In old apartments, bathrooms are small. If there is no possibility to install a comfortable shower office, take a compromise solution - a shower panel. It is an open design without a pallet, but with a complete functional set. Its installation is possible in any convenient place, so even if there is a spacious bathroom, many prefer the shower panels. On the features of the shower panels, about the intricacies of their installation told in this article.

All pluses of shower panels

Shower panels have a number of indisputable advantages:

• compact;
• multifunctional;
• easy to operate;
• diverse in style;
• cheaper several times compared to shower cabins.

And besides:

• mounted simply;
• allow playing wellness procedures at home.

Design panel for shower cabins

The design of the shower panel consists of the following elements:

• housing;
• leeks of shower or two;
• mixer;
• hydromassage nozzles;
• switch;
• implish, if the model is designed for installation over the bathroom.

In the panels for shower cabins 2 types of management are found:

1. Electronic. They are equipped, as a rule, expensive instances. Such control allows:

• cycling backlight;
• select the temperature of the water with great accuracy - to 1 degree with;
• install the nook mode.

2. Mechanical. Models with such a type of management have a more democratic price.

Criterias of choice

When choosing a shower panel, you should consider all the nuances:

• where it will be installed;
• whether its dimensions are suitable;
• whether it fits into the design of the bathroom;
• what functions have functionality.

Healthy: Some shower panels from European manufacturers are equipped with devices that save water - aquadimmer or ECO. The first, with a high flow rate, reduces the volume of water pouring out of the shower, and in the second there is a mechanism that allows you to reduce the number of channels in the shower head, thus reducing the flow of water half.

Need to know: If you are planning a shower panel to buy such that there is an electric thermostat, and electronic control, and backlight, then you will have to be connected to the power grid. Think, do you have next door to the bathroom for placing a transformer, whether you can equip the shower system.

Varieties of shower panels

All existing shower panels are different:

• design;
• mounting method;
• the number of nozzles;
• view and number of massage nozzles.

According to these characteristics, they are classified as:

• wall-mounted
• corner;
• ceiling.

And there is also such a classification of shower panels:

1. First class - "Comfort". Plastic or acrylic housing. Be sure to:

• manual shower, but in some models there is also the top;
• injectors -4 or 1, with which water beats a fan and creates a point of point massage.

2. Second class - "Medium". The base is aluminum or acrylic. The panel is equipped:

• side nozzles - 4 or 6 pcs.;
• central nozzles massaging spin - 3 pcs.

3. Third class - "Premium". Characteristics and equipment are the same as at the Medium class. The hydromassage can work in different modes: whether all the nozzles are immediately, or in the center and on the sides alternately.

Shower panels with a mixer belonging to different classes produces a well-known manufacturer of elite plumbing from Germany Hansgrohe (Hansgro). Regardless of class affiliation, HansGrohe:

• equipped with an innovative showerpipe shower system;
• have a beautiful design;
• equipped with top and hand shower;
• have a thermostat;
• models with electronic and manual control are manufactured.

Shower panel corner

Little space in the bathroom takes a shower panel corner.

Shower panel, which photo you see released famous Italian manufacturer - the company ALBATROS. Albatros HR 214 model features:

• elegant design;
• high quality material;
• long life.

It is equipped with:

• six vertical jets;
• hand shower;
• overhead shower;
• thermostat;
• hanging shelf.

Shower panel with hydromassage

These panels are high-tech system, allowing to take health treatments.

To install a shower enclosure with hydromassage is not in every bathroom there is a place, and it costs very expensive. But for a shower panel with massage jets a large area is required. This panel is equipped with:

• shower - upper and manual;
• hydromassage jets;
• mixer - Thermostatic or usual;
• device for switching modes - mechanical or touch;
• seat, lighting, shelf - in the expensive models.

That's at least an Italian shower panel Jacuzzi REI. With very modest size - 1.43 meters high and only 17 cm in width, has a full set of features:

• shower upper creating rain effect;
• 4 for hydromassage nozzles;
• shower heads;
• mechanical or thermostatic mixer.

Healthy: Supplied with hydromassage shower panel, designed for installation over the bathtub, it includes a comfortable seat, so that it is possible to completely relax during water treatment.

Shower panel with rain shower

This system is a shower panel with overhead shower, having:

• broadside soul, allowing to create the impression of flowing tropical downpour;
• led-lighting, alternately coloring the water jets in different colors. There is not everywhere, but only in the elite expensive models.

"Dancing rain" - this is sometimes called the shower. A classic example of a shower panel with rain shower - model P546, manufactured by the Italian company Teuko. It has the following characteristics:

1. Made of aluminum.
2. Equipped with a single-lever mixer.
3. Protivoizvestkovoy function has both manual and on the upper soul.
4. Equipped with a tray, whirlpool jets.
5. It has the following dimensions:

• height - 1.94 m;
• width - 0.205 m.

Install the shower panel

You can not be invited to install the shower panel of the specialists and then you will lose a guarantee, and this is undesirable. The process of installation of the panel depends:

• from the intended place of placement of the structure;
• from the materials from which it is made.

Shower panel post:

• above the bathroom;
• in the purchased shower, equipped with pallet and drain;
• in a primitive homemade shower, where water flows along the inclined floor;
• in the form of a multifunctional box, which includes a steam generator.

Note: When installing the panel is not on the bathroom, you will have to install the equipment, which includes a shower panel with a mixer, shower nozzle, pallet, fencing.

Installing the shower panel in the cabin

The shower system in the cockpit is placed in the following ways:

• on the wall;
• in the corner.

If a shower panel is installed with a hydromassage, then most likely need to change the plumbing system. When installing, consider the following:

1. The distance is the maximum from the sewer tube to the floor 7 cm. If you do not fit into this rate, you will have to arrange the podium under the pallet.
2. Docking sites are processed. Acrylic is used for outer sealing, and silicone - to seal the connections of the parts of the shower panel inside the cab.

Installation is performed in such a sequence:

• the drain is supplied by connecting the drain hose to the sewage;
• mounted pallet and other cabin elements;
• careful sealing of all connections during the installation process is carried out.

This process is very clearly depicted on the example of the mounting of the Hansgrohe Pharo Lift 2 shower panel:

Installation of the shower panel in the cabin with a floor having a slope

The process looks like this:

• a hole is performed in the floor to improve drain;
• stacked on the floor tile with a small bias towards the ladder;
• installed racks for installation of fencing;
• water supply to the shower panel with the mixer is carried out.

Check out another video instruction for installing the shower panel: