Recess-It for bathtub shampoo caddy

jonsf

13 years ago

Hi All,

Am considering getting the REC-1418 Recess-It caddy for my shower area.

http://www.innoviscorp.com/recess-it.php

Any experience with it? The Amazon reviews (there are two) are very mixed.

- Thanx in advance!

- Jon

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Olychick
13 years ago
I had 3 recess-it niches installed in my new shower based on the recommendations of people here, my tile guy and the tile supplier. One in the size you are looking at, two small soap holder sizes for soap/scrubbies, etc. Everyone seems to love them. They seem fine to me, but I am just trusting the people who do the work. The negative review on Amazon sounded like someone who hadn't done much research about niches.
bill_vincent
13 years ago
I've never used the 1418, but I use the 1414 quite often, and have had no problems with it. Below is a how-to pictorial from my website on the 1414, and it's no different on the one you're interested in, other than you cut a bigger hole. :-)

Here is a link that might be useful: My website's How-to Gallery
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jonsf
Original Author
13 years ago
Thanks olychick and bill!

One more question... I want to put in a shelf so separate the bottom of the caddy from the top - soap on the bottom, shampoo up top. The tiles I'm using are kinda thick, so I don't think their floating shelf will work well for me.

I'm thinking about getting a piece of glass to use for the shelf. I emailed Innovis Corp to ask them exactly which size I need, but they haven't responded.

Any advice? Good idea/bad idea? If not glass, what's a better idea?

- Thanx again!
- Jon
jonsf
Original Author
13 years ago
Hi again all!

I found another product that may work better...

http://www.noblecompany.com/Portals/0/CAD%20DRAWINGS/Noble%20Niche%20304_drawing_907.pdf

Any experience with those?

- Thanx
- Jon
marysdottir
13 years ago
I ddi a lot of research looking for just the right niches and ended up buying the Fin Pan PreFormed Niches at flooringsupplyshop,com. We looked at the Noble, the Recess-It and the Duk before settling on this one.

We ended up buying 4 of the combo niches because we wanted small and large niches as you do. We cut off two of the smaller niches and installed them as 4 larger and two smaller, instead of 4 of each.

We are very happy with them; they installed very easily. They are slightly sloped top and bottom so they don't allow water to puddle inside. Its only been a few months but so far no problems.

Here is a link that might be useful: fin pan PreFormed niches

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