Buying Guides

Every AKW shower explained — iTherm, SmartCare Lever, SmartCare Plus, pumped wireless packages, and the Arka, Vettora and Onyx Combo mixers. Outputs, kit colours, accreditations and how to choose.

A level-access wet room needs four things working together: a former, a waste, tanking and a threshold. This guide explains what each one does, how to choose it, and the five mistakes that cause wet rooms to leak.

Low surface temperature radiators hold a fixed 43C surface, so they heat a room and dry towels without ever getting hot enough to burn. Here is how they work, why 43C is the figure, how to size one, and where they make sense.

The complete AKW Contour ShowerDec buyer's guide: why it's AKW's strongest wet floor former at 100 stone (635kg), all twelve sizes and codes, which gravity or pumped waste to pair with it, tiling and vinyl advice, and how it compares to Tuff Form8 and TriForm.

The complete AKW Tuff Form8 buyer's guide: all nine sizes and product codes, how the rotating plate delivers up to 25 waste positions, which vinyl, tiled or pumped waste to choose, installation tips and how it compares to Tuff Form, TriForm and ShowerDec.