Homeowners, interior designers and contractors all have ideas about how your bathroom remodeling project should end up. Homeowners want a beautiful new look to this well-used room in the home,yet at an affordable price. Interior designers want to give you a bathroom that meets with your approval for what you deem to be the ideal style for this room, while contractors take all of your ideas and convert them from paper plans to reality. In the end, however, everyone is happy when trench drain systems are used in your remodel. They are also helpful if you wish to make a tub to shower conversion, and a shower trough drain works well for those who need handicap showers.

A linear drain may be called by several names, which can give a bit of confusion at the start of a project such as a bath remodel. You might see it listed as a shower trough drain, a trench shower drain, or as a channel, line or strip drain, but they all work in basically the same way. The linear drain is long and rectangular in shape. Beneath the linear drain is a trench or trough, and the floor of the shower is sloped toward the drain, so that the water runs down and into the linear drain.

Your contractor will like this shower trough drain because of its ease in installation. Traditionally, a round-shaped floor drain was used in any room that needed a drainage system, usually found in the bathroom, around a washing machine as well as a water heater. The round floor drains are harder to install and more time consuming, because of the creation of a round slope around the drain. All of that work is completely eliminated when you make the switch to a trench shower drain, which only needs a single slope. Because the installation time is dramatically reduced from that normally used to install a round floor drain, homeowners will enjoy a major savings in installation costs when they use trench drain systems, a decided benefit to any remodeling project.

Your interior designer will also be pleased with this type of drain if you want to include a tub to shower conversion in your remodeling plans, or handicap showers. Larger pieces of stone, marble or tile can be used with the linear-type drain to give more design possibilities, which is not the case with round floor drains. Also, the channel drain is appropriate for use in accessible showers because where the drain meets the flooring in the shower is flush, making it much easier for wheelchair access.

To see these drains, you can visit a drain store online to get more ideas about how they can be used in your remodel project.