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May have to help/lead a shower insert, have never done!
Send all instructions, tips, pitfalls!
Thinking to start, must cover or replace drywall with cementboard?
 
A shower insert doesn't even need drywall behind it, let alone cement board. Follow the instructions and be careful with your seams.
 
seams; careful.
Lining them up exactly or ensuring a good seal?
Thanks
 
The ones I've seen usually have a good overlap. Just use a copious amount of silicone or whatever they recommend as the sealant. Shower inserts and tub surrounds are about the easiest thing you'll do in bathroom remodel.
 
The second one I put in I glued some small wood blanks on the back before installing as reinforcement for grab bars. It let me put grab bars where I wanted them. I wish I would have done that with the first one.
Easy to do when you are building the bathroom but a lot harder afterwards if you don't have access.
 
I've tore them out, never out one in, doesn't looks hard to install, probably why most low income homes have them.

If this is for a owned home that's not just a rental, why not spend a little extra time and money and make a nice tile shower?
 
James331 said:
I've tore them out, never out one in, doesn't looks hard to install, probably why most low income homes have them.

If this is for a owned home that's not just a rental, why not spend a little extra time and money and make a nice tile shower?
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I own my home and find the one bathroom with a "real" tile shower to be a PITA. Feel free to spend life sealing every so often, regrouting, scrubbing, whatever. I don't even use the thing. It's off the master so Karen likes it, so guess who also gets to clean it? ;)

I just want a waterproof wall that I can stand inside of and get clean, and clean it with a few sprays of cleaner and a friggin squeegee.

I don't want bumps in the wall, I want it flat. Don't need pretty fake rock or any of that crap. It's a head, not a freaking art museum.

I want to shove the dogs in it when they come in covered in mud and after they shake water everywhere, a towel will clean it up.

If you're spending enough time in a bathroom to look at tile, you need another hobby at least. Ha.
 
Yep, I have two showers in the house currently. My master bath is a beautiful tile job with floor to ceiling glass doors. That's in the master. In the bathroom off the hanger is a shower insert, durable, and easy to clean.
 
The one my brother installed is cheap and doesn't appear to be wearing well. My moms $300k in a senior community built by one of those big name builders also appears super cheap. I don't think it will wear well. Overall I am not impressed with the overall build quality by those bozos.
 
You get what you pay for. Sterling makes some nice (they're a division of Kohler). Reasonable price and holds up well.
 
denverpilot said:
I own my home and find the one bathroom with a "real" tile shower to be a PITA. Feel free to spend life sealing every so often, regrouting, scrubbing, whatever. I don't even use the thing. It's off the master so Karen likes it, so guess who also gets to clean it? ;)

I just want a waterproof wall that I can stand inside of and get clean, and clean it with a few sprays of cleaner and a friggin squeegee.

I don't want bumps in the wall, I want it flat. Don't need pretty fake rock or any of that crap. It's a head, not a freaking art museum.

I want to shove the dogs in it when they come in covered in mud and after they shake water everywhere, a towel will clean it up.

If you're spending enough time in a bathroom to look at tile, you need another hobby at least. Ha.
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Never had much work needed with my tile showers, cleaning is a little more work, but unlike a lot of the cheap inserts they don't get that nasty dis coloring. Having a water softener helps with the grout too.

I don't spend that much time in the bathrrom, but I like my home to look nice, no laminate, no vinyl, no shower inserts, no hollow core doors, spend the extra few bucks for the nice door knobs, etc. It's the little stuff like that that make a home feel high end or cheap.
 
James331 said:
Never had much work needed with my tile showers, cleaning is a little more work, but unlike a lot of the cheap inserts they don't get that nasty dis coloring. Having a water softener helps with the grout too.

I don't spend that much time in the bathrrom, but I like my home to look nice, no laminate, no vinyl, no shower inserts, no hollow core doors, spend the extra few bucks for the nice door knobs, etc. It's the little stuff like that that make a home feel high end or cheap.
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It's a taste and opinion thing I realize, so I won't knock your taste. I was just saying that as an owner, I honestly don't care about that stuff.

Mostly because as I get older I want to do things that I'll find were worth spending time on, and messing with tiles or remodeling the inside of my "keep humans dry box" known as a "house" isn't high on that list of life accomplishments. Ha.

I don't see functional stuff as "cheap". I just see it as less money spent on that so the opportunity cost can be utilized to do something way more interesting than looking at bathroom tile. :)

It probably also comes from not having much if any of that keeping-up-with-the-Jones' gene.

If given the choice of owning something outright that looks a little "dated" vs being a wage slave to a bank for something "modern", I'll take owning it outright every single time.

I could sell all the interesting toys and spend it all making the nest look perfect and sit in the nest all day. Easily. It'd just be boring to me.

I don't have the means to own perfect stuff and not work 80 hours a week. I am also not jealous of anyone who does. I just know my limitations. I'd rather spend the kitchen remodel money on flying. Someone else can remodel the kitchen after I'm dead, if that makes them happy. ;)
 
I totally agree.

The house I got was already pretty done up when I got it, since I live in a more AG area it isn't crazy expensive to live out here, most all of the fancy stuff I get for the house I pick up at auction when when I see one come up.

But yeah, between having granite counters and tile showers and being a debt slave or working your entire life away, you're right.
 
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