Buying Guides

Shower stools, shower chairs, wall-mounted seats, mobile shower chairs, bath boards and bath seats compared, with seat heights, weight ratings and tips on getting the height right.

How to choose a commode: static bedside commodes, mobile commodes on braked castors and Romachair shower commode chairs, plus weight capacities, concealed-cistern fit and how to measure up.

Stone resin is the tray material that does not flex, creak or crack, and the Coram range is 30% lighter than most. This guide explains flat top versus upstand trays, square, rectangular, quadrant and offset quadrant shapes, the 90mm waste, and when a riser kit is the right answer rather than a level-access wet room.

A shower seat has to hold weight, stay out of the way when it is not needed and be fixed to a wall that can take it. This guide compares the Impey Slimfold, Deluxe, legged, wide padded and freestanding seats, explains weight ratings, seat heights and wall fixing, and covers the drop-down support rails that go alongside them.

A wetroom screen is a fixed glass panel with no door, and the choice comes down to how it is held up and whether it needs to move for a carer. This guide covers the Impey Supreme, Soho and Freeglide and the Coram Premier 8 and Column screens: bracing bars versus ceiling poles, framed versus frameless, full height versus half height, and how to size one.

Coram makes three shower enclosure ranges and they are aimed at different jobs. This guide compares Optima 6, Premier 8 and GB5 on height, glass, finishes, adjustment and price, explains how side panels and in-line panels work, and helps you pick the right door for your alcove or corner.

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.