What is a wet room?
A wetroom is a bathroom where the shower has no tray and no enclosure — the floor itself is formed to fall to a drain and the entire room is waterproofed (tanked), so the showering area is simply part of the room. Level access, one continuous floor, usually a single glass panel rather than a cubicle.
Structurally, three things make a wetroom: formed falls (the floor is rebuilt to slope subtly toward a drain), full-room tanking (a waterproof membrane across the whole floor and up the walls, behind the tiles), and level access (no step, no tray edge, no threshold). Remove any one and you have something else — usually a level-access shower, which is a legitimate product but a different one.
The appeal is partly aesthetic — one uninterrupted tiled plane reads clean and makes small rooms feel bigger — and partly practical: nothing to step over now, nothing to become impossible to step over later. It is the only bathroom format that serves a 30-year-old's design taste and their 80-year-old future self with the same floor.
The reputation problem comes from partial installations sold under the wetroom name. A tanked corner with tiles running level to the rest of the room will leak at the boundary, reliably. The full envelope — floor, upstands, walls in the wet zone, flood-tested before tiling — is what the word is supposed to mean, and it is what we build.
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