Conserning Acrylic & Steel shower trays

The importance of the bathroom within modern day living & households has changed rapidly. To many it is representative of an investment, status, reflection of personality, and is central to home life, so, the bathroom no longer only serves a solo purpose. Many use their bathroom to relax after a hard day, to get time to think away from distractions, a place of reflection, and occasionally used as a central family area. Whilst this new perception of the bathroom space is an increasing new trend, when designing or renovating a bathroom space, many people forfeit style, functionality, and durability, over price, particularly when choosing a new shower tray.

Naturally most focus and budget is spent on the central features of the bathroom space, but the shower tray has a very important role to play, particularly if your focus is showering over bathing. Having a floor seated shower can give a contemporary look to the whole shower area and can be more practical for cleaning purposes.

Everyone has to work to a budget of course, but think about how long you would like your shower tray to last and maintain pristine condition. If you are in need of a quick fix solution then an Acrylic shower tray may be more suited, as a general rule they are cheaper to manufacture therefore cheaper to buy.

Standard Acrylic shower trays being the less expensive of the two have a comparatively short shelf life compared to it steel counterparts. The material between the two is self explanatory; steel is a solid metal that conducts heat well and is naturally more durable, Acrylic is usually an ICI vacuum formed acrylic sheet reinforced with fibre glass.

The two react very differently to different things. Acrylic shower trays as a general rule will sun bleach quite quickly, where as steel shower trays will not. This is of course dependant on the material used in the shower trays finish. Both types of shower tray are easy to clean and acrylic is a none-porous material so will wipe clean very easily.

Heat distribution is worth consideration; some Acrylic shower trays are filled with heat conducting material that distribute the heat evenly, whereas Steel shower trays, although being a successful heat conductor, can lose temperature rapidly and is more responsive to subtle variants.

Most Acrylic and Steel shower trays are warp resistant but it is always worth checking the manufacturer notes and sales documents to check for these nuances in performance. Features like warping, slip resistance, scratch resistance, and lengthy guarantees are viewed as a positive product sales features so will be mentioned in catalogues or websites.

Another important aspect in making your choice is safety. If you have elderly people or young children in the household, or are likely to trip on a step then a practical solution would be to have a floor level shower tray. A floor level shower tray is recessed into the floor of your bathroom surface. Kaldewei provide various steel enamel shower tray solutions in this style, they use an ESR frame that the shower tray is installed into. The main advantages of this system are, firstly, a very easy installation, an ESR provides durable protection against damage caused by water seepage, as can occur when a silicone seal is not intact, and this type of damage is an avoidable expense if ESR systems are used.

All in all there are many manufacturers producing some exceptional products that suit all budgets and all design needs. The best advice is to buy a good quality shower tray first and save yourself having to replace it in a few years time.

Bathroom Solutions Sponsors young boxing stars championship

Bathroom solutions (Leicester) Ltd proudly announce our sponsorship of the 2009 Clubs for Young People Senior Boxing Championships.

The national boxing championships has been a keystone event attracting thousands of aspiring young boxers from across the UK and is also responsible for producing dozens of professional champions throughout the years, among them are the great Amir Khan, Barry McGuigan, Sir Henry Cooper and many others.

Director of Bathroom solutions (Leicester) Ltd Karl Donaghey who attended the championship said “I was very impressed with the standard and immense quality of the fighters tonight. I can see a very bright future ahead for these guys.”

When asked about the sponsorship and how he got involved Mr Donaghey stated “I’ve always been a fan of boxing, it’s a superb sport and the organisers here are doing such a valuable job to nurture the young talent this country has, so really it was the least I could do.”

The national clubs for young people provide an excellent platform and a disciplined environment for many sports based activities and the extensive youth work carried out by many volunteers is a credit to all communities involved across the length and breadth of the country.

A huge well done to all the participants.

Curry Night

The staff from bathroom solutions (Leicester) Ltd invited a group of clients, trades people, and suppliers for a fantastic networking event last night, hosted at the wonderful swatlands in oadby last night.

The purpose of the evening was networking and to allow exposure to various new innovations in the bathroom industry, with presentation and displays from Bristan (Headley), Kaldewei (James) & HSK (Andy).

The products were well recived and gave a lot of food for thougt when deciding and purchasing bathroom products.

The new Tap and Brassware features displayed by Bristan showed innovation and supreme safety features ideal for hospital, public or care areas with a thermostatic shower and bath filler combined in the appearance of a dual lever mixer, each lever allows control over shower and bath flow/teperature seperately.

HSK shower enclosures & Kaldewei steel enamel shower trays showed that they form the perfect partnership, with supreme design and dureability from both. The HSK shower enclosures in displayed the new designes they have with smooth as silk slide action mechanism being a revelation to many.

Many tradespeople attended the event that was as bathroom solutions owner Karl Donaghey "not just chance for a beer and a curry but a good excuse".

All-in-all a successfull fun night had by all.

All of the products presented during the evening are available from the bathroom solutions website or in the showroom location:

Bathroom Solutions (Leicester) LTD
291 Leicester Road
Wigston Fields
Leicester
LE181JW