<p>From a practical standpoint, I don’t get the concept. I’ve been researching rentals in London and quite a few of them have wet rooms. Doesn’t everything get wet when one takes a shower? Especially if you are sharing the space with someone else, wouldn’t all of the fixtures and floor be wet after the first person’s use? Or am I just not understanding the situation?</p>
<p>"Wet rooms are the new, modern bathrooms and are becoming a lot more popular with new bathrooms being installed today. The idea of a wetroom is simple – It is to use whatever space is available, in the most flexible way possible, to suit the needs of those who use it .</p>
<p>A modern wet room is what it says it is. It is the shower being integrated in to the bathroom instead of being a boxed off space in the corner. The big difference of course is the level of the flooring. A wet room has no step or tray for the shower area. The floor being a suitable gradient so water drains away and doesn’t flow out right across the entire bathroom floor."</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.wetroomshowering.com/about_us.html[/url]”>http://www.wetroomshowering.com/about_us.html</a></p>
<p>OK, so the floor is designed to make sure the water doesn’t flow on top of the entire floor. But it still must get wet when the person moves around taking their shower. That’s the part that doesn’t make sense to me.</p>
<p>It sounds horrible, kind of like they’ll be sending Zyklon B in through the vents.</p>
<p>They’ve been doing this in some old buildings in Europe for a long while- where space is at a premium. Always reminded me of the concept of combo shower/toilet stalls in old campers.</p>
<p>Doesn’t it sound as if it would present even more of a falling hazard? That seems like a lot of wet floor to me.</p>
<p>The slide show on the link shows showers that are designed so everything in the room doesn’t get wet. My parents loved the doorless showers in Europe so much that was the one thing they insisted on when I designed their house. It’s really not that hard. (I, on the other hand, had experienced the other sort of wet room, in much cheaper hotel rooms.) Generally the toilet paper stayed dry, but the shower water was not nearly as confined. As my parents got less mobile not having to step over something to get in the shower was a big plus.</p>
<p>I stayed in a hotel in D.C. with this. It was neat. The floors were a type of granite slab. It
was very pretty.</p>
<p>The thread title describes what my s’s bathrooms look like when they are done with their shower… and they have a traditional bathroom with shower curtain :(</p>
<p>Reminds me of the cute little bathrooms on sleeper cars in trains. Shower, sink, toilet, floor- all in one.</p>
<p>So, in a well-designed wet room, the water will stay in the shower area and the rest of the room will stay dry, which I still find hard to believe. The key is finding a rental with well-designed facilities. Or, better yet, a rental that has a normal bathroom. : ) When I think of some of the tiny wet rooms I’ve seen on HGTV’s House Hunters International, I just cringe.</p>
<p>Wet rooms are fabulous for people who are mobility impaired: No ledge to have to step over (for legs that don’t move) and plenty of room for a wheelchair or similar device to maneuver. When my women’s group was planning a weekend getaway that included a mobility impaired member, we really learned that <em>accessible</em> generally isn’t, especially if the person wants to bathe. Participate in cooking? Another issue.</p>
<p>I came upon a wet room when we visited friends in Japan. Their bathing regimen included washing with soap and rinsing outside the tub and then a luxurious soak in a tub in which you can sit upright. </p>
<p>The other places I’ve seen wet rooms are in hospitals & assisted living places. Patients can shower with help and not be hindered by the small spaces that a bathtub or shower usually contains.</p>
<p>I get the accessibility benefits of a well designed wet room. What I fear is renting a place (for a LOT of money, I might add) based on possibly deceptive pictures that make a truly small space look larger than it is. I have mobility issues of my own, chiefly related to balance, and a wet, slippery floor is something I need to avoid.</p>
<p>I stayed in a hotel in Italy that was like this. It was awful.</p>
<p>Before we got our base housing in Japan we lived in a house in town. It had a wet room and I absolutely loved it! It included a showerhead with a long hose that could be used for cleaning the room itself. I actually enjoyed cleaning it! If slipping and falling is a concern, I’m sure you could put down non-slip bathmats.</p>
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<p>The only part of this that sounds appealing is the concept of just spraying down the entire room. (Even 5 year olds would enjoy cleaning the bathroom!)</p>
<p>I was an exchange student in Denmark during HS (when dinosaurs roamed the earth). The farm house I lived in had an enormous fully tiled bathroom with an open shower in one corner. I always loved it and was surprised that the entire room did not get wet.</p>
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You understand that is just what renting in London is like, wet room or not? A very small space for a whole lot of money.</p>
<p>Yes, I’m well aware of the prices in London. But if I can get a 2 bdrm, 2 bath for the same price as a 2 bdrm, 1 bath, 1 wet room, I’ll take the one without the wet room.</p>