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In taking out a conventional bathtub in an old house and putting in a same size low threshold shower, has anyone used a glass wall that goes half way down the side instead of a glass door/wall combo?
I think the shower would be a rectangle 60 in. long in place of the old tub.
Does water spray all over the floor or is this successful in most cases? Should it be 2/3 down the length? One thing I don't want is a door that opens out toward the floor, thus dripping water on the floor.
My late sister had her old acrylic tub removed and a new walk-in low threshold shower installed. However, since she needed to use a wheeled walker for mobility issues, she installed an extra-long shower curtain instead. As far as I know she didn't have any issues with water spraying out onto the floor.
Does water spray all over the floor or is this successful in most cases? Should it be 2/3 down the length? One thing I don't want is a door that opens out toward the floor, thus dripping water on the floor.
Nowadays plumbers install a drip catcher along the bottom of these doors so even if they open outward you don't get the drips on the floor.
Yeah, it's been done a lot. But the shower wasn't that small.
If you can keep the shower head high and pointing away from the opening, you'd probably be OK. Even better would be a rain head- water sprays straight down.
I had a shower like that in a hotel once and I felt like it worked pretty well. They had the drain along the wall on the side of the shower head, rather than the middle, and I think the length of the shower cubicle might have been longer than 60" though.
I have no experience on whether it would spray onto the floor - seems like it might, possibly. They do half and 2/3 doors in the UK, but these are most always in combination with tubs, so the splashing you get at foot level would be contained by the tub. Also, it would seem that to have a glass door that would reach halfway the length of a normal tub, the door would be VERY heavy. So I don't even know if anyone makes something like that.
I loved the glass brick enclosure picture that Knowledge Builder showed above.
I don't have a partial wall, but I do have a completely open shower (no doors at all). The water stays in a confined area. I have a channel drain in the back of the shower area, and no lip to get into the shower (the floor just slopes a little).
I would think a half-wall would be more than sufficient and if you want to be extra careful, just make your entire bathroom a wet room (with tile on the floor, etc.)
We had our tub removed as they are rebuilding our house and the smaller shower removed too. We are going to have an opening about 63" we will have no threshold. It will be a roll in shower if hubby later on needs a wheel chair. He was paralyzed a few years ago and is walking now. But he still has residual problems from being paralyzed. We have one rain head on the right wall, and a built in seat and handheld shower on the left wall. We also are looking at shower doors, or just adding a glass panel to one side. we want to keep as wide of entry to the shower as possible. The floor is slightly pitched so the water will go to the drain. So we may not even need the glass panel.
I didn't do a conversion because it was new construction but I put in a shower rather than a tub.
The glass door opens in both directions, so I can open it outward to turn the water on to get hot, and when I'm ready to get out, I can turn the water off and open the door into the shower so the drips fall into the shower pan.
And as someone else noted, there is a drip rail so that I can also close the door back into the neutral position and the drips fall there.
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