ᐅ Facing brick wall in shower—possibly with tempered safety glass?

Hello,

a friend of mine is currently expanding his house. Where the future bathroom will be located, the old brick wall is still very well preserved, and he would like to keep it as a shower wall.

We have considered covering it with toughened safety glass (ESG) or acrylic glass. Does anyone have experience regarding waterproofing, etc.?

Best regards

Pierre

Should the cover fit tightly? I wouldn’t recommend that.
Leave a "healthy" gap at the top and bottom to allow air circulation.
This would already protect the wall from most of the water.
A little water vapor probably won’t cause much damage anyway.

Make sure the glass or acrylic is attached so it can be removed for cleaning behind it.
I’m not sure how modern acrylic behaves or if aquariums even use the same material, but it scratches quite easily. You would probably need to be careful when cleaning which sponge (and maybe which cleaning agent) you use.

Where are the pipes routed? They will probably be visible, right?

I would clean/disinfect the wall or the brickwork before use. Otherwise, you might end up with moss growing in the shower.

If it doesn’t fit tightly, can it be left out? The question is whether the brick veneer can otherwise be impregnated well enough to withstand it. The pipes will come from behind, so they will not be visible on the wall. In the room behind, a boxed enclosure will be built for this purpose.

I meant that a glass panel should extend from the shower floor (with a 1 or 2 cm (0.4 or 0.8 inch) gap in height) up to the top edge of the shower. This way, most of the water would be on the glass rather than on the brickwork.

I’m not sure if this is ideal.

In any case, it would be much easier to keep clean than brickwork. I don’t want to have to scrub that. The cleaning agent might also be "hazardous."