Shower remodel from a few years ago.

[1shott]

When I built this house, in 1998, in the master bath I installed a basic 36x36 acrylic one piece shower stall.

In 2018 I decided to start a remodel, brought on by my house being broke into.

One of the projects was to tear out the shower insert and tile in a new shower.

When I framed the walls I framed this opening as a 36 wide by 48 deep. So when I decided to tile in the shower I brought the curb out a foot.

For tile I shopped around and ended up buying enough of a clearance tile for not only the shower, but the entry way, dining, kitchen and utility room, I figured hey why not. The tile ran me about $3 a case, 15 sq feet in a case, .20 cents a sq foot tile, I am in.

The curb is a 6in curb, pan set by hand. Used sand topping mix for the curb and pan.

All told in materials for the shower about $100 if that, labor was free.

 

[1shott]

Heres the floors with the same tile as the shower, they are lighter on the floors in color than on the walls.

 

[montesa]

Looks tight from here. You have a construction background? Took me five years to do similar work consistently.

 

[montesa]

Hardi can still wick water. Have to be careful with it when meeting up with the pan.

 

[1shott]

Looks tight from here. You have a construction background? Took me five years to do similar work consistently.

No I have a mechanical background.

I can tackle most things, esp after I make the first cut into something to demo, LOL. Laid my first tile floor in 2005, turned out OK, I see the little things with it no one else does tho.

Not something I want to do every day tho.

Sometimes I will hire out a project, other times I will do it myself. For this one I did have some great advice, esp about pulling the dishwasher and tiling the floor under it, makes changing the dishwasher out a lot easier then tiling in front of it.

 

[XYZ]

You can come do mine for $200. Heck of a deal for you doubling your money.

 

[swampratt]

That all looks great. I had trouble stacking 4" tile in my bathroom very high.
I had to do it in 3 steps.

Looks like you got it all done in 1 run with the larger tile.
I like it.

 

[1shott]

You can come do mine for $200. Heck of a deal for you doubling your money.

sorry hard pass. Lol

I still have my 2nd bath to remodel.
Torn on if I should do a complete to the studs tear out and take out the wall to the 2nd bedrooms closet gaining about 16 sq ft and tiling in a walk in shower

or complete tear out and replace the one piece tub shower with a steel tub and tile surround and tile floors

or

leave the one piece tub shower and just install new flooring, toilet and a pedestal sink

 

[1shott]

That all looks great. I had trouble stacking 4" tile in my bathroom very high.
I had to do it in 3 steps.

Looks like you got it all done in 1 run with the larger tile.
I like it.

the wall tile took a couple days.
Let the bottom half set up. Then finished.

tiling took 3 days total. Grout one day sealing the next
A week for the shower
Tear out was about an hour with a recip saw lol.

 

[magna19]

Looks great. You saved a bunch of money doing it yourself. We had 3 different estimates to do both bathrooms complete except the wood cabinets at 9k-12k each so we did both last year ourselves. Hard work for sure. We also use the cement board with red guard. It turned out great