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1 One more tip on wash basins. If you are creating a special bathroom for children, prefer half pedestal wash basins. Pedestals of half-pedestal washbasins don’t rest on floor, are hung type and yet have a height that is convenient for children. Also use special WC with a concealed cistern. Children have to just press a knob to release water. Choose Seat lids in fancy colours and with motifs. Don’t forget to install toilet paper holder and towel rail at a lower height convenient to children.
2 Many types of showers are now available. These include hand showers, over head showers, body showers, rain dance showers and hydro massage showers. Further, different spray modes are available in these showers. These include soft spray, normal spray, turbo spray, massage spray, rain spray and whirl spray. Cost per shower varies from Rs. 150 to Rs. 23000.00. Purpose of bathing is to have a complete and satisfying bath. So choose an overhead shower coupled with a telephonic hand shower and avoid wasteful expenditure on fancy items.
3 Keep the shower rose in a corner and not in the middle of the wall. A shower at the centre leaves whole of the bathroom wet. If the space permits, prefer to have a 2.5'X2.5' cubicle for shower as a separate entity. Keep the walls of cubicle as semi-transparent to have the feel of full bathroom. Otherwise provide plastic curtains to create a shower enclosure. These days, providing shower cubicles in bathroom is becoming very popular as it permits the use of bathroom both by working husband and wife at the same time.
4 Develop a small nitch of size 9"X6" into the wall at a height of 2’6”from the floor and below the shower to enable you to place your foot there to wash your legs and feet turn by turn. This little provision may prove extremely useful. Also, always keep the shower unit and the bathtub separate. One shouldn’t have to stand in the tub for taking a shower. Also see that bathtubs have grip handles. Children and elder people often need them.
5 Try simple 4 or 6 inch diameter circular or octagonal overhead shower. A 4 inch dia shower should have 145 holes, each of 1.2 mm diameter. Fit the shower at least 2.1 meters above floor level or higher if the space permits. However, see that the minimum vertical distance between the point of shower and the placement position of water tank above is one metre. More is this distance, more will be pressure of water in the shower. Prefer a movable shower so that you and other family members could adjust it to convenient angles.
6 There are shower families available these days. A family of showers consists of an overhead shower, a shower arm, 4 to 6 body showers, shut off valves, diverters and outlets. Cost varies from Rs. 60000 to Rs. 1.25 lacs. All these showers are installed at different levels, aimed at different parts of the body. Then there are shower panels available, costing Rs. 30000 to Rs. 1.50 lacs. These panels are hung on a wall bracket and contain many sprays and jets at different angles. There are flexible hoses, lights, soap shelves etc also provided on the panels. Even a transformer and thermostat is provided in some of them to have water at required temperature, to create fog or rain and to generate moonlight. Next to shower panels are the ultimate shower temples which fall in the range of Rs. 6 to 8 lacs. These shower temples are complete shower cabins, electronically operated and also having steam units, speakers for music, halogen lights, folding seats and even a surge shower that has a water-fall like effect on the person taking bath. Top brand is Hansgrohe of Germany, now freely available in India. Have one if you ever hit a jackpot.
7 Put a mirror for full width of a wall to have the feeling of a double sized bathroom. However, see that the electric lights are so fixed above the mirrors that the light falls on the face of the person and not on the mirrors.
8 In bathrooms, often provided are glass louvered windows but these prove to be a waste as these are not open-able for reasons of privacy. Convert these windows into shelves by providing frosted glass at the back and glass shelves in front. Install a good and effective exhaust fan in each bathroom, operated by a pull cord switch. This is the most effective form of ventilation.
More tips will follow next week. Till then, happy building!
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See that the Synthetic enamel paint you choose is as per IS 2932 not IS 2933.
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