Shower Trays are in integral part of all bathroom installations. It's important to choose the correct type to make sure the tray performs its functional duties correctly, but also that is adds to the look and feel of the room. Until recently shower trays have been quite large, in that I mean quite tall or thick, of often between 90mm and 110mm. I am not quite sure where this trend began but it certainly became the norm for all shower trays made in the UK and also for trays made in China.
In around 2002 a few companies came out with slim 40mm shower trays, and now almost every tray on the market has this thin, shallow design. There is however a few advantages to the older and more traditionally manufactured tray. Mainly the fact that these larger trays can hold more water, people have in the past wanted there to be 30 to 40mm of standing water in the shower tray as they found this a more comfortable way to shower. Of course modern thin trays cannot carry this depth of water and high flow shower tray wastes must to used to take high volumes of water away quickly.
Slim line trays are also cheaper to manufacture, this of course being the driving force behind most manufacturers drives to present them to the market as superior. They are also lighter in weight and therefore do not cause such as obvious problem to health and safety in terms of a "one man lift". Both thick and thin design shower trays are available with "riser kits". These kits are designed for applications with solid concrete floors, or awkward joist layouts. In the event where the waste pipe cannot be hidden under the floor boards, running in-between the joist, the tray is lifted up on legs so that the waste parts can run under the tray.
There is then an acrylic panel, which is the same colour of the shower tray to conceal the gap between the tray and the floor. One option however is to have a suitable trades person built a wooden plinth for your tray. This might actually work out cheaper than a "riser kit" and would allow you to tile the side of the tile the side of the plinth with the same tile as your floor. Which might create a more pleasant effect than a plastic panel? James Harrison has been working in the bathroom industry for over 12 years and is currently working with Liberty Bathrooms, a retailer of bathroom products online.
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