shower screens have become stained very quickly despite our
best efforts, we eventually gave up trying to clean it.


Citric or acetic acid?
Or is it something other than lime in the water?

On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 18:05:14 +0100,it is alleged that Rob Morley
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In article . com,
"anon" says...
Because the water is so hard around here it stains glass panels.
Previous shower screens have become stained very quickly despite our
best efforts, we eventually gave up trying to clean it.


Citric or acetic acid?
Or is it something other than lime in the water?

Certainly if it's normal common or garden limescale, white vinegar
(aka acetic acid+flavourings) will clean it off, and is relatively
non-hazardous (not to mention cheap) compared to specialist descaling
cleaners.


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Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while.

anon wrote:
Because the water is so hard around here it stains glass panels.
Previous shower screens have become stained very quickly despite our
best efforts, we eventually gave up trying to clean it.

How about an opaque screen? Anything's got to be better than a curtain...

David

anon wrote:

i'm looking to have two shower cubicles built in a current extension.
I want stud walls with a stone tray but with a rail for a shower
curtain rather than a glass door. How should the front be made so the
curtain can fall behind the tray and water won't run from the tray
outside the cubicle?

Surely it's just a case of positioning the rail for the curtain far
enough in so that water running off the bottom lands in the shower tray?
Which in turn may mean you need a deeper shower tray than anticipated,
to allow for that.

You can get spring-loaded rails which you can fit between two opposing
walls (ie like yours) without any screws etc; that would let you
position the rail optimally by trial and error.

David

Opaque screens are hard to come by, there are some nice shower curtains
at disposable prices in Ikea.

anon wrote:
....there are some nice shower curtains

Now there's an oxymoron if ever I saw one!

David

I'm getting the impression you don't like them? A bad childhood
experience? Hehe

Lobster wrote:
How about an opaque screen? Anything's got to be better than a curtain...

I dislike shower curtains too, but I noticed John Lewis today had some
dimpled heavy PVC curtains, which looked less likely to get as mouldy
and clingy as the lightweight polyester ones are apt to do.

Owain

anon wrote:
I'm getting the impression you don't like them? A bad childhood
experience? Hehe

Probably Hitchcock's fault!