open shower or a door that closes?
I would like to put in one of those cool showers with one big clear glass wall and you just walk in. My other half thinks it will be cold in the winter and wants a door to close. Does anyone have any opinions on this? Thanks
I would like to put in one of those cool showers with one big clear glass wall and you just walk in. My other half thinks it will be cold in the winter and wants a door to close. Does anyone have any opinions on this? Thanks
I really do wonder at people who get ‘livid’ and ‘irate’ because someone leaves a door to a room open. (And no, I’m not a lazy husband, but female, and I also dislike chilly bathrooms.)
In response to 9:43, I would say this: I’m the same way — I hate being cold, I hate when there are drafts in the bathroom, and I was convinced I would be freezing with this arrangement. And no manner of persuasion convinced me that the open shower wouldn’t leave me freezing, hence the electric heater we installed.
The one thing I didn’t expect with our open shower is that the cold is actually less of an issue than the bathtub/shower curtain arrangement we had before. Maybe because the temperature equalizes throughout the bathroom? I still get irate when my husband leaves the door open, but I was actually very, very surprised by how comfortable I am in our open shower.
9:43 does make a good point that your significant other is unlikely to be convinced by people on the internet, and a backup plan can’t hurt.
I have to back your girlfriend/wife here since nobody else has. Some people are just more likely to get chilled than others. In the winter I dread having to be soaking wet getting out of the shower. I run a space heater in addition to the heat-fan that I can switch on in the bathroom that does already have a steam pipe running through it. If my husband comes in while I’m showering and forgets to shut the door to keep in the warm air I am livid. I hate it when I realize there’s no conditioner and I have to open the shower to reach out into the cold to get some.
If you want the open shower wall (which I admit look great and have to be easier to keep clean) I suggest you find a way to keep her warm. Don’t argue that people on the internet said it would be fine. That’s almost certainly a bad move on any husband’s part. Instead start researching heating systems that will make the air outside that wall just as warm as that inside. Heated towel rack and a nice new fluffy robe might make her happy too. You have to give a little to get a little.
We have a totally open shower; although we meant to have one side glassed off, we haven’t gotten around to it (like so many things). It’s been like this since November, and we don’t get cold. We installed an electric heater in the bathroom because I was sure we’d get cold but it really wasn’t that necessary, even in the deadest of winter (there’s no other heat in that room, although it is an interior room). The water gets warm and the bathroom steams up and it’s fine. Middle pic here is still pretty much how it is: http://bklyngardenhopeful.blogspot.com/2007/11/tiling-progress.html (That was when the tiling was done, I don’t think we’d even cleaned yet. And for the record, the blue sparkly toilet seat was temporary (roll eyes)).
I have a glass enclosed shower. Its not any colder in there than it is outside. Once you turn the warm water on, it gets pretty steamy in there.
I have one piece of glass in my shower with all glass tile. It looks great, the only drawback is i get a little water on the floor sometimes because there is no bath just a shower.