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Wall Lighting Wet

Now Your Dream of Owning a Wet-Room Can be a Reality

Imagine the scene - a hilltop villa overlooking the shimmering Mediterranean sea. The Tuscan sun beats down on the travertine tiled floor of the veranda, a single screen of invisibly clean glass shields the cascade of shower water from the gentle honeyed breeze. Bronzed bodies fresh from the salt and sand revel in the open air shower, the glistening water snakes across the tiles and trickles away into the floor level gully. No walls, no restrictions just pure shower freedom.

The wet-room has always conjured images of luxury, design, space and wealth. The dream bathroom everyone will have as soon as the big lottery win happens or their daughter makes it big in the music industry. However what most people don't realise is the reality of the wet-room is now within everyone's reach thanks to huge advances in the engineering of wet floor systems, the ever rising skill of the British bathroom fitter, fantastically designed products and most importantly new ways in which we look at what a bathroom needs to be.

Most people's first thought is "I just don't have the space", but the wet-room concept is about bathroom freedom rather than bathroom space. Utilising a concise and clever bathroom plan will open up your bathroom in ways you never thought possible. For example, water conservation and rising energy bills have sparked a decline in the number of baths being used and installed, and even estate agents aren't insistent on a bath to help sell a property anymore. Because of this the wet floor concept has begun to inhabit the space in a bathroom where the bath used to be.

The wet floor system is a fully waterproof seal that sits level with the existing floor, it can come in the form of a tray, a kit or flexible matting, in most cases a combination of the three. Because the area is so adaptable the wet floor can be any size required, giving you the freedom to have anywhere from just the corner of your room, to the entire floor space completely waterproofed. Anti-slip tiles are then laid with just enough of a slope to ensure that all the water flows towards the drain and in essence that's it. From this point on there are no restrictions and the industry is full of great products to create your perfect wet-room.

A glass screen is seamlessly mounted directly onto the floor, the screen acts as a barrier keeping any spray or puddles in only the place you want. Not only is it stunning to look at but completely functional, no hinges, runners, or mechanisms to collect scale and dirt, or to break over time. Not only giving you the freedom of movement in your bathroom but also the freedom to do something other than scrubbing the lime scale again!

Wall-hung sanitary ware is the perfect choice to compliment a wet floor area as no part of the ceramic is in contact with the floor. Looking effortlessly stylish the concept makes the room feel open and free and throws open the boundaries of what was previously thought possible in a small space.

So choosing the wet room idea for your bathroom means more choice, more space, no restrictions and the all important wow factor. Today there is so much to choose from to make your space something truly spectacular including wall tiles, floor tiles, waterproof panelling ( wall boarding ), chromatherapy lighting, underfloor heating, towel radiators, shower systems, remote controlled options, accessories and even water proof televisions! So if you want real freedom in your bathroom there's never been a better time to go for it!

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Just bought a house and painted two walls...?

light coffee but one wall is showing what looks like two damp patches half way up the wall.
The skirting board is ok, no damp and no salt deposits, the patches are not wet to the touch but look like a leak but they are not wet, the walls were plastered 3 months previous to me moving in...and ideas.
the wall is internal in my front room, no mold or wet patch coming up from the skirting board, the whole room was re plastered and every thing is ok apart from these two wet patches or grease marks half way up the wall...weired

If the house has cavity ties it could be that water is coming across the ties, if this is the external wall. My advice is to buy a Plasplugs damp-meter for less than ten pounds so you can check the level of damp..
The recent re-plastering may also be a clue and it might be worth just being patient and see what happens over the next couple of months, it may just be drying out. Do you know why the walls were re-plastered? It's sometime because there is rising damp and the bottom metre of the original plaster is hacked off, the wall injected with silicone and then the wall re-plastered with waterproof plaster. Occasionally an over-enthusiastic injection may result in some of the silicone being above the level of the new plaster; again the damp-meter should help identify this.

Good luck and don't worry