If you would like a luxurious beautiful low maintenance shower floor like t.
Ipe wood shower floor.
For one thing it s as hard or harder than nails it s been known to bend nails ipe is so dense that it often needs to be pre drilled before pieces are connected.
The cost to manufacture a teak shower floor or bath mat is surprisingly economical.
Brazilian walnut ipe.
Ipe is a real wood and is the highest quality of wood available.
They built a custom ipe wood shower floor platform that sits inside of the shower basin which really gives it a designer look.
The shower floor is simply a standard shower basin to match the jetted tub.
Apart from being slippery wood and constant water don t exactly go hand in hand.
I have a hard brush to scrub off any residual soap scum on the ipe there usually isn t any.
Of course a few challenges do arise with wood shower floors.
When looking at your ipe floor no 2 boards are the same.
The grain is absolutely gorgeous and the reason fake woods try to look like natural wood is simply that nature makes the most gorgeous flooring.
Step by step video illustrating the teak floor shower conversion i did in 2016.
I rinse the ipe off soap scum after every shower this takes about 5 10 seconds.
Ipe is a hardwood from brazilian rainforests that has received lots of attention in the past couple of decades.
Woods we currently offer flooring in.
Since each shower floor is different in it s own way we price your floor by the square foot and use feq burmese teak wood to manufacture each one.
That s why it s best to go with tropical woods like teak ipe or massaranduba which are naturally water resistant though naturally pricier too.
I used ipe decking in my master bath shower raised off the tile floor with rubber feet.
Some compare its strength to that of steel.
Ipe is a great choice for this application since the wood has proven to last outside in extremely harsh climates for 75 years.