Spice Up Your Bath With Bath Screens
If you want to spice up your bathroom in an exciting way, there cannot be a better way other than installing a bath screen and thus transforming the everyday bath into an open-spaced and a high-tech experience. However you can attest to your inconvenience if you own a shower curtain because there is nothing more awkward. Here bath screens come to your rescue. A bath screen is as efficient as a shower curtain when it comes to preventing water leakage, but bath screens have an extra edge over shower curtains. They can fit into your bathroom looking great with added benefits.
A fixed bath screen can be mounted to wall requiring no folding away. These traditional bath shower screens are safely manufactured in about 5 mm toughened glasses with vertical hinge so as to allow smooth opening and closing. In time of installing bath screens in your bathroom you are required to pay close attention so that you can measure everything before fitting. If bath screens are installed in a hurry, they end up leaking water in the bathroom.
Bath screens are available in a variety of shapes and sizes and you can always pick the one that suits your bathroom perfectly. If you were unable to install a shower in your bathroom because of lack of space to accommodate both a bath and a shower enclosure, a bath screen can fulfill your wish. Frameless double bath screens are perfect for people requiring a shower and a bath in a compact bathroom.
Fixed bath screens are the ideal ones when it comes to regular showering or when shower is the only cleansing option. An alternative to the fixed bath screens are the freestanding bath screens. They can be compressed inwards against the wall instead of placing them back across the bath. Toughened safety glass is used to produce all the shower enclosures, bath screens and shower doors.
Hydroponics gardening guide – growing mediums used in hydroponics – HOW TO USE ROCKWOOL
The most widely-spread growing medium is, perhaps, rockwool. Originally used for insulation purposes and also known as mineral insulation, rockwool was first used as growing medium by Dane gardeners. Now, it is frequently used for drip-style indoor gardens around the globe.
Rockwool is produced by a process similar to making cotton candy: a particular mixture of sand and rock is melted and then turned into fibers by spinning the mixture to form products of multiple shapes and dimensions, from 1″ starter cubes and up to large slabs of 3″x12″x36″ in size. The variety of available forms and sizes turns rockwool into one of the most widely-used growing mediums.
Key advantages, as well as disadvantages, of this popular growing medium are listed below.
Rockwool’s Strong Points
HOLDING WATeR – rockwool as a growing medium in hydroponics systems is capable of holding a large amount of water. This creates an additional protection for situations, when water is not supplied because of power outages or failures in pumping or other gardening equipment.
ACCUMULATING AIR – up to 18 % of air are constantly kept by rockwool. Due to this capability, there is a very little risk to over water rockwool; besides, the plants are always supplied with enough amount of oxygen.
MULTIPLE SHAPES AND SIZES AVAILABLE – whether it is a small 1″ cube for seeds propagation or a large 3×12x36 inches slab for huge plant, rockwool offers a wide variety of shapes and sizes to choose from. Besides, loose rockwool is also available, designed for filling different plant containers.
NO DUST AND EASY TO USE – since rockwool maintains its form almost perfectly, it cannot be scattered accidentally. Besides, usually packed into plastic rockwool is a very clean material that is easy and comfortable to work with.
Rockwool’s Weak Points
NOT A “GREEN” MATERIAL – rockwool is claimed to be not environment-friendly material, because of its almost indefinite time of breakdown.
HEALTH HAZARDS – rockwool particles and fibers pose serious health danger, especially for human lungs. That is why it is necessary to wear a protective dust mask, while working with rockwoll.
pH PROBLEMS – because of rockwool’s high pH level, it is necessary to balance pH level in the nutrient solution properly and make it suitable for the plants, you are growing. In general, the use of rockwool requires more routine work to keep pH level of your nutrient solution at steady level.
LONG PRE-SOAK PERIOD – before rockwool can be used in the hydroponic system, it should be soaked for at least 24 hours beforehand. Other growing media usually do not require pre-soaking, it is enough just to well-water them.
