Ratatouille wrote:DD wanted to install something similar from the same company in the house next door but the plumber wouldn't unless it also had grab rails and a shelf/container for toiletries. he said current regulations wouldn't allow it because it is not safe to have to bend down to pick up the soap !
As I get less mobile I can absolutely see the point.
StokeySue wrote:I've used a couple in hotels, they seem to be fine IF the water drains away fast enough
Speaking of hotels - if the shower is the kind that is a thermostatic mixer, as mine is, mixing hot from the combi with cold, hotels always have surface mounted ones. They don't look as nice as conceled ones perhaps but they are cheaper and,more importantly, once fitted they can be replaced by a competent handyman quite simply, and the thermostat is the only component likely to wear out and need replacing. Took me ages (and some cash)to work that out
suffolk wrote:Has he never heard of soap on a rope?
StokeySue wrote:Sury if water doesn't drain efficiently from a shower over a bath it doesn't really matter, a bath can hold around 80 litres of water. But a shower tray only holds - what - 15 or 20 litres?
Remember Teresa found her wet room did not work without a pump
StokeySue wrote:As an ex-chemist, soap is very much synthetic! And however you make it soap is chemically much the same - what makes it soap is a
To a scientist soap is definitely synthetic - and all soaps are chemically related, and I'm pretty sure it's soap my skin doesn't like
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