What kinds of problems are caused by wet rooms?

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olldroo
10 years ago
Assuming your room will be well waterproofed and the tiles laid professionally, I can't see any structural problems. What are you planning for the wet room? A lot depends on how much will get wet at any one time. You may also want to consider non-slip tiles for safety too.

Photos of the room and what you plan to do would be helpful.
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Ed
10 years ago
Hi hillandsett, pardon my ignorance, what is a wet room ?
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Lampert Dias Architects, Inc.
10 years ago
Wet rooms are not common in California yet, but I suspect they will be popular soon. They started in places where bathrooms are extra tiny and therefore the entire bathroom is waterproofed so that the shower and the sink and toilet are all side by side with a drain in a sloping floor and tiles on the walls and ceilings........

We have started to design large walk - in showers without curbs for our clients which is a move in the direction of wet rooms.......

I have always been fascinated with the idea of an entire bathroom as a wet room and with a built in hose that sprays everything down and cleans it instantly with a spray of soap and a blast of water.............I hate cleaning bathrooms and this is the best solution that I can think of......
Curt D'Onofrio
10 years ago
Re: Ed "What is a wet room"
This is a new concept to me also. But as i understand it, a wet room is a room that can be completely hose'd down with water, and the wooden studs within any walls behind shall not receive any of that moisture....
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Tradewetrooms.com
10 years ago
Check out our blog post there - http://www.tradewetrooms.com/blog/2013/07/what-is-a-wet-room/
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10 years ago
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General problems from wet-rooms always fall back on installation methods and procedures. In all wetroom applications, best practice methods is to cover all corners with tape and apply a liquid membrane on "all areas that may be in contact with water, such as the floor, all walls and even the ceiling within the showering area throughout the bathroom."
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To respond to the "what is a wet-room question"...
By (wikipedia) definition: "A wet room is a bathroom without internal dedicated or raised areas which has an open shower. Structurally, a wet room requires the bathroom to have a gradient or slope towards a drain hole, and a foul air trap connecting the floor to the waste pipes."

To that definition we'd like to add that the slope is roughly 2% which is generally un-noticable, and that the slope in European bathrooms apply to the whole bathroom space.

In the US where our bathrooms generally are on a larger scale, we anticipate the slope only occuring within the shower space and within a certain distance between that space and a certain area of the bathroom versus the entire bathroom area.

For that reason, we strongly encourage waterproofing MINIMALLY 12-inches up from the floor for all walls, corners and seams in contact with such throughout the entire bathroom. IDEALLY we encourage waterproofing the whole bathroom space.
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WE SELL AND RECOMMEND- (1) PreSloped Shower Pans, (2) Crack Isolation Tape and (3) Copolymer Latex as a Liquid Membrane.

WE REQUIRE FOR WARRANTY- acrylic latex caulk and construction adhesive to be used when installing our wetroom shower pans.

WE RECOMMEND- using latex grout for the tile space instead of other grout types.
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We like the link provided by TradeWetRooms.com (above) and recommend our website as a source for additional information as well as our YouTube channel which addresses How-To methods.

European Wetroom- http://www.trendingaccessibility.com/european-wet-room.php

Wet Room Waterproofing-
http://www.trendingaccessibility.com/wet-room-waterproofing.php

YouTube Installation How-To DIY Videos- https://www.youtube.com/user/TrendngAccessibility

Should anyone have any questions, post a reply, visit our website or give us a call.

Good luck, thanks and holiday regards.
Curt D'Onofrio
10 years ago
I seen pics of wet rooms where the floor is ceramic + grout. Is the grout generally slightly lower than the tiles surface? If so, then isn't some of the water prevented of draining ? Over a matter of time does this standing water generally cause problems ?
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10 years ago
In response to grout and tile, yes, grout is generally below the surface of the tile area. So your question pertaining to standing water conceptually makes sense. Keep in mind that latex grout is used instead and that grout prevents water penetration. Again... everything falls back to the adherence to proper installation methods. Below is a link to one of our installation video's specific to Waterproofing. Hope that answers your question... we otherwise defer tiling specific questions to those tiling trade professionals.
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Envision 3D Home & Landscape Design, LLC.
8 years ago
One additional thought to add is that wet rooms can get COLD, depending on the door arrangement and size of the space. Our company highly recommends radiant heating mats beneath the tile, as well as possibly incorporating a ceiling heater fan if the room's heating duct work will not be directly or indirectly supplying the new wet room.
grainne831
8 years ago
We have wet rooms and don't find them cold. On the positive side you won't have glass shower doors to clean which for me was the deciding factor. We have three in total. One is fairly small with the shower area a bit too close to the door so we ended up having to put a raised tiled brick on the floor as water was coming out and under door. Floor is sloped to the corner but the flow is too much to be drained as quick so it was necessary to stop it. I would ensure there is a good slope within the shower area and I would slope to the corner of shower. Our ensuite the drain isn't in the corner and I find I have to mop it towards drain especially when it gets a bit blocked.... Again our showers have big heads and flow is too much to drain quickly....maybe bigger drains if u intend to have bid shower heads.
U also need to ensure the tiles u use are non slip.... We went for marble tiles but in shower corner we picked matching mosaic tiles so they are non slip
Judy Mishkin
8 years ago
ours works well, in the ceiling we have a combination heater and vent. in the winter we heat (and then vent), in the summer just vent. or just crank the big awning window open. 5x8 shower with just a 36" wide floor to ceiling glass panel to keep the vanity dry. turns out 30" wide would have been sufficient.

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What kinds of problems are caused by wet rooms?

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