shower bench optimal size? help!
tomalyse
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Shower size and bench
Comments (8)The doorway to the shower is going to be around 30" finished give or take. Originally the pocket door was also going to be 30" but then we found a huge vent stack in the corner that I had to accommodate and things got shifted. I wanted a decent sized bench for my decent sized butt so we decided to take a few inches out of the toilet stall instead. We happen to have a small bathroom downstairs that is a few inches smaller than what I have planned up there so we know it will work without being uncomfortable (and it's plenty wide). I was originally going to put a niche on the side wall but decided to put it on the back wall instead so we could bury the stack. Here is an older version of the floor plan. The basic stuff has pretty much stayed the same but some walls have shifted slightly (due to existing conditions and joists falling in inconvenient places) but I don't have a pretty plan that shows it. The tub is now a double ended tub and the box behind the door that was the old radiator is being replaced by a combo radiator/towel warmer from myson. The toilet stall is about 3' wide by 4'9" long here, it's down to more like 4'6" in reality. The shower is 3' x 5'6 overall (a little smaller in reality now too with a few inches taken out of the bench)....See MoreAnyway to optimizing spacing in this section of the layout?
Comments (41)When you build a 1.5 story like this, you spend a lot of extra money to have a much worse house in every way that matters. The attic rooms were originally for SERVANTS because the space sucked so much--or for children if you were kinda broke and only for you if you were really broke. In the rafter era, they were dirt cheap spaces provided that the roof was simple (and it was). In the age of trusses and overly complicated rooflines, they are major money for a space that still sucks....See MoreHelp with remodel planning > shower / toilet area size
Comments (16)As has been mentioned, 30" is snug for a toilet space. It gets tighter when you mount a TP holder on one wall, etc. Witht eh glass wall above, your 30" space won't necessarily be claustrophobic, but if you can bump it to 36" the space will be much improved, both for use and for cleaning. The 36" toilet space will reduce the shower to roughly 42", which is plenty good. As to the plumbing being on the hex-marked wall and you wanting a shower head on the right exterior wall, yes, you can surface mount the plumbing and run the pipe around the wall(s). Or, you can have the supply valve on the hex-wall, run the plumbing within that wall up to the ceiling, then across the ceiling (within the joist bay), and then have it come out of the ceiling and surface mount the short stub and the shower arm on the tiled surface of that exterior wall. Your joist bays should be well insulated. Keep the insultion above the pipe, have no insulation between the pipe and the shower ceiling. Plus, pitch the pipe that is within the ceiling for drainage so when the water is turned off, the pipe drains via gravity out the shower head. In my master shower, I have the plumbing for both shower heads running through the ceiling. No issues in 20+ years of freezing winters....See MoreRoom for a bench in a walk-in shower ~34” x 66”?
Comments (29)@btydrv Interesting you should mention that. At one point, I considered taking another 31 inches from the master bedroom closet, moving the shower to where the toilet is now and enlarging it 42" x 66". Then, I would have room for a double vanity. But, the toilet was directly across from the door, which both DH and I disliked immensely. If I put the vanity on the wall with the window, I wouldn't have much room for a mirror above it--I think it would look rather choppy. Do I then make modifications to the window as well? I'm not sure how that would look and the heating vent would most likely need to move (it's under the window). I also like having the closet space. @thinkdesignlive thank you for the link to the Houzz article. I had not seen that one! We live in the San Francisco bay area, so it's pretty warm most of the time, so I'm not sure that heated tile is necessary, but it might be a nice feature since everything would be ripped up on the floor anyways. I will consider doing the curbless shower again. This also means a floating vanity. @joseph_corlett: that's a great idea--at least I would have a place to put my leg up and shave :-). I still do like the bench for stability reasons as mentioned by btydrv....See Morekgwlisa
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