The difference between a wetroom and a shower pretending to be one is everything you never see: the tanking membrane, the gradient in the floor, the drainage spec, and the edge detail where the tile meets the door threshold.
A proper wetroom is a tanked room. The entire wet area — the walls up to shoulder height, the floor out to the door, and the transitions in and out — sits under a continuous waterproof membrane before a single tile goes down. The tile is a decorative layer. The tanking is the waterworks.
We build wetrooms to a hotel-spa standard. Gradient floors cut into the joists so water finds the linear drain by gravity alone. Underfloor heat routed to dry the floor between uses. Frameless glass screens specified to marine-grade silicone seal. Level-access thresholds where mobility calls for them.
Every wetroom is tanked, fall-tested and wet-tested before the tile is scheduled. We do not leave that sequence to the tiler. That is a building discipline, which is why our wetroom programmes are built around the tanking, not around the tile delivery date.
Liquid-applied or sheet membrane, carried up walls to shoulder height and across the entire floor, sealed into the drain and into every pipe penetration. Tested wet before tiling.
Cut into the joists or laid in screed so every square metre of wet floor finds the drain by gravity. No puddles, no slow drainers, no tile sitting flat and begging for standing water.
A linear channel drain — typically against the wall — lets the entire floor run in a single plane. Faster draining, larger tile formats, cleaner visual than a corner gully.
Where mobility or ageing-in-place is part of the brief, we detail the door threshold flush with the finished floor. No lip, no trip, no compromise on waterproofing.
Every wetroom we build runs UFH. It dries the floor between uses, which is half of what keeps a wetroom clean and dry in the long term. Zoned on a programmable thermostat.
A wetroom doesn’t have to look modern. We have fitted period-detailed wetrooms behind the doors of Edwardian villas and Victorian cottages. The build spec is the same; the finishes adapt.
Free consultation at our Monifieth showroom, or we come to you. Free drawn proposal returned within two weeks.
A consultation at our Monifieth showroom, or a visit to yours. We will take the brief, walk the space, and come back with honest options and a written scope.