For those homeowners who are looking for new style ideas for a bathroom redesign, wet room showers are very popular. Wet room showers are in essence a form of no threshold shower. Linear drains for showers are used to construct wet room showers, and they help to keep water in the shower area and out of other parts of the bathroom that you want to stay dry.
Many contractors choose to install a linear drain shower as part of the creation of wet room showers. The first step in the process of putting in a linear drain shower is to decide where you want the floor drain to be placed. After this comes the digging of the channel or trench to accommodate the linear drain components. Because the trench is crafted so that it is below the finished floor level in the trench drain shower, the final result is that when the linear drain is in place in the trench, the floor drain is level with the finished floor. A single slope must be created in the shower floor so that gravity will cause the water to flow into the drain.
The linear drain in the linear drain shower can be placed in a number of different ways. Many people choose to place the trench drain right in front of the shower door. In this way, you do not have to use edges around the shower pan in order to keep the water in the shower, because it simply drains into the linear drain before reaching other dry areas of the bathroom. This type of no threshold shower system also means that you can do away with shower doors completely, giving your bathroom a very open feel. If the bathroom is large, you can run multiple floor drains along the bottom of the floor slope. If you prefer, you can run glass shower doors all the way to the floor, thereby expanding the bathroom space visually, because nothing breaks the line from floor to ceiling when using a trench drain shower.
Top interior designers use linear drains for showers because it allows for greater design flexibility. For instance, with a traditional round floor drain, your construction team would need to build a subfloor with multiple planes to accommodate the round drain. Because of the multiple slopes in place, only small tile, four inches quare or less in size, can be used around the round drain. The linear drain shower has only one slope, so you can use larger pieces of stone or tile in your shower area, have more design options while saving on building labor costs at the same time.