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Minimum size for a walk in shower? I've got 1300mm by 700mm available, could stretch to 800mm deep, but the 1300mm measurement is fixed, cos walls. I'd rather not have a door, cos lazy, but I'm concerned that it will feel too cramped getting in and out.

First world problems, again.

The largest we could get away with was 800mm (fixtures side) x 900mm (deep) and it's fine (it actually feels considerably more spacious than showering in the bath felt before). I think anything less than 800 and it'll start feeling a bit claustrophobic instead of wonderful walk-in luxury. We've got an overhead shower which probably helps too as there's not a lot of shower-head waving around going on.

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Good to know, thanks. Do you have a flipper panel (apparently that's the technical term for the short 90 degree return panel, and do you know how wide the main panel is? Looks like a walk-in might be doable after all.

edited with pic, we went fully fold-away as the room is tiny and I didn't want anything eating into the space. I originally wanted a duravit openspace (actually designed the whole thing around it), only to find it was discontinued just when it was time to purchase everything. This is a novellini young, holds together with magnets, v satisfying.

We have 800 x 1200 with a 600 screen along the 1200 starting without a return, see how we go.

Any interesting products worth looking at regarding walk-in showers? We've got 1300mm x 900mm to play with. Could go longer but probably not worth any longer than that.
Current plan is lusso stone (seems a bit overpriced) tray, screen and thermostatic valves but open to suggestions.

We’ve just gone with Lusso stone for some bits. You can find the same shower trays elsewhere cheaper, the 25mm ones that is. Check before you order on stock Levels atm. They quoted December for a sink. Again I found it elsewhere.

We've got an impey magic wet room in-floor drain thing – I wanted something with a smaller horizontal drain but they all had a one-way slope which would look weird with the doors folded away.

All our fittings are crosswater, not really through choice, just 'brass, not shit' narrows the search field quite a lot. I did a lot of internet searching to know roughly what I was after, but in the end had a two-hour one-on-one appt with Guy at HE Olby (lewisham) to do some problem solving and see a few things in action. Bought basically everything but the bath through them in the end, a bit pricier than buying here and there on the internet but it sort of paid for itself when some things needed swapping/replacing.

The most interesting walk-in stuff I found was from unidrain, but based on the £400 shower shelf/squeegee thing I didn't buy, very spendy.

@Bainbridge get the £400 squeegee u coward

I'm a sucker for a product that solves a silly problem very exactly. Ended up with a £60 shelf and a £15 squeegee but I feel a failure every time I use them.

So many houses (and gardens) were so full of crap that the skips were filled in no time. If Greenwich did that for a short time, they would probably tackle much of that problem

The ‘backlog’ argument is commonly used to support free public services at the point of use (vide the early days of the NHS), but I don’t think it holds water - for me the point is that there are few constraints to induced demand when something appears to be ‘free’

New installation? I'd be interested to hear how you get on with it. I take it there's no flipper panel on that?

Ah, I may have been guilty of a terminological inexactitude. The new shower will be raised off the floor, because otherwise the plumbing will be a nightmare and way beyond my meagre DIY skills. But I'd like to have a shower without a door, just a walk-in entrance. If not, a sliding door will have to do. The shower will basically take up one end of the en suite bathroom, across the full (well, not that fulsome) width of the room.

The new shower will be raised off the floor

How can you live like this

I don't really have much useful to say. My entire bathroom knowledge comes from trying to solve all my specific problems, no wider general knowledge :(

I didn't mean to make a general point out of it. I was just impressed at the time, because the amount of rubbish that had accumulated over decades really was immense, how much came out. This also only went on for two months at the most, and then it seemed to be done.

(Bulky waste collections used to be free; now that there is a small fee, the argument that administrating the small fee may cost more than not administrating it may also have bite again, but I don't know.)

Minimum size for a walk in shower?

About 5km x 5km for hippy, a bit less for everyone else.

I won't rest until the coward @Bainbridge has bought the £400 squeegee

How can you live like this

I know. It's shameful. I'm putting it down to a misguided attempt to appear young, spritely and lithe so I can claim a 4 inch step up to the shower isn't beyond me. What I really need is one of those baths with an opening door and a power lift they advertise during repeats of Midsomer Murders.

About 5km x 5km for hippy, a bit less for everyone else.

Sadly I have to share my postcode with other houses. More shame...

Yeah it’s not quite finished yet. I was told you need 1200 if it’s open one end.
We have an overhead shower and I didn’t get much consistency on how long a screen needs to be before you don’t require a return. So I’m going to see how we go. I’m pretty tall so decided on walk in to give space, also to help with layout and how the room feels in a rather confined space in the loft.

Oof.

I'll buy it and rent it out for £10 a day

I think some of that is clearly taking the piss out of the refurbishment work on the sheltered housing.
What needs to happen is CCTV!

Yeah you'll need at least 1200 as you have said and you'll still get splash out onto the bathroom depending on the shower you install.