Handicap Shower Stalls

Modern shower stalls today surely look sleek and stylish. Adding a shower stall in addition to your bathtub if you have the available space could be a fantastic way to improve the look of your bathroom. Although many people enjoy a relaxing bath in the tub, a quick shower is usually the more practical and convenient option with all the time constraints that our busy and hectic lifestyles and schedules have. Think of the luxury that you have, having the choice.

Showers come in all kinds of designs and styles from which you can choose from. You could decide based on the functions that you need or on the style of your bathroom. Today, the ones which are made using tempered glass are the more popular choice. This is because glass would be able let light pass through, helping in the creation of an open and fresh feeling in an otherwise small and cramped room. Another popular option would be the acrylic model.  They are designed to be leak free and easy to keep clean. A well made model should provide many years of performance.

For those people with special needs or disabilities, the standard stall may not be the best and easiest to use. As you could probably tell, the standard bathtub side wall could pose as a quite difficult obstacle to overcome if you have some form of disability or are using a wheelchair. Fortunately, though, many manufacturers and builders today have already realized and considered this, resulting to numerous good options for convenient handicap shower stalls.

A lot of bathtubs take up around an area of 5 feet and you could easily get shower bases which would perfectly fit in a standard tub footprint after removing the bathtub.

Also good news would be that water lines and drains usually line up with shower bases like these. However, in most cases, new surround walls need to be installed so that everything would match up. And because you are just installing a shower base, you would have a lot of different options available to you to use as your wall materials, like tile or fiberglass.

After opening up the walls, you need to install backing support boards so you would be able to add grab bars and rails to your shower stall. You can finish everything off with some specially floor-mounted shower doors that would be able to complete a large and safe handicap shower stall.