Sliding doors
When faced with the issue of choosing a shower enclosure it is important to remember that a shower enclosure is meant to be a door. It may not have sides, but it is meant to be a doorway to help you enter the shower, and then protect the floor from water damage.
When you have taken the time to measure exactly where you want your shower enclosure to go you have to think about where you want the door to open out into. This has been a perennial problem for a number of years. Many homeowners have in fact found that they cannot have a shower enclosure in a compact space because there really is not enough room to open out the enclosure door into.
And then sliding doors came along. This solved that problem in an instant. Now homeowners could have all the comfort and practicality of a standalone shower enclosure, and in the smallest of spaces. Coming in glass or plastic materials, the enclosures made it easy for bathrooms to be planned even when the rooms themselves were not exactly generous in size.
Add to this the fact that you can buy bi-fold shower doors, and the options open to you as a homeowner are many. This particular variation on a shower enclosure means that you can fold in the door on the rail, again attaining that maximum usage of space.
Shower enclosures do come in many different styles and you can be forgiven for feeling a little overwhelmed the first time you step into a retail outlet. They have many style finishes, with some finished in chrome, some in glass. There are also options that effectively mean that the enclosure doesn’t have a frame. While highly stylised, the construction and design of these enclosures means that they are practical, and easy to clean.
Each of the by now hundreds of different designs and finishes are made with the aim of making your bathroom an easier place to use, so you are likely to find something that will suit your needs soon enough. A few things need to be borne in mind though, before you rush out and buy an enclosure.
Make absolutely certain that you know how your bathroom is going to look and feel before you start buying materials and fittings for it. Once a shower tray and shower enclosure are in, for example, taking them out requires a huge amount of work. If you are using a professional fitter, then you can expect a massive expense too.
You also must be careful to make sure that, if you are buying an enclosure with a door that opens outwards (there are some exceptionally attractive ones out there) and you have a small space, you take care to measure the space the door opens into. If you do not, and you assume you can have such an opening in a small space, you may be unpleasantly surprised.
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