FabSwingers.com forum: Wet room advice any plumbers around?

By *ex-a-frolics OP Couple
over a year ago

Brizzle

An elderly relative with mobility issues is having a wet room installed. At the moment he has a bath with an overhead shower, he doesn’t use either because he can’t & just has a strip wash. We don’t think he’d use the new wet room but the bathroom desperately needs updating & it won’t cost him any money.

Once work has been done to the house we are going to move in with him to help care for him, what we would like to know is it possible to also install a bath in a wet room, can anyone advise?

Many thanks.

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By *ruebameMan
over a year ago

from the womb and tryout to get back

Hi op yes you can install a bath in a wetroom you may have to have the flooring welded if the drain is going through but if it's just going out the wall then your good to go

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By *ex-a-frolics OP Couple
over a year ago

Brizzle

Ok that’s great so if we were to buy the bath, it’s not s big plumbing job to hook up with the drain for the shower, presumably we’d need a free standing roll top bath?

Thanks.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Ok that’s great so if we were to buy the bath, it’s not s big plumbing job to hook up with the drain for the shower, presumably we’d need a free standing roll top bath?

Thanks. "

Have a word with the contractor before they start as they might be able to do it at the same time as adapting the bathroom. Plus because it’s specialist flooring you can’t just take it up and put I’d down easily to add a drain pipe. X

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By *uck-RogersMan
over a year ago

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Mmmm I take it, that the bath that you would like to install also, is for an able bodied persons use. As social services have assessed the needs of the elderly person. I as a former wet room installer for S.S, The hot and cold feeds to the bath will be blanked off at a suitable place. And the 40mm waste pipe from the bath will also be terminated. An old tin bath would not be to your liking. A combined walk in bath and shower, can also be a hazard to a person with mobility problems.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I believe that the VAT can be reclaimed on any work carried out to improve the bathing facilities of older and infirm members of the public...

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By *ex-a-frolics OP Couple
over a year ago

Brizzle

Thanks for all your help, so the bath has to be fitted at the same time as everthing else, it couldn’t be added post wet room?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Thanks for all your help, so the bath has to be fitted at the same time as everthing else, it couldn’t be added post wet room?"

I wouldn’t like to say yes, my sons wetroom the floor had to be levelled properly first to allow the water to run into the drain. And the drain repositioned. The drainage would have to be in position before the flooring was laid as well as it’s a specialist job x

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