What is better: a bath or a shower cabin?

During the repair in the bathroom, especially if the room is not spacious, almost every owner of an apartment thinks about whether to leave the bath or replace it with a convenient cabin to quickly take a shower and be able to squeeze into the room more washing machine, water heater or some other object, which now is not enough space. We decided to compare these two popular plumbing fixtures to help you choose.

Each type of plumbing fixtures has its own advantages, as well as there are certain disadvantages. Let's compare them according to the most important parameters:

As for the cost, you should compare devices with similar characteristics. In terms of quality to price ratio, a good shower cabin and a quality bathtub will be approximately on the same level. Manufacturers are trying to reduce prices (since the competition is high), as well as to offer various additional functions.

If it is very difficult to make a choice, you can resort to an alternative that allows you to take the best of each sanitary device. This is especially convenient if some family members like to lie in the bathtub, while others do not want to waste time on water procedures, so they prefer a shower. Also, the combined device will suit families with a small child, because it allows you to bathe the baby. In addition, modern hydroboxes have a lot of additional options that allow you to get the maximum benefit from any water procedure.

In choosing the main element of the bathroom, which is a bathtub or shower stall, it is important to base on your needs. For example, young people who wash very quickly and almost never take a bath, it will be more convenient to replace it with a shower cabin. If you have a bath at least once a week it is completely filled, you like aromatic treatments, relaxing in warm water, undoubtedly, you just need a bath.

Also, the purchase of the bath should be considered by the family, planning to have a baby, because after the baby will have more advantages than a shower enclosure. If you are going to replace the bathtub with a cabin to win some space in a tiny bathroom, think carefully about whether it will be necessary to return the bath back. In this case, you will have to make new repairs. Get rid of the bath only in situations where you are 100% sure that you will no longer need it.

People who are faced with the need to choose a shower tub or bathtub for the bathroom, recommend paying attention to such nuances:

• If no one in your family spends a lot of time in the bathtub, a shower is the best option, because it saves twice as much space.
• If you install a shower faucet in the bathroom and hang a shower curtain, you can safely enjoy both showering and bathing. In the case of the shower stall installation, bathing will be impossible, unless you choose a variant with a high tray.
• Buying a cabin, look for cheap models, which have few additional features. According to the experience of many users, such options are used very rarely, and the cost increases quite significantly.
• The bath is more preferable in case of washing bulky things, such as bedspreads or blankets.
• If your family is elderly, he often will be contraindicated hot bath, so you can replace the bathtub dushkabinkoy.
• But families with children or pets prefer a bath. However, a deep tray in the shower stall can correct the situation.
• The installation of the bathtub is simpler, if you compare it to a modern multifunctional shower stall.
• In the bathtub it is convenient to relax muscles, but while washing in the shower most of the muscles remain in a tense state.
• The hygiene of the shower is more, since all the dirt from the body is immediately washed down the drain.
• Buying a shower stall, you can not enjoy aromatherapy or take a therapeutic bath. At the same time the advantage of the cabin is the ability to use a contrast shower.
• In the first month after replacing the bathtub with a shower stall, users note that water consumption has decreased significantly.
• The risk of flooding the neighbors noted more by owners of the bathtub, as the shower stall is tightly closed.
• At the same time, owners of cabins often complain about more complicated maintenance. The device has to be washed after each shower to prevent the formation of plaque.