Anti-Slip Shower Trays?

[MAB]

I am about to install a 1700 x 800 walk in shower tray in a new ensuite in my recently built bedroom extension and wondered if anyone had any thoughts or recommendations on suitable shower trays with some sort of anti slip coating or feature if possible? Our existing main bathroom has an 800 x 800 shower tray with a ribbed surface which works ok but is maybe more difficult to clean than a smooth surface, most of the large trays I have seen are very smooth and shiny but some have an anti slip coating as an extra cost option. Thanks in advance for any help.

Edited April 8, 2017 by MAB

[bassanclan]

If you imagine 1-2mm grains of sand glued to the floor of the tray, then that's what the texture is like.

 

Usually you wont see anti slip on display in showrooms etc

[Guest Alphonsox]

Does it have to be a shower tray ? We laid Altro Aquarius vinyl flooring in our granny annex wetroom - the same stuff is used in hospitals. Feels like sandpaper and is guaranteed for 10 years.

 

http://www.altro.co.uk/Altro-Aquarius

[Ferdinand]

I guess you could use a sacrificial or washable insert cut to size. Horse matting or the trad rubber material for matts used in baths to prevent a-over-t slippage by grandma springs to mind, but I am sure people have better suggestions.

 

I second the use of commercial but aesthetic wet-room or changing room lining materials. I have these in bathrooms in student houses refurbished in about 2012 for the entire bathroom floor so they cannot inundate the room below easily, and 4 years later they seem to be as solid as a rock. 

 

(Update: so I remember we used Polyflor Polysafe Hydro in Woodland Grey and it cost about £300 for the floor in a compact bathroom, fitted. They key was finding someone who was inexpensive to fit. And we did 4 bathrooms :-) ),

http://www.polyflor.com/jh/products.nsf/products!open&family=saf&prodcode=fxsc151

A related point is perhaps to make sure that there is a grab rail or handle available.

 

Once a year spriing clean with a pressuree washer?

 

Ferdinand

 

Edited April 12, 2017 by Ferdinand

[Jeremy Harris]

Some friends of ours have a bamboo slatted duck board in their shower, and we're thinking of doing the same.  It's non-slip and looks fairly easy to take out and clean.

[MAB]

Thanks for the advice......the only anti slip I have actually seen was on a small sample panel in a local supplier and the texture was like sand as mentioned above.

 

I might go with one of these trays with a ribbed drying area as a compromise.......this Simpsons tray looks the same as the Zamori in links below but cheaper?

Simpsons:-

https://www.victorianbathrooms4u.com/shower-enclosures/shower-trays/walk-in/simpsons-1700-x-800mm-walk-in-35mm-shower-tray-with-drying-area/

Zamori:-

http://www.zamori.co.uk/Products/ProductDetail?prodId=81022&name=Walk-In 1700 x 800 shower tray anti-bacterial %26 anti-slip

[Ferdinand]

@MAB

 

Are those plastic trays, or stone resin?

 

I have bought my recent showers from sources discovered via ebay. The last ones were from UK manufacturers who maintained an ebay shop.

For example, here is a stone resin one with a drying area which is about £250 in your size including raised legs and fastflow waste

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rectangle-Shower-Tray-with-Drying-Area-Low-Profile-Stone-Resin-Acrylic-Capped-/262453435127?var=&hash=item3d1b719af7:m:mjHGTupoOJkD72qT2tt-ckQ

(Free delivery E&W :-) !

 

You need to dig a little for the one you want. There also seem to be antislip ones too.

 

If you are planning a fixed screen (you want the 8mm type with a bracing bar at the top) then they are from around £300.

eg Stone Resin 800x1700 bnut not drying area with side panel and flipper panel (which I would leave off) for £250.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Wet-Room-Walk-In-Shower-Enclosure-and-Tray-Glass-Screen-Cubicle-Flipper-Panel-/282194371739?var=&hash=item41b418649b:m:mMClUuukEIRK0pd2nvCOt1g

 

(Buggers to carry upstairs - ours below in a student house took 4 people to move the screens up 2 storeys)

 

Ferdinand

 

'orrible photos but show what I mean. These have been in a student house since 2013 without a tremor. The screen and tray were about £300 each incl. waste and delivery. That floor is Ployflor Polysafe Hydro (hotel spas, shower areas, swimming pool surrounds etc) at about £300 a pop fitted in 4 bathrooms at once.

http://polyflor.com/jh/products.nsf/products!open&family=saf&prodcode=fxsc151

 

 

Edited April 12, 2017 by Ferdinand