I have had a lot of very good advice from many people on this subject and thought I would give you all some feedback. I have decided to make a wet-room using a flooring product call Polyflor. There may be other suitable products and I am not trying to advertise the name and I have no connection with the company. They have different flooring, one for occasional wet areas called standard and another designed to be slip resistant under foot when wet called hydro. The hydro has dimples which help the foot adhere to the floor better in wet conditions. I will use the standard which has the same non-slip components but without the dimples. I chose this because I thought manoeuvring a wheelchair on the hydro would cause it to warp. The product is welded at the joints and is placed over a coving where the floor meets the wall to produce an easy to clean, hygenic and most importantly waterproof area. It also looks to be an extremely hard wearing vinyl and abrasive to touch.
John
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> Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 15:16:02 +0100
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> Subject: Re: Accessible Shower Tray
> To: [log in to unmask]
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> Hi John,
> we kitted out the shower room for my daughter and use traditional quarry tiles - with a skirting of bull-nosed tiles one tile high - they last forever are much more easily cleaned than any synthetic material, give a better water seal than any of the glues or bonding agents. In terms of design I would suggest you play about with your chair to see what sort of gradient you are happy using for stability because the better the fall you have to the drain the drier the room will be but if the fall is too much you may find it annoying from the point of view of the chair wanting to move.
> My daughter's shower room is downstairs so I would guess that a felt layer and a good damp-proof membrane would need to go down and lap up the walls before you lay the screed for the tiles
> good luck
> Vin
> Vin West
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> From: John Rainey
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> Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 9:34 AM
> Subject: Accessible Shower Tray
> Hi Everyone!
> I would like some advice and for those who don't know me I am a wheelchair user. I am having workmen in to refurbish my bathroom and I want a wheel in shower. I am not going for a shower tray but opting for a tiled floor because I believe it will provide a better finish (most of the wheelchair friendly pre-built trays have a small upstand and --- The are so expensive!). I don't know whether or not this is relevant but the floor to the upstairs bathroom is wooden floor panels.
> Are there any design/construction issues I need to be aware of? This shower will get heavily used as I have a wife & three children who all take at least one shower a day so advice on the type of tile etc. would be useful.
> Thanks,
> John
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