The glass shower installed in the bathroom cannot be blamed for spoiling the interior of the room. Glass just harmoniously coexists with almost all materials: metal, wood, ceramic tiles, natural stone. In addition, with the help of a shower cabin, water is saved, because bathing in a shower, we spend several times less water than taking a bath.
Varieties of designs
Shower cabins are:
- open (without a top panel), for the installation of which you need ideal walls in the places of its attachment - they are inexpensive;
- closed (with a roof), protecting the bathroom from excessive moisture is a more expensive option.
The simplest booth only has doors and a pallet. This design is called a shower enclosure.If you do not install a pallet, then you should how to prepare the floor, which means pouring it with concrete, organizing the correct drain and tiling the floor.
The closed design has more advantages. It is dismantled for collection elsewhere or transportation to another location. With an open option, such a number will not work.
Important! A shower box is a combination of a bathtub and a shower cabin. It has a tray the size of a standard bath, and it also has all the features of a shower stall. Based on their dimensions of the box, he will need a lot of free space in the room.
Advantages and disadvantages
For many, glass showers are a tough choice. Consider its advantages and disadvantages. Pros:
- thanks to the glass, the room visually enlarges, which is good for people who suffer from claustrophobia and are afraid of confined spaces;
- inexpensive price;
- compact design, so it needs a minimum of space;
- ease of assembly, as there are few parts in the overall design;
- additional air circulation due to the absence of the top panel.
The disadvantages of a glass shower cabin include only a small set of functions in it.
Characteristics
The glass shower cabin is made of non-window glass. It looks more like a car. Tempered glass is thermally treated, which causes the presence of residual stress on the surface. This affects the increase in strength many times over that of the ordinary one, and also affects the safety of the sheet. If the glass door of the booth somehow breaks, then it crumbles into small fragments with blunt edges that are not capable of severely injuring a person.
In the case of using a triplex (“sandwich” made of glass and polymer), in general, the fragments of the sheet shape remain for some time due to the fact that the inner layer is a polymer material.
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