Bathrooms

[jimeve]

5 hours ago, Mike J said:

I have never seen them here.  I wonder if they would even work given the low water pressure in so many areas.  Also the water here is quite hard with a LOT of lime that could plug the water jets.  I need to remove and soak our rain style shower head and hand held unit in vinegar to clear the jets about every 4-5 weeks.  Our units look kind of like this.

Steve's asking about shower panels.

[Huggybearman]

2 hours ago, Gary D said:

At that cost it would be cheaper to BBbox a water softener, would the salt be available here though.

I did look into that. The cost in the UK is around £500 for a softener. I know salt granules are available here but haven't found the tablets. The problem would be sourcing spare parts if and when needed. I figured it would probably be better to use the locally sourced ones. The local ones are considerably bigger than the UK domestic ones so I would think they might be more effective.  

[Mike J]

1 hour ago, hk blues said:

I am totally confused - Steve has posted a link to shower enclosure panels and the replies relate to shower heads! 

My mistake.  I thought Steve was referring to wall panels that had built in shower jets.   Sorry Steve. 

Edited November 13, 2019 by Mike J
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[graham59]

Blimey, them's expensive Steve.

I think my whole (large) concrete CR was built for less than those.  

Tiling it out... fully, including labour, was only about p6000 .

[Tommy T.]

12 minutes ago, graham59 said:

Tiling it out... fully, including labour, was only about p6000 .

Did that include the rubber ducky, Graham?

[stevewool]

Thanks boys for all your replies , I loaded the link what I thought I was looking at , yes confusing , so it looks like tilling is the winner this time, then again with so many rolls of black bin liners that we have sent over they may work too.

[JDDavao II]

British friends, how are those panels affixed? Mastic?

Edited November 13, 2019 by JDDavao

[graham59]

Don't ask me.

I'm only a 'tile peasant' . 

[stevewool]

31 minutes ago, JDDavao said:

British friends, how are those panels affixed? Mastic?

I have watch a few videos of how these are fixed to the walls, and yes a few dabs of mastic onto the walls and then wait, you can buy the kit with the top bottom and side fixings .

[Gary D]

5 hours ago, Huggybearman said:

I did look into that. The cost in the UK is around £500 for a softener. I know salt granules are available here but haven't found the tablets. The problem would be sourcing spare parts if and when needed. I figured it would probably be better to use the locally sourced ones. The local ones are considerably bigger than the UK domestic ones so I would think they might be more effective.  

I have see then for under £400, my current softener ran for about 15 years before needing any maintenance.