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VILSTEIN 70 cm tileable shower channel, 68–80 mm build height review
A 70 cm stainless channel that publishes the one figure a floor channel is chosen by — a build height of 68 to 80 mm — with the complete kit in the box.
The bottom line The channel to buy when the floor depth is the constraint. Its drainage rate is the joint-lowest here, which for an ordinary shower is still ample.
What you are getting
A 70 cm stainless steel shower channel with a tileable cover and a stainless cover, adjustable mounting feet giving a 68 to 80 mm build height, a removable trap with an odour stop and a hair strainer, a lifting hook, a sealing membrane and an adapter.
The number that decides everything
68 to 80 mm build height.
A shower channel is not chosen by its length first — it is chosen by whether it fits inside your floor. Channel, trap and pipe fall all have to sit between the finished tile and the slab. Adjustable feet across a 12 mm range are what make an imperfect floor workable.
30 l/min, in context
The joint-lowest figure in this hub, shared with the 60 cm channel — the others state 36, 40 and 50. For a single shower head at 9 to 12 l/min it is still three times what arrives. It matters if you are fitting a large rain head and a hand shower running together.
What is not published
Water seal depth. A trap works by holding a column of water; how deep that column is decides how long it survives a dry fortnight before smells come back. No channel in this hub publishes it.
Availability
On sale at around 41 € on the German Amazon store at the time of checking.
Listed but with no offer on the American, British, French and Italian Amazon stores — the reference exists there and nobody is currently selling it.
Not found on the Spanish Amazon store, where the buy link falls back to a local search rather than to a page that does not exist.
Prices and availability are what Keepa reported on the date this page was updated; both move.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 5 September 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.
What we like, and what we don't
Strengths
Publishes a build height range of 68 to 80 mm, which is the measurement that decides whether a channel fits your screed at all
A complete kit: channel, floor fixing, stainless cover, trap with hair strainer, lifting hook, sealing membrane and an adapter
Fourteen lengths from 30 to 160 cm, so the same design covers almost any enclosure
Compromises
The joint-lowest published drainage rate in this hub at 30 l/min, alongside channels stating 36, 40 and 50
No water seal depth, which is what actually stops drain smells rising
No outlet diameter as a figure, only a statement that connections are DIN-conforming
Specifications
Overall length
70 cm — stated; the maker offers 14 sizes from 30 to 160 cm
Open length
Not stated by the maker
Build height
68 to 80 mm, on adjustable mounting feet — stated
Stated drainage rate
30 litres per minute — stated by the maker; no test standard is named
Water seal depth
Not stated by the maker — a removable trap with an odour stop is fitted
Outlet diameter
Not stated as a figure — the connections are stated as DIN-conforming
Grate type
Tileable cover, with a stainless steel cover also supplied — stated
Amazon reference
B017UG4EBW (same reference on 5 Amazon marketplaces)
EAN
4260344428038
Questions people actually ask
Why is build height the critical figure?
Because a floor channel has to sit inside your floor. The channel body, the trap under it and the fall of the outlet pipe all have to fit between the finished tile and the structural slab. If your build-up is 70 mm and the channel needs 90, no other specification rescues it.
What does the sealing membrane in the box do?
It is the waterproofing layer bonded around the channel before tiling. Water gets under tiles — that is normal — and the membrane is what stops it reaching the floor below. A channel supplied with one is a channel that can be installed properly.