About this site

Bathroom Safety in Pictures is a free guide to making a bathroom safer in UK homes. Most pages start with a short answer, then show photographs of real bathrooms and fittings and say what to look for in each one. The pictures come first because a grab rail or a shower threshold is easier to judge by eye than by description.

Where the facts come from

Rules, temperatures and grant figures come from official and charity sources: GOV.UK, nidirect, the Scottish and Welsh governments, HMRC, the Health and Safety Executive, the NHS, the Approved Documents to the Building Regulations, Electrical Safety First, NICEIC, Age UK, RNIB, RoSPA, the Child Accident Prevention Trust and the Alzheimer's Society. Each page lists its sources at the foot, and each page shows the date it was last updated. If a source has changed since then, the source is right and this site is out of date.

What this site doesn't do

It isn't a plumber, electrician or bathroom fitter. It doesn't install, repair, sell or quote for anything, and it can't look at your home. It gives no medical advice and doesn't diagnose or assess anyone. If someone has been falling, has become frail or has just come out of hospital, the GP and a council occupational therapist are the right first step, and this page explains how to reach them. Nothing here promises that anyone will qualify for a grant or for VAT relief.

Who owns it

This site has the same owners as three American businesses: PlumbingSupplyAndMore, SoftPro Water Systems and Quality Water Treatment, which sell plumbing supplies and water treatment, and it is connected with Central Plumbing & HVAC, a service company in Pennsylvania. A few pages link to them as US reference examples, and each of those links says so beside it. They're in the United States and shipping to the UK isn't promised. Nothing on this site is ranked.

The pictures

Most pictures are real photographs, largely from Wikimedia Commons under open licences, including some from outside the UK and some from hospitals, hotels or public buildings; captions say so where it matters. Where no suitable photograph shows a fitting clearly, an AI picture is used instead, including at the top of some pages, and it is labelled as AI. Maker logos are cropped or blurred. The picture credits list each photographer, licence and change.