shower design

hello, I am in the process of construction design and need to advise if i need shower niches. Not sure if they can be done against external wall? Also what's better niche or ledge? not sure about the cost.
for niche looking at min 1200mm length as shower is roughly 1800 mm long and that's external wall. thanks.

 

Well, somewhere to put the shampoo bottle is handy and you can catch your shoulder on those ledges.

get the height right tho. Mine will fit a pump shower gel but not a hand to pump it!

 

Why not a vertical niche, with the bottom at the correct height for anyone wanting to shave their legs?

 

Are they a Mamil?

 

I just assumed that @Tompropdev was a bloke.

 

Great size
After having an over size shower for years I doubt I could go back to a 900x900 or 1x1 corner shower..........

 

Definitely put a niche in. I am spewing at Hubby who refused to do it in our showers.

 

We put in a tiled shower ledge that runs the entire wall of the double shower
it is fantastic.
Can arrange as many bottles as you want, where you want. Height of bottles not a problem.
Handy place to put your glasses. It never looks crowded and it’s visually interesting
Niches can look really crowded when in use.

We are soon to built again and am definitely having a tiled shower ledge/ half wall

 

Why not put a dishwasher in your shower then your glasses can be cleaned while you shower

 

I put in ledges instead of niches in last 2 shower reno's because it was easier and takes up less room - just screw 2*35x70 treated pine pieces together and attach to wall, full width, wall-to-wall. I also put in ledges down low so they can be used to support feet

 

yes bloke

 

thanks very much everyone for lots of suggestions. also thank you @Momentum for ideas and sharing photos. mrs has seen some nice fancy photos of long rectangle niche on internet (Gallery - Demtech https://thenicheman.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/long-shower-niche.jpg and on instagram Login • Instagram), so she is pushing for niche. while I think it niche not done properly then might not turn out good. i am liking ledge. guess this is just getting started

 

Does putting a niche into the outside wall mean you can’t add insulation there (i.e. due to building into the wall space where the insulation would usually be)?

That alone would put me off a niche.

 

If the external wall is brick verneer there will be a cavity between the wall studs and brickwork that "could" have insulation stuffed in there.....
But for such a small area (that has tiles over wall substrate) it shouldn't make much of a difference thermally or acoustically.

 

Actually I read somewhere that the way heat loss works with insulation isn’t in proportion to the gap at all. So if there is a 5% gap, the heat lost through the gap is significantly more than 5%.

The Your Home guide has the details I think. (It’s been a while since I read this bit of info.) | YourHome