RE: Stun me with your bathrooms!

["Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good stuff Mark,

Have you ever come across commercially available high tech showers?

Paul.



-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Harrison (Groups) [mailto:mph@xxxxxxx]=20
Sent: 21 January 2005 14:38
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Stun me with your bathrooms!


Paul Gale wrote:

>Stun me with your HA enabled bathrooms.
>
>I=92m looking at re-fitting an en-suite bathroom this year and was
thinkin=
g about what HA gadgets and controls I could put in =96 like a
digitally/co=
mputer controlled shower with LCD or TV display etc. I don=92t want to go
t=
oo overboard but as I=92d be re-fitting, it=92d be a shame to waste the
opp=
ortunity.
>
>Anyone already done this? I=92d be interested in your installation and
wha=
t gadgetry you have.
>
>Go on, inspire me :-)
>
>Paul.
>
My en-suite is probably boring.

- in-ceiling speaker driven as a secondary feed from the "master=20
bedroom" zone, but with independant volume control. After much
thinking,=20
I ended up putting the volume control just _outside_ the bathroom,=20
rather than in it.

- occupancy-detector controlled lighting and shower extraction fan

My wishlist for the next house includes underfloor heating as well, but=20
probably that's all. When I'm in the bath, I want to relax, so scented=20
candles and music are more important than the latest Arnie movie. When=20
I'm in the shower, I want to get clean and then get out, so having an=20
audio feed from the music / news is fine.

I sometimes wish I had a small in-wall screen immediately in front of=20
the loo, so if I need to "go number 2" halfway through something
I can=20
carry on watching :-) Maybe one of those 7" linitx screens with=20
composite video input would be just the job (if you'll pardon the pun.)=20
Mounted behind some perspex and with no controls in teh room - just set=20
up as a feed from the master bedroom screen.

We've looked at proper water-proof LCDs for a client, but he's balking=20
over the cost at the moment. We'd roughed up some designs for a=20
loft-void-mounted projector behind a perspex ceiling panel to project=20
movies onto the wall, but getting a projector with sufficient keystone=20
adjustment has killed cost there also.We can't use a projector in the=20
next room projecting _through_ because this is for a bath not a shower,=20
and therefore the client would be in the way. (He's a strict Moslem and=20
accordingly only showers, since his religion requires him to wash only=20
in running water so baths are out.)

Mark



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