When you makeover a bathroom or shower room

Avoid the risk of trips and slips, make space to move around, select simple controls.

• Fit a shower tray with a low cill.
   

• Choose a floor covering that is designed to be slip-resistant when wet, or a carpet.
   

• Select a smaller basin to increase space to move around
   

• Fit taps and mixers with lever handles.

Limit the temperature of the hot water supply to a bath or bidet if it is being fitted for the first time in a particular room or if the bath or bidet is replaced and its position is changed.

Fit an anti-scald device, such as a TMV (thermostatic mixing valve) as close as possible to the bath or bidet.

Get specialist advice before fitting a floor-draining ‘wet room’ on an upper storey. It’s a job for professionals, especially if there need to be notches cut in the floor joists to take drainage or wiring.