For those who desire a wheelchair accessible shower in the home, you may have been dismayed at the options available to you. If you are trying to design a roll in shower for a new home that you are building, you might have seen so many different designs that have a lip at the shower door in order to keep the water from flowing out the door and onto the bathroom floor. You can, however, have a stylish and functional ADA shower when you add a linear drain to your new bathroom design.

Traditional floor drains, placed in rooms throughout the home where water is used such as the bathroom, or near the water heater or washing machine, are the culprit for your ADA shower design frustrations. These floor drains are round in shape, and are often placed in the center of the shower stall. Because gravitational pull is needed to get the water to flow into the drain, the drain must be sloped in a circular shape with the drain situated a bit lower in order to accommodate the round drain.

A linear drain, which is rectangular in shape, eliminates the need for a round-shaped slope to the floor in the shower. All that is required is a single slope with the channel drain placed at the bottom. What this means is that you can place a linear drain right at the door of handicap showers, and the sloping floor will ensure that the water flows into the drain, providing you with barrier free showers.

For a new bathroom, not only do you want accessible showers, but also gorgeous ones. There are many luxurious design options when you utilize channel drain solutions in your home. For instance, you can use larger pieces of stone, marble or tile in your roll in shower floor, which is not typically an option with round floor drains. You will be able to splurge on other high-end bathroom fittings because with handicap showers that feature line drains you will pay much less for installation costs than if you were installing round floor drains.

The wheelchair accessible shower must have a flat and stable surface at the doorway into the shower. Linear drains provide handicap showers with such access, due in large part to being able to place the floor drain at the doorway. No edging or lip is needed to keep water inside the ADA shower, because not only is the shower floor sloped toward the drain, but the drain is constructed with an additional slope inside the trench, so that there will never be any standing water while at the same time providing you with barrier free showers in your home.

For the latest features in accessible showers, you can visit a floor drain website for suitable drain solutions.