A beautiful shower enclosure fitted with the right shower tray can enhance the design and elegance of your bathroom multifold.
Much easier to maintain, safer and cheaper than the slippery bathroom tiles, they are a better option over tiles in your shower enclosure.
As more and more people are opting for trays instead of tiles, the selection range in terms of designs, shapes and features has also diversified.
Here is your comprehensive guide to help you in making the right purchase decision.
Price: Depending on the material they are made up of, shower trays vary in prices.
Stone ones are costlier than resin or acrylic.
Choose the option that best fits your budget without any significant tradeoff between price and quality.
Size: Available in various sizes from 760 mm to 1200 mm.
You can choose from a wide assortment of trays depending on the size of your shower enclosure.
Shape: Shape of a shower tray is one of the most important considerations in making the purchase decision.
If you are planning to buy, then you must decide on the shape based on the merit of one shape over another and its suitability to your shower enclosure.
Some common shapes are: Square: Square models are one of the most conventional type.
Because they tend to occupy least floor space for a given dimension they are also one of the most popular tray shapes.
Rectangular: This shape is ideal for narrower bathrooms.
This shape maximizes the showering area while minimizing the floor occupancy.
Quadrant: Shaped in the form of a sector of a circle, this is shape is one of the more contemporary shower tray designs.
This shape of shower trays is ideal for corner placement.
Pentangle: Neo angle or Pentangle shape of shower trays are a more modern design shape.
Pentangle trays have five sides.
This shape not only makes it ideal for corner placement but also allows more showering space within a given dimension.
From small dimensions such as 800x800x50 to large dimensions such as 1000x100x150, pentangle models certainly make very chic and ultra modern bathroom statements.
The beauty of the Pentangle style lies in the fact that they can even be fitted between two bathroom fixtures or with hinged or bi fold doors to maximize available bathroom space.