Apollo Design

Mobility Wet Rooms

These wet rooms are very much like our standard wet rooms but they have been designed and built for people unable to use a conventional bath.

This wet room was a bedroom. Almost any room can be made into a wet room.

If you still like a bath but find it difficult to get into. Consider having it lower. So the floor of the bath is at the same level as the floor of the room. (Depending on pipe work for waste). The bath side is not very high then and it is not difficult to step over. the main difficulty with getting into a normal bath is the difference in levels, not the height of the bath side.

Mobility wet room

This was a separate bathroom and WC which made the bath area very small. The bath was only 1600 mm long. Finding it increasingly difficult to use the bath, they wanted a shower

So we suggested a wet room. The wall was removed and one of the doors was boarded and plastered. The floor was sloped into a gully, sheeted with ply and that covered with Altro marine non slip.

This wet area was tiled with black and white non slip floor tiles with underfloor heating.

Building a wet room

This was a small downstairs room that already had a shower cubicle and WC in it.
The cubicle was too clumber some for an elderly person and left no room to move.
We began by stripping the room. Chased in the pipe for the cistern. Then we cut a channel in the floor, cut through the wall below the damp course for the shower and basin waste.

The pipe work for the new basin was moved. We then put a cement screed over the floor sloping into the waste. You can just see the shower waste in the floor

The floor was then covered with non slip Altro marine vinyl flooring.

It was then tiled and a vanity unit fitted. The wanted a large vanity unit for storage. But it still left plenty of room in the shower corner.

A fold down seat was bolted to the wall under the shower and then the WC was fitted.