I like the Japanese style ones where the entire bathroom is the shower. The floor is meant to be wet with the benefit of just being able to spray the entire bathroom down when it needs cleaning.
This one just makes no sense.
That floor is not meant to be in a bath tho
Come to Korea! Many bathrooms are just closets with a toilet and a sink with a shower head attached and you just shower in the bathroom and soak anything that's in there.
As a disabled person who can’t sit or stand up doorless showers are my holy grail I could finally feel fucking clean instead of relying on sponge baths.
I could never afford it though and being severely disabled means I’m poor so yay capitalism.
No offense intended, but isn't that why shower rooms were invented? Waterproof the walls/floor with that cheap plastic stuff, curved edges on the walls for easy cleaning, plastic curtain on rails on the ceiling for blocking most of the water. Slope it down into the floor drain. No steps or doors. Is there really no safety net to get this sort of thing installed where you live? I would happily contribute a bit to a gofundme link for this, and I'm sure there's plenty of others who would too. Example https://www.gofundme.com/f/helping-ric-live-safely-in-his-later-years?cp_src=m . Ideally social services should have grants for this sort of thing though. There may be one you can access depending on where you live, DM me and I'd happily put in a bit of research to help you find out if this is an option.
Edit: UK example https://www.gov.uk/disabled-facilities-grants/what-youll-get
Yeah can’t afford that either. Can’t install anything because I’m renting, can’t be anything but renting because I’m poor.
And the legal system I live under doesn’t have any law to make landlords follow accommodations…
That’s completely fair! Sorry, I underestimated the cost and the problem of getting permission as a renter. I looked into it properly and, although the plastic covering and curtain are cheap, constructing the drainage, sloped floor and waterproofing can still cost around £6,000–£8,500 here. If you’re comfortable saying which country or state you’re in, I’d still be happy to check whether there are any local grants, charities or tenant protections that might help. No need to give your precise location.
the door on mine is a slider that can be moved with a feather.
Meh. They can work if you have the space for them. This one is way to small. But I’ve seen really nice ones executed. You just need more space than most people have for the shower to occupy.
Doorless showers are great for the elderly, disabled, orgies, you name it- WHEN DONE RIGHT. This is far from correct. The shower spray should be spraying away from the entry, not right fucking at it. It's puzzling because it looks like the control valve is on the near side so they routed the head all the way around to be in the wrong place? Even then, this is kind of a small space for a doorless. Also, one of those stupid corner shelves and a safety handle way the fuck in the corner. Buy a shower rod and floor length curtain to hang inside the glass wall. It'll be real fancy.
Yeah, I don't get this new trend of doorless showers. One of the many modern interior designs I think are bad/ugly. What's the deal with modern minimalism? Shit is ugly.
Also, this kind of design is gonna make for cold ass showers in the winter unless you pump your heat all day and night.
People want doorless showers but most of them don't have the space in their bathroom that would be required to build one that works properly.
Some of them can't accept that fact and try to build one that relies entirely on the delusion that water respects boundaries.
They're terrible. Everything you said is true, but I'll add that unless you crank up the heat in the room, they're miserable on cold days. The enclosed showers trap the steam and warmth from the how water in with you, but with no door it's just cold.
That's 100% a hotel, though.
Hotels love installing these things. They’re cheaper than two large shower doors, they make the room look bigger, and guests think it looks modern.
That said, you’re kind of supposed to pair this with a rain shower head in the ceiling to reduce splash. This looks like a remodeled hotel that didn’t want to move the plumbing. They just did a cheap refresh to make people feel like they were staying in a modern room.
the delusion that water respects boundaries.
Water, the anarchist.
Not only that, the draft coming in makes you freezing cold the entire time, forcing you to huddle under the water for most of your shower, thus wasting it and washing away the soap you're trying to lather in.
A hotel I stayed at once had this exact same shower and I can confirm that water did in fact get everywhere. I wouldn't be surprised if the building collapsed after a few years due to water damage rotting/eroding away the support beams under the floor.
When I used to install custom shower enclosures, I would quietly cringe every time someone wanted one of these awful things. What I would usually compromise with the customer on is, size the panel so that the walk-through opening was sized correctly to accept a stock door, if they want to add one later. I'd say more than half of clients would add the door less than a year later.
Well that's just bad design. The opening is wrong so of course it'll splash and the floor needs to be one level and tilted to the drain.
I've seen some really good ones that work
They shouldn't. If this is new enough construction, the contractor needs to fix this.
The shower-head is the issue. Doorless installs like that need a rain shower head.
The opening is too wide, the shower head should be a rainfall shower, not the Commando 450.
Wouldn't a handheld showerhead be even better? That way, you could aim the showerhead directly away from the opening, somewhat reducing the incidence of splashing.
I know from experience that it's not sufficient, but I'm certain it minimizes the damage, and honestly I consider handheld showerheads to be superior regardless
Then ... then put a door on it!
Was the contractor sick? Did they get kidnapped by ICE and moved to one of their gulags? Is there a glass shortage in your area? Are you really cheap, and just didn't want to pay for the full thing? Was Dinah Lance showering in there, and the water suddenly turned cold because someone flushed the toilet, and she screamed, shattering the glass? Did someone steal it because they needed to melt it down and reconfigure it for a place to store one of their victim's freshly-lopped heads?
Calm down, it looks like a hotel.
This is becoming a staple in cheap and mid-price hotels. I have to use half my towels to keep the floor from being wet.
Question on this... Why would you do that? Like 1 medium towel vaguely covers the wet area and its not like your probably sub-one-week stay is going to hurt anything if there is permanent water damage.
That just looks like an unfinished shower, or a sliding door set with a missing half. Maybe you could get a little shower curtain to hang up across the hole
I encountered this exact setup at a hotel recently. This seems like a hotel as well with how those bottles are attached to the wall
Why even have a doorless/curtainless shower? I don't understand the appeal. How is the warmth supposed to stay in so you're not shaving off the tips of goosebumps?
Shower doors are difficult to clean well, shower curtains stick to the body, space is limited (problem if you're bigger), steam can make it harder to breathe...
Finns have figured out doorleess showers: they waterproof the whole room and equip it with a squeegee on a long stick. The floor is flat with a slight slope towards the drain. After you're done you just wipe the floor with the squeegee (takes 10 seconds) and that's it.
yep. had to buy my own door for mine as the installers didnt even include a curtain with their package. tried one before realizing a door is a must
Every hotel ever these days it seems. I guess it’s cheaper than replacing a curtain, or the curtain rod every jackass seems to have to yank on and bend for some reason.
Sorry, are you talking about showers with broken doors, or showers without a door at all?
If the latter, how TF is that supposed to even work? Are we talking like a communal shower, where the door is too far away from the shower for water to splash out?
Its more common in hotels than it should be
The latter. I've seen them at some hotels. They're god awful. The water splashing out isn't even the worst part. The shower doesn't get all hot and steamy because it has to get the entire bathroom hot. I travel for work and switched the hotel I was going to just because it had these types of showers.
That is not enough clearance, the door needed to be way longer
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