If you are in the process of getting ready to remodel the bathrooms in your home, you are likely looking for design ideas in bathroom remodeling magazines and websites. One of the hot new trends in bath design are wet room showers. These sophisticated models rely on linear drains for showers in order to keep the water inside the shower stall. Urbane wet room showers that use trench drains, also called linear drains for showers, not only function well but cost less to install than traditional shower drains. Here are a few key features that go into the drains used for a no threshold shower.

The trench drain shower gives a very open feel to your bathroom's new interior design. This is because no edgings are needed to keep the water inside the no threshold shower. This is possible because a trench drain shower is put into place, along with full-to-the-floor glass doors surrounding the linear drain shower. The clean, unbroken lines give a spacious and luxurious look to your bathroom.

Trench drains for showers come in long rectangular shapes. The length you need will depend on the length of your door opening for a wet room-style shower. A trench or channel is created that goes down into the subfloor area underneath the shower stall. Into this is placed a waste water outlet, which is usually centered or placed slightly to the side of center of the drain. A waterproof flexible flange surrounds the drain, and this helps to keep any drops of water out of the subfloor area. Spacers come next, and they are used in a linear drain shower to bring the top of the drain strainer up to the finished floor level. The drain strainer is a highly decorative element made of stainless steel, and comes in several stylish patterns, including dots, horizontal lines, vertical lines, diagonal lines, waves that remind you of ocean waves, and even a hidden drain option that looks like the tile you use in the floor of the shower.

A big benefit comes from installing a trench drain shower over a shower with a traditional round drain, and that is a reduced installation cost. Round drains require a round slope with multiple planes to be constructed around the drain, so that gravity moves the water into the drain. This takes a great deal of construction crew time, and thus higher labor costs. A trench drain shower only needs a single slope created so that water runs into the rectangular drain, saving on labor costs for construction. You can also use larger pieces of tile or stone with a linear drain system, giving more interior design options than you would have with a round drain.

Trench drains for showers are available from linear drain manufacturers online.