Making repairs in the bathroom, everyone is faced with the following question: what to give preference: a standard bath or a functional shower cabin?! To answer this question, it is necessary to compare all the advantages of baths and showers. Let’s look at each of the possible advantages.
1. Saving money. Some people are of the opinion that the water consumption in the shower is much less. This opinion is wrong. The water consumption in the shower is the same as for filling a full bathtub, if not more. This is especially true for those who like to spend a long time basking in the warm stream of water. An economical alternative — a sitting bath for small bathrooms. This saves at least 30 liters of water.
Sitting Bath
2. Economy of space. Modern shower cabins, take up about as much space as a standard bathtub. Since the showers have not only full-fledged doors, but also their own walls and ceiling (for the device of hydro-massage equipment). Sitting baths because of the inconvenience in use, do not enjoy much popularity today. Saving space will help the corner version of the bathtub, this type is perfect for small bathrooms.
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Alternatively you can install a corner shower with floor drain. To install it, you will have to think about waterproofing, and the floor level during the installation of the shower ladder to raise by 15 cm.
Corner bath
Shower Cabin
3. Whirlpool. To date, there are several types of water massage: «aero», when a jet of air comes through the water flow, «hydro» — a stream of water under pressure rushes out of the nozzle nozzles, combined — a combination of air and water jet. The bathtub can contain all three types of massage, the shower cabin with a hydro-massage respectively one hydro-massage. But despite the functionality of the bath with three types of massage, it has a significant drawback: after each use it will have to be very carefully washed, otherwise the jets will soon be clogged. In addition, in most models, the combination of massage and foam is excluded.
Shower cubicle with hydromassage
The plus in favor of the shower stall: you can not buy a special whirlpool stall, if you have a regular one, you just need to replace a simple shower rack on the whirlpool. Even cheaper to do without a shower counter at all and build nozzles directly into the wall.
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Savings in material resources. Replacing the bathtub with a shower cabin requires significant financial costs. Moving and redesigning plumbing costs about a quarter more than conventional repairs with the arrangement of the item.
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