ᐅ Finding the Right Shower Panel for a Natural Stone Wall

Hello,

My girlfriend and I are currently planning our new build. Construction starts this week, and we still have a few questions.

We want to cover the inside of our shower with natural stone. (Picture attached)
1. Does anyone have experience with how easy or difficult it is to maintain?
2. What is the best way to install a shower panel or shower fittings on such a wall? If the panel is 20cm (8 inches) wide, do you need to leave that width free without natural stone on the wall, or are there other solutions?

Best regards and thank you very much for your help in advance.

Here is another example image of the natural stones (without a link, hopefully this is okay now)

Are you sure you want something like this? How do you plan to keep it clean? With tiles or smooth walls, you can just wipe them down with a squeegee to avoid constant cleaning, but with this kind of wall, the lime deposits basically get embedded... 😕

Hello,
we live in an area with pure groundwater. We don’t use a water softener or anything similar and so far haven’t even needed to descale the shower head or, for example, the kettle because we don’t have this issue in our area. I should have mentioned that earlier. So, in terms of limescale, we don’t have any problems here.

Huetten schrieb:
Hello,
we live in an area with pure groundwater. We don’t use any water softeners or similar, and so far we haven’t even had to descale the shower head or, for example, the electric kettle because this isn’t an issue here. I should have mentioned that earlier. So, regarding limescale, we have no problems here.

Have you never scrubbed the shower?
We also have pure water, but soap residue, dirt, and maybe even mold can accumulate in the gaps.
Many try to use tiles as large as possible to avoid grout lines, and you want to have nice ledges in addition to the many grout lines. I don’t think that’s a good idea.

Talk it over again with your girlfriend.

Hello,

At the moment, we have a shower/sauna combination. Mostly made of plastic with smooth surfaces but also some "grooves" (joints).
Here, it’s enough to spray the entire shower once a week with a strong cleaner and rinse it off.

I was also thinking about applying some kind of sealant for the natural stone.
Does anyone have experience with this or know about it from acquaintances?