showers in bathrooms with vaulted ceiling
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roarah
7 years agoHere are some of my inspiration pictures from when I was trying to figure out how to incorporate a shower into a high vaulted room. Many options were eliminated due to three walls having windows and shower plumbing on an exterior wall in New England lost valuable sq footage and dollars.
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Comments (3)I got the glass through a local shop. My situation was different, as only one wall, the "front" door wall, was glass. The other three walls were kerdi and tile. The sloped glass ceiling was captured in the walls on three sides and clear silicon was used to seal the remaining side to the front wall of glass. I'm not sure what type of specific seal was used on the door. It might have been clear vinyl. If you do a search or ask at the glass shops, it might also help if you refer to it as a "raked" (sloped) front wall of glass. Actually, lemme see if I can get a quick google hit... Found one at Wilson Glass. Not exactly what you're looking for though. Using something like that with a sealed transom overhead would work and be the lest expensive. Having the front wall as a single piece of glass with the door cutout of it would be $$$$$....See MoreBathroom: Vaulted or Cathedral Ceiling?
Comments (8)pinktoes -- That may be overkill. We have Nu-Heat in the floor of our master bath, and two floor registers from the gas-fired forced air furnace. This is a north-facing room with a roughly 66-inch X 80" archtop window (north) and two additional windows (west). The floor area is 11 X 14 and the ceiling angles from 9 feet to a flat that is 12 feet high. We're in the far north suburbs of Chicago -- haven't seen the ground since the beginning of December with ice and snow. My Ultra-Bain air tub has a heater and our shower is glassed, but open a couple of feet at the top (not totally enclosed like a steam shower). A friend in AZ had a walk-in (no door) shower that was so 'breezy' she showered in the guest bath. We'd be in real trouble in our master bath without the floor heat because the HVAC guy was a dope. We'd planned for the Nu-Heat there, but ended up adding a small boiler and tubing under the other north-facing rooms because the ducted supply was inadequate. I really think the Nu-Heat is doing almost all the work in our bathroom. Could you just wire for that space heater and add it only if needed? Will the bathroom floor heat be on its own thermostat? While we're talking warm bathrooms, let's not forget to put DOORS on our bathrooms, folks! (And heat vents in the toilet rooms.)...See MoreVaulted ceilings-use uplighting or downlighting?
Comments (9)I forgot to mention that we have a solatube in the ceiling of our bathroom as well. The sconces are for at night because when it is at all light out, the solatube is quite bright....See MoreMaster bath not cozy; tricks visually bringing down a vaulted ceiling.
Comments (3)Providing interesting items will focus the attention from rising to the ceiling. Consider using recessed medicine cabinets for medications. Running your top material up the wall behind the sinks is a much better solution than adding tile. Adding a narrow shelf to the continuous backsplash provides a surface for placing items out of the way of users....See More
Pipdog
7 years agoHere's our bath in progress with a shower in the middle of the room. The shower has three glass sides and faces outside. The plumbing wall is solid surface on one side and decorative tile on the other (yet to be installed).
inside of shower:
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7 years agoHere is a rough drawing of the room
since the plumbing worked best going the length of the shower, and by code an exterior wall would lose at least six inches inside the shower they added a wall to the left of the doorway to house the shower fixtures.
In my mind orginally that wall was going to be glass and the room ceilings would be a few feet higher than my glass enclousure. Once we decided to place plumbing five feet from the exterior and add a wall it made sense to lower the shower ceilings to a slope with the highest point at nine feet.
Here is a picture of the plumbing wall during construction
Where the paper is is the entrance to the bath room. The wall juts in the middle of the 13 foot long entrance wall.
The shower shower ceiling is three feet lower than room's highest point but you can not tell.
I am sure I am not explaining it right. We basically built an alcove shower instead of an open two sided glass one.
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