I like the Japanese style ones where the entire bathroom is the shower. The floor is meant to be wet with the benefit of just being able to spray the entire bathroom down when it needs cleaning.
This one just makes no sense.
That floor is not meant to be in a bath tho
Then … then put a door on it!
Was the contractor sick? Did they get kidnapped by ICE and moved to one of their gulags? Is there a glass shortage in your area? Are you really cheap, and just didn’t want to pay for the full thing? Was Dinah Lance showering in there, and the water suddenly turned cold because someone flushed the toilet, and she screamed, shattering the glass? Did someone steal it because they needed to melt it down and reconfigure it for a place to store one of their victim’s freshly-lopped heads?
Calm down, it looks like a hotel.
Meh. They can work if you have the space for them. This one is way to small. But I’ve seen really nice ones executed. You just need more space than most people have for the shower to occupy.
Come to Korea! Many bathrooms are just closets with a toilet and a sink with a shower head attached and you just shower in the bathroom and soak anything that’s in there.
Not only that, the draft coming in makes you freezing cold the entire time, forcing you to huddle under the water for most of your shower, thus wasting it and washing away the soap you’re trying to lather in.
A hotel I stayed at once had this exact same shower and I can confirm that water did in fact get everywhere. I wouldn’t be surprised if the building collapsed after a few years due to water damage rotting/eroding away the support beams under the floor.
When I used to install custom shower enclosures, I would quietly cringe every time someone wanted one of these awful things. What I would usually compromise with the customer on is, size the panel so that the walk-through opening was sized correctly to accept a stock door, if they want to add one later. I’d say more than half of clients would add the door less than a year later.
Doorless showers are great for the elderly, disabled, orgies, you name it- WHEN DONE RIGHT. This is far from correct. The shower spray should be spraying away from the entry, not right fucking at it. It’s puzzling because it looks like the control valve is on the near side so they routed the head all the way around to be in the wrong place? Even then, this is kind of a small space for a doorless. Also, one of those stupid corner shelves and a safety handle way the fuck in the corner. Buy a shower rod and floor length curtain to hang inside the glass wall. It’ll be real fancy.
As a disabled person who can’t sit or stand up doorless showers are my holy grail I could finally feel fucking clean instead of relying on sponge baths.
I could never afford it though and being severely disabled means I’m poor so yay capitalism.
the door on mine is a slider that can be moved with a feather.
No offense intended, but isn’t that why shower rooms were invented? Waterproof the walls/floor with that cheap plastic stuff, curved edges on the walls for easy cleaning, plastic curtain on rails on the ceiling for blocking most of the water. Slope it down into the floor drain. No steps or doors. Is there really no safety net to get this sort of thing installed where you live? I would happily contribute a bit to a gofundme link for this, and I’m sure there’s plenty of others who would too. Example https://www.gofundme.com/f/helping-ric-live-safely-in-his-later-years?cp_src=m . Ideally social services should have grants for this sort of thing though. There may be one you can access depending on where you live, DM me and I’d happily put in a bit of research to help you find out if this is an option.
Edit: UK example https://www.gov.uk/disabled-facilities-grants/what-youll-get
Yeah can’t afford that either. Can’t install anything because I’m renting, can’t be anything but renting because I’m poor.
And the legal system I live under doesn’t have any law to make landlords follow accommodations…
That’s completely fair! Sorry, I underestimated the cost and the problem of getting permission as a renter. I looked into it properly and, although the plastic covering and curtain are cheap, constructing the drainage, sloped floor and waterproofing can still cost around £6,000–£8,500 here. If you’re comfortable saying which country or state you’re in, I’d still be happy to check whether there are any local grants, charities or tenant protections that might help. No need to give your precise location.
I’m sorry I’m unable to share where I live because of privacy concerns. But it’s very nice that you’re trying to help. Hope you have a nice day, cheers :)
(I have however spent a long time exploring all the possibilities and am fairly certain there isn’t much to do for now, bar moving which since I’m rent controlled would probably be impossible financially ahah. So more just a reality of being disabled and unable to work under the system than something that can be fixed at an individual level unfortunately).
I could never afford it though and being severely disabled means I’m poor so yay capitalism.
damn capitalism, you could be dead or in a home somewhere! i bet you’re on welfare as well
What does a doorless shower offer that the same design with a door for that opening doesn’t? I would think there’s some accessible compromise that keeps the floor dry. Of course, the true holy grail would be the showers you sometimes see overseas where there’s a whole compartment built on a drain pan so the open door isn’t an inconvenience.
need to be able to lay in the shower. Elevated threshold makes that impossible.
I’m still not following. Most non-tub showers look exactly like OP’s picture except they have a sliding/swinging door.
What do you mean by elevated threshold? You mean that small ~3inch lip that is also present in OP’s picture?
Ah I see the confusion.
The walk in/doorless shower in my old appartment had no lip, and my current appartment showerr has a 30cm lip.
i assumed all walk/doorless in showers were without the lip but it seems I was wrong.
I’m guessing the difference is the threshold height for the doors. Easier to get a wheelchair over a low or non-existent threshold
Yeah, I don’t get this new trend of doorless showers. One of the many modern interior designs I think are bad/ugly. What’s the deal with modern minimalism? Shit is ugly.
Also, this kind of design is gonna make for cold ass showers in the winter unless you pump your heat all day and night.
yep. had to buy my own door for mine as the installers didnt even include a curtain with their package. tried one before realizing a door is a must
Well that’s just bad design. The opening is wrong so of course it’ll splash and the floor needs to be one level and tilted to the drain.
I’ve seen some really good ones that work
we have one at work that doesn’t have any glass at all, just the plastic fixture. we installed a curtain rod because it felt strange but yeah drain in the shower basin and a decent floor grade, followed up by non-slip tile. Works a treat the whole 2 times I used it.
Came here to say this, if don’t right they’re pretty sweet
Design is fine but it should be placed in the bathroom with tiles not in the midle of living room with wood floor… 😅
Those are ceramic tiles. You can tell by the grout lines.
My friend showers without that glass at all, and water goes all around but thats fine since tiles are all the way up to the celing. So I imagine this makes much less mess than that. Floor should be at angle so all the water goes to drain, dont see the need for those towels…
I’m guessing (hoping) that’s not actual wood
May be, but in bathroom tiles goes to the top unlike here where its just a small botom layer.
I think you dropped this --> /s
English is not my main language, sorry.
Looks like plastic to me. Or ceramic in style of wood.
They’re ceramic tiles; you can tell by the grout lines. Wood and vinyl planks don’t have large gaps in between like that.
I was just about to say, that looks like the wood grain patterned ceramic tiles that are often put in new construction. They’re cheap and trendy(ish). Plus it comes in millennial gray, the landlord/contractor special.
Sorry, are you talking about showers with broken doors, or showers without a door at all?
If the latter, how TF is that supposed to even work? Are we talking like a communal shower, where the door is too far away from the shower for water to splash out?
Its more common in hotels than it should be
The latter. I’ve seen them at some hotels. They’re god awful. The water splashing out isn’t even the worst part. The shower doesn’t get all hot and steamy because it has to get the entire bathroom hot. I travel for work and switched the hotel I was going to just because it had these types of showers.
They shouldn’t. If this is new enough construction, the contractor needs to fix this.
The shower-head is the issue. Doorless installs like that need a rain shower head.
My stand still remains.
People want doorless showers but most of them don’t have the space in their bathroom that would be required to build one that works properly.
Some of them can’t accept that fact and try to build one that relies entirely on the delusion that water respects boundaries.
They’re terrible. Everything you said is true, but I’ll add that unless you crank up the heat in the room, they’re miserable on cold days. The enclosed showers trap the steam and warmth from the how water in with you, but with no door it’s just cold.
Hm. My bathroom is always 23°C or warmer, no matter the weather. When is colder outside, my heat pump delivers more warm water to the heating circuits. Does heating in the US work differently?
Look at this high and mighty European with a heat pump and everything… /s
Most of the heat in the US is electric or gas. In areas where the temps get freezing and below outside, people don’t tend to run it to get the temps into the mid 20s like that.
Does that really make a difference on the bill, are the houses so badly insulated? I always thought that style of building with wooden walls and insulation foam should make heating extremely cheap.
Insulation varies, but even a well insulated house is going to get cold if it’s freezing outside, and it takes energy to get them up to a toasty temp.
Thought that heat lamps might get rid of the chill factor?
I have 3+ meter ceilings in all rooms including the bathroom, and the heat lamps are a godsend in winter.
I’m looking to renovate the bathroom over the coming years and thought that an open space shower might be a great addition but maybe we will reconsider.
I do like the Japanese prefab wet bathroom units, but not sure if they are available here, nor if the other half would approve.
Well, they do, but they’re giant energy hogs. Just have a door on the shower and that stuff isn’t needed.
What you saved on not installing a door you just blew threw by using a heat lamp
That’s 100% a hotel, though.
Hotels love installing these things. They’re cheaper than two large shower doors, they make the room look bigger, and guests think it looks modern.
That said, you’re kind of supposed to pair this with a rain shower head in the ceiling to reduce splash. This looks like a remodeled hotel that didn’t want to move the plumbing. They just did a cheap refresh to make people feel like they were staying in a modern room.
I’ve never once chosen one hotel over another because I saw pictures and said “Oh look, this one has a doorless shower! It looks so modern and spacious.”
I stayed at a hotel in Vegas (of course) that had no doors on theirs. Just an open, locker-room-style shower. And the floor was barely level enough to not flood the bathroom if the shower head was pointed directly at the corner. It was not pointing the right way when I turned it on.
the delusion that water respects boundaries.
Water, the anarchist.
The Conquest of Wet
Who wants one, and why?
I do. But a proper one. All tiled. No glass that is a PITA to keep clean. No curtain that gets disgusting. Just step in, shower, step out.
But that stuff is out of reach to most people, including myself. And to be brutally honest, it is pure excess. But some people are still trying to imitate that with those crappy compact ones but it just ends up being stupid and worse than a normal shower.
That’s cool but I would feel way too vulnerable in that thing. I need a door within sight so I can be prepared in case a zombie appears or something.
That shower is larger than my entire bathroom
I want a public shower someday too
I prefer a pubic shower myself.
You can save water and shower with a bunch of people in that thing.
My dream shower is about that size but also has rain ceiling from 3 stories up. No water saving tho
I do and I have one. The downstairs shower next to the sauna is just an entire tiled room so I don’t feel like I’m in a cramped space. I always use that one, even in the winter when it’s basically freezing down there, because I hate the cramped booth upstairs, I have very broad shoulders and can always feel like I’m going to hit the walls.
The one in the OP is the worst of both worlds though. Still cramped, but doesn’t keep water in like a regular shower booth… and it’s installed in a bathroom without a proper tiled floor…
