Besides the extreme shortage of space, the shower room should be in the bathroom area.
What is suitable for the shower room?
1, the bathroom has a space of more than 900 * 900 mm, which will not affect other equipment.
Less than this size, you don't need to make a shower room. Although it has the limit size of 800mm wide, it is easier for the elbow to touch the glass when taking a shower, or it is lighter to hang the shower curtain.
2, the need for complete separation of dry and wet.
The conventional height of shower nozzle is 2. 1 m, and the height of shower room is basically above 1.8 m to ensure that shower water will not splash on people's heads. You can choose the appropriate shower room height according to the height of family members.
3, bathing is afraid of cold, especially when there are elderly people at home, the shower room can be better insulated.
What shape does the shower room choose?
1, I-shaped shower room
The shower area of most families is located in the deep part of the bathroom, occupying the whole wall, and the dry and wet area is just divided into two halves by a straight shower room.
The glass partition is a very simple version of the in-line shower room, which has a certain dry-wet separation effect and the price is much cheaper.
2. Square shower room
If you can't fill the whole wall like a sawtooth, use a square to occupy a corner, and of course meet the space requirement of 900 * 900 mm
3. Diamond shower room
Some bathrooms have limited area, and the square right angle may be next to the toilet, which is relatively cramped. Cut off the right angle and turn it into a diamond. The external passage of the shower room can be much looser and there is room for opening the door.
4. Arc shower room
Circular arc is also a square variant, which is more suitable for people with old people at home and will not bump into it. Circular arc shower room can be customized completely, but it is not said that curved glass cannot be customized because of the difficulty in processing. 850 mm * 850 mm is the limit size, no matter how small it is, it is like being locked in a cage.
What pits are there in the shower room?
1, quotation
The general process of buying a shower room: the merchant first estimates the quotation, the owner pays the deposit, measures the bricks on the door, draws the design drawing, gives the accurate price, signs a contract to pay the full amount, and then goes to the factory for production. The production cycle is about one month, and finally the door-to-door installation. Quotations are generally in square meters. For example, the following two kinds of shower rooms, square and round, cost (A+B) * height * square meters, but there is no height? You can do whatever you want unless it's standard, to the top.
Measurement method of square shower room
Measurement method of circular arc shower room
2. Materials
There are two main things in the shower room, glass and profiles, and some small parts, such as tracks, metal hinges and water stops.
① glass
Common glass thicknesses are 6mm, 8mm, 10mm and 12mm. Generally, 6mm and 8mm are enough for home use, while 10mm and 12mm are much more expensive, because the thicker and heavier the glass, the stronger the other parts, and the higher the price. Let's look at it according to our own budget. The shower room must be made of tempered glass, with 3C certification mark in the corner, which should be printed directly on the glass. Here is the serial number of the factory, not the label.
Compulsory certification in China
Good tempered glass should at least look transparent, with no impurities, bubbles and ripples inside and a flat surface. Tap a few times and the sound should be crisp.
There is an explosion-proof film on the outside of the serious brand glass, which is pasted when it leaves the factory. If the glass really explodes, the fragments will stick to the film and won't splash everywhere. No? Big brands have confidence in their own glass and don't film it? It is said that the current glass technology has not reached 100%, and even the best tempered glass has 2? ~3? No one dares to take the risk of self-explosion rate. Why do you only put film on the outside? If you put a film on it, you will definitely get a lot of water in the shower. When cleaning water stains, you may scratch the film. Big brands of glass have a basic lifetime warranty, such as? Ten years of hardware, life-long glass? No matter whether the glass is damaged artificially or accidentally, it can be replaced for free.
② Introduction
The frame is like the skeleton of a shower room. It should be strong enough, otherwise even the best glass can't stand falling. There are mainly two kinds of profiles: aluminum alloy and stainless steel. Stainless steel has better strength and durability, and the price is usually higher.
Aluminum alloy extruded profile
Stainless steel profile
The outline of domestic shower room should be at least1.2mm thick. A brand must be divided into high, medium and low grades, which may range from 1.2mm to 2.0mm and 3.0mm. The thicker, the stronger and the higher the price.
Aluminum alloy is polished, shiny and dull. Under normal circumstances, the surface should be smooth without trachoma and feel smooth. Shower rooms and stores generally have sliced samples, which can be seen in cross section and inside, as well as smooth and flat.
Stainless steel electroplating surface is very bright, like a mirror, good without deformation, poor like a mirror. It's easy to leave fingerprints just by touching a handprint, so you should wipe them frequently. In fact, the shower room clerk also works hard every day?
Stainless steel glitters.
③ Orbit
The shower room doesn't need a track, which is related to whether it opens the door by sliding door. Generally speaking, the arc is mostly a sliding door, and the diamond and square are mostly flat doors. It depends: sliding doors save space and are suitable for small bathrooms; Open the door horizontally, make sure there is enough room to open the door, and don't bump into anything.
There are two kinds of tracks: aluminum alloy and stainless steel clad aluminum alloy. There is no pure stainless steel track. If a product is pure stainless steel, it must be a flat door. The track of pure aluminum alloy is mostly bent into a certain arc, because the arch is more compressive. You can pinch or press the samples displayed in the shop. If there is a sense of oppression, it proves that the strength is not enough, or the thickness is not enough, or the material itself is poor.
Cladding stainless steel can strengthen the overall strength of the track. Although the aluminum alloy track inside is still curved, the stainless steel outside can be made straight, and the lines look neat, which is very suitable for simple style.
The easiest way to judge the quality of the track is to get started directly and try to feel it by pushing and pulling several times. It is best to be smooth and quiet, without obstacles and noise. Try a shower room without feeling, try a few more, try a few more, I believe you will understand it slowly (the same reason as digging the inner wall of the toilet, ahem).
④ Hardware
Include wall clips (used to fix the glass on the wall), hinges (used to connect two glasses) and so on. The hardware connectors of the shower room with horizontal doors are particularly important, because the glass has no track support. If the quality of hardware is not good enough, the glass will sag after a long time.
Although some shower rooms don't have profile frames, they seem to use less materials and should be cheaper. In fact, the fewer frames, the higher the requirements for connectors and processes, because the fixed glass is completely on the side. For example, this one in the picture below, stainless steel paint fittings, frameless, minimalist, as beautiful as the price and appearance, 13 thousand, per square meter.
⑤ Water retaining strip
Because the weight of the glass is mainly hung on the frame or track, the water stop is not a load-bearing member, so it does not need too much strength. It can be made of PVC or artificial stone. The price is calculated according to the length, ranging from 50-200 yuan per meter, which is usually included in the total quotation of the merchants. PVC and artificial stone are easy to process, and can be made into square and round water-blocking strips in the shape of shower room, and can also be made into various imitation stone colors.
⑥ base
I really feel that the base of the shower room is a very useless design. There are stone, acrylic or resin, the latter two are easier to form, such as circular arc, but the strength is not enough and it is easy to collapse.
Drainage through the base is much slower than water flowing directly into the floor drain. If the bottom outlet of the base does not directly correspond to the floor drain of the bathroom, the drainage will be more obstructed if the water pipes are obliquely connected. And there is a height difference between the base and the ground, so taking a step forward is a naked violation of the barrier-free design concept.
⑦ Integral shower room
There is also a fully enclosed integral shower room, which looks like a space capsule, with showers, seats, racks, ventilation fans and so on. Basically, they are all standardized finished products, which can't be customized and difficult to clean, and are much more expensive than ordinary shower rooms.
Maybe the price of the whole shower room is cheaper than the total price of ordinary shower room and shower head, but I can't help but wonder if he can do better than the shower head if he makes the shower room a shower head. The whole shower room is mostly active in the production line of small factories. This kind of work is less and troublesome, and there is no reason for big factories to take it.
There are many innovative products on the market, such as toilets with washbasins and shower rooms with showers, but most of these new products are made by small brands, and big brands rarely make them. Why? The main reason is that quality control can't meet the requirements of big brands, which makes people feel that mainstream brands are a bit backward. They always do in-depth research in professional fields before exploring others.
So simply speaking, buying a shower room depends on a few pieces of glass and a metal frame, and the gift of faucet shower is not the key; Buying an integrated ceiling depends entirely on aluminum gusset plates and dragon skeletons, without greedy people sending lights and yuba; Look at plates, countertops, and hardware to buy cabinets. Do you choose range hoods and gas stoves instead of cabinets? Pack and send? More reliable.
What should I pay attention to when installing a shower room?
1, the waterstop comes in first. When a bricklayer sticks a floor tile, he embeds the water stop without gluing. To do this, one is firm and stable, and the other is that the tiles have a certain drainage slope, but the water stop should be horizontal and not placed on the floor tiles. So choose a shower room and pay a deposit before sticking bricks, so that people can agree to take the water stop home. If it is really impossible to bury the waterproof strip before tiling, you can only fix the waterproof strip by tiling. Glue must be of good quality, otherwise, after a long time, the glue will gradually age and water will seep out of the shower room.
White arc waterstop
2. When the installer comes into the site, first check whether the materials are the same as those seen in the store. You can pay attention to hardware and pulleys.
3. After installation, check whether the glass is damaged, especially the four corners of each glass are fragile. It also depends on whether the corner treatment is smooth and whether the chamfer is round.
4. Open and close the sliding door or sliding door several times to see if it feels smooth and consistent with the original experience in the store. If it feels awkward, it may be that there is something wrong with the installation, and the installer is still dealing with it in time.
supplement
1, about cleaning. Wipe the inside of the glass every time after taking a shower, for example, buy an IKEA 9.9 glass scraper, so that it won't accumulate too much dirt after a long time. Because there is an explosion-proof membrane outside the glass, use a soft towel to wipe it, not something hard.
2, the shelf is very convenient to use, you can install one on the wall of the shower room (if there is enough space), there are hanging rods and towels below.
Speaking of it, the shower room, as a completely modern bathroom equipment, has only been a hundred years since its birth. Every time I hear it? Classic? 、? Noble? 、? Luxury? Such a shower room slogan, my heart has no fluctuation and even a little want to laugh. If you are looking for an elegant and traditional bathing experience like a king, any bathtub is more suitable than a shower room. A good shower room needs the characteristics of simplicity, comfort, firmness and cleanliness to adapt to the modern life under the same concept. After all, we only bought a shower room to take a bath happily.
To sum up, when choosing a shower room, we must improve our understanding and design concept of the bathroom, so that when choosing a shower room, we can fully combine the reality with the actual characteristics, size and shape, and don't exaggerate, fit and be fair.