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Bristan Contemporary Shower Kit 103
Installing a showerhead above your bath is an option that many people take because it is relatively cheap and simple to implement. You will also need either a shower curtain or shower screens to stop water spilling over the top of the bath into the room. Shower screens look nicer and work better but they are more difficult to fit.
Many people install showers in their baths successfully but I have to say that a number of people that I know have done this and have suffered from water leaks as a result of the installation. I'm not sure of the reasons for this but it might have something to do with the problems of sealing the bathtub to the ceramic tiles on the wall.
When a bathtub is full of water it is very heavy and the sealer can fail under the strain. Worse still, because the sealer sticks very well to the bath and tiles if applied correctly, the strain of the weight in the bath can pull the tiles off the wall and crack the grout and even the tiles themselves. This is when the leaks will start to happen during showering.
I simply don't like showering in the bathtub because it seems such a makeshift arrangement.
Build a shower into an alcove
Putting a shower into an alcove in a small bathroom can sometimes make efficient use of the space available. You have to be lucky enough to have the right shaped bathroom to use this technique though. I'm not sure that I've ever seen one myself.
Convert your small bathroom into a wet room
By converting the floor of your bathroom into a huge shower tray and drain you are left free to put a shower wherever you like because it won't matter where the water goes.
I hate this idea because it means that whenever you take a shower everything in the bathroom gets wet. That means the washbasin, toilet, bathtub, towels and the entire floor. Everything gets soaked and it's horrible. It can also be very expensive to turn your bathroom into a wet room and to my mind it just isn't worth it.
Use a curved quadrant small bathroom shower
Once I had figured out that I could just about fit a square
shower cubicle in the corner of my small bathroom I knew that I was on the right
track. By moving all the other fixtures in the bathroom around I could make
enough room for a small, square based, shower enclosure, but it was very tight.
There wasn't going to be much room to move in the bathroom once the enclosure
was installed.