Choosing the right shower tray while installing a shower system in your bathroom is vitally important as it forms the foundation of shower enclosure. You get these trays in a number of shapes, from a simple rectangle to a pentagon. The large variety of designs is certainly accompanied with a large range of prices too. It depends upon your budget and the kind of looks you want your bathroom to have. This may be a plain simple look or a very luxurious look. But, before you make a hasty decision, you’ll need to consider a few factors.
So where do I start in choosing the perfect shower tray?
Apart from financial budget, the most important factor that decides the tray for your bathroom is the size of your bathroom and the space available for installing the tray. And the most practical way of assessing the available space is to make a drawing of your bathroom and consider different possibilities for placing your bathroom fixtures and sanitary wares.
Though a shower enclosure may be located anywhere in the bathroom, its exact location is dependent on the location of doors, windows and other fixtures as well the shape of the tray you like to install.
Certainly, you would like to have a roomy area for the shower with convenient entry and exit points, but other bathroom fixtures should not crowd the space.
For the purpose it will be worth consulting your plumber who can know the present layout of the piping and assess the requirements and route of further piping, if required. The plumber will be able to help deciding the position of fixtures and joists.
Once you have taken into consideration all the above parameters, you are better equipped to choose your ideally suited shape of your shower tray. Well, there is no dearth of shapes and sizes of shower trays, which are available in square, rectangular, pentangle, quadrant, offset quadrant, offset pentangle shapes. You may have it in “U’ shape, better known as a “D” shaped shower tray.
The perfect shower tray for the bathroom depends upon many factors, most important of which are the space available for its installation, your financial budget and the style you like to have.
For a better understanding of the subject you may seek the help of a plumber or get in touch with a bathroom supplier for expert guidance on the kind of tray that will be most suitable for your bathroom.
