Make Your Bathroom Better With Steam Showers & Dual Flush Toilets
If you are planning a bathroom remodel or new bathroom in your home, there are two newer fixtures that will turn your boring bathroom into a spa-style escape. Steam showers and dual flush toilets are the perfect additions to your new bathroom, providing efficiency and function to the modern home.
The benefits of steam baths have been known for hundreds of years and include soothing sore muscles and joints, boosting the immune system, detoxifying the body through sweating, clarifying skin, decongesting sinuses, reducing stress and more. Now, with the creation of steam shower enclosures, it has never been easier to experience these benefits. In addition to luxurious steam baths, these also have fully functional hand held showers, rainfall ceiling showers, bathtubs, radios, speakerphones, chromatherapy lights and more comfort accessories.
The modern steam shower units are fully enclosed, meaning you do not have to tear up your whole bathroom installing steam generators and steam proof doors. Many of these steam showers also include fully loaded whirlpool bathtubs which saves money and space. For couples and master baths, there are many steam shower models available with spacious interiors, dual showers, dual seats and double whirlpool tubs. In addition to creating comfort and luxury in your home, steam showers also can make your home value increase and allow your home to stand out from the rest.
The next item that should be included in every bathroom remodel is a dual flush toilet. The incredible efficiency of these toilets make them a no brainer for every bathroom in your house. The traditional toilet uses up to 5 gallons of water per flush. A high efficiency or dual flush toilet uses 0.8 or 1.6 gallons per flush. This will save the average household thousands of gallons of water per year, positively impacting the environment and lowering the household water bill. These toilets have taken off in Australia and Europe and becoming widely available and affordable in the United States now as well.
The dual flush toilet is called so because it offers two flushing capacities. The smaller 0.8 gallon flush is for liquid waste and the 1.6 gallon flush would be used for solid waste. Dual flush toilets are able to reduce water consumption significantly for a couple reasons. One of the primary differences is that the drain trap size of dual flush toilet is three to four inches wide, whereas in a standard toilet the trap is only a little over an inch. This means much less water is required to flush waste and also greatly reduces the occurrence of clogs.
The siphoning method employed by traditional toilets is highly inefficient, so dual flush toilets employ a wash down method instead. Additionally, dual flush toilets are available in many modern shapes and designs and in both one and two piece models, making them perfect for the modern bathroom.
