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Most people asking about a shower conversion have already decided they want one. What they do not have is a straight answer on what it costs, how long they lose the bathroom for, and whether tile is worth the difference.
Should you convert, or keep the tub?
You have another tub in the house.
Keeping one tub is worth it for resale, so if there is a second one you are free to convert this bathroom. If you rarely use this tub, the conversion gets you a room you will actually use.
It is the only tub, and stepping over it has become the risk.
If somebody in the house cannot step over the side safely, whether from injury, age or mobility, the conversion is the right call regardless of resale. Safety in the room somebody uses every day beats a resale argument that only matters on the day you sell.
You use the tub and you want both.
If there is room, a walk-in shower and a freestanding tub is the answer, and that is a layout question we work out before anything is ordered.
You stopped taking baths years ago and want the room back.
Plenty of people convert for no reason more complicated than this. The tub sits there unused, it takes up the floor space a walk-in shower would use better, and there's no safety story or resale calculation behind the decision. If that's you, the conversion is just as valid a reason as any of the above, and a smaller bathroom often feels noticeably bigger once a bulky tub is gone.
Tile, acrylic or fiberglass
Fiberglass
is the budget end. Lightweight, cheaper, and it does the job. It is not as durable, the surface discolors and scratches over time, and it does not last as long. We do not usually recommend it unless budget is the deciding factor.
Acrylic
is the middle and it is the one to pick if you are going with a surround rather than tile. Very low maintenance, and it looks better and lasts considerably longer than fiberglass. On the day it is installed the two look similar. Five years later they do not.
Tile
is the premium option and it is what most homeowners actually want. Fully customizable, and it lasts the longest of the three when the waterproofing behind it is done properly. It is also the most expensive, and the difference is real work rather than markup.
What it costs
There is no honest single number for a shower conversion, because the job is decided by what is behind the tub, not the tub itself.
What goes on the walls is the biggest choice, and a surround costs less than a custom tile shower. After that it comes down to the size of the space, whether plumbing has to move, and what turns up behind the wall once it is open.
The discovery call ends with a real range for your bathroom, before anyone drives out.
How long it takes
An insert or surround is one to two weeks. Custom tile is two to three weeks, occasionally four if the space is large or the design is intricate. Four weeks would be an unusually involved shower.
Older homes take longer, every time, because more turns up once the wall is open.
What goes wrong when it is done badly
Most shower conversions do not need to touch the plumbing at all. The new base sits in the same footprint the tub drain already serves, so the supply and drain lines stay where they are. That is also why most conversions finish in one to two weeks instead of running into a full remodel timeline. Where it goes wrong is not the plumbing moving. It is what was already wrong with the wall and the floor before anyone got there, and it stays hidden until the tile or the surround comes off.
Sealant in the wrong places, or missing.
Watertightness is the whole job. A conversion that fails almost always fails here, and it fails out of sight, months later, as a soft spot in the ceiling below or a smell that will not go away.
A subfloor that was never leveled.
If the substrate is not level and properly prepared, the shower does not drain where it is supposed to, and standing water finds the seams over time instead of the drain.
Improper installation of the unit itself.
Adhesive used where the product should have been fastened to studs, or a direct-to-stud product installed as though it were not. These units rarely fail on their own. They fail because of how they went in.
A real conversion: from a rotted shower to an upstairs laundry
One conversion that stuck with us started as a shower nobody could use. A client's upstairs shower had rotted out from the inside, and by the time we opened the wall, the subfloor underneath it needed replacing along with everything else. Rather than putting another shower back in the same spot, we talked through what the family actually needed, and the answer was laundry upstairs.
We kept the toilet and vanity in that half bath and built a laundry space into the old shower's footprint: supply and drain lines run in for the washer, a vent cut through the sidewall for the dryer. The client had been carrying laundry down to the basement for years, and as she got older that trip up and down the stairs mattered more every year. Now it doesn't happen. She does laundry on the same floor she sleeps on, in a half bath that used to have a shower she wasn't using anyway.
Nobody searches for "convert my shower to a laundry room." It came up because we asked what the room needed to do, not what it needed to look like. That is the same question worth asking before any shower project: sometimes the answer is a better shower, and sometimes it is something else in the same footprint.
Accessibility, if that is the reason
A curbless entry means walking straight in off the floor with nothing to step over. That matters if you use a cane or a walker, and it is also the reason plenty of higher-end bathrooms have one, because it simply looks better.
Even where grab bars are not needed yet, we put solid blocking behind the walls during the build. When the time comes, they screw into real studs rather than into drywall, and we can come back and install them.
Planning that in now costs almost nothing. Retrofitting it later means opening the wall again.
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Why Homeowners Choose Us
The Remodeling Experience You've Been Looking For
We built our entire process around the things homeowners told us they were missing from other contractors. Communication, respect, and a crew that shows up when they say they will.
Clear Communication
We send updates, answer calls, and keep you informed, so you're never left wondering what's happening in your home.
Your Home Is Protected
We use floor protection and dust barriers and treat every surface as if it were our own.
Spotless Jobsites
We clean up every day before leaving. You'll never come home to a messy, disrespected space.
Custom to Your Home
No cookie-cutter remodels. Every decision is made specifically for your space, your style, and your goals.
A Premium Process
From first walkthrough to final handshake, the experience is structured, professional, and built around your peace of mind.
How It Works
How a shower conversion runs, start to finish
A structured, transparent process so you know exactly what happens, and when, from the first conversation to the final walkthrough.
Discovery call
Fifteen to thirty minutes on the phone. You describe the space and what is not working about it, we ask about the wall behind it if you know anything, and you get a real range before anyone drives out.
In-home visit and selections
We look at what is actually behind the existing tub or shower, check the subfloor, and walk through tile versus acrylic versus fiberglass, fixtures, and whether a bench or a niche makes sense for your layout. If aging-in-place blocking is part of the plan, this is where it gets decided.
Demo and waterproofing
The old unit comes out, the subfloor gets leveled if it needs it, and every tile shower gets a full Schluter waterproofing system before a single tile goes up. This step is the one that determines whether the shower lasts five years or twenty-five.
Install and finish
Walls, floor, fixtures, glass or curtain rod, grab bar blocking if it's part of the plan. A surround conversion is often finished within this same visit; custom tile takes longer because of cure time between waterproofing, tile and grout.
Final walkthrough
We walk it with you, run the water, check the drain, and go over anything you need to know before the next twenty years of showers.
Common Questions
Shower Remodeling FAQ
Homeowners often come to us with the same questions. Here are straightforward answers.
It depends on the size of the space, whether you choose a surround or custom tile, and what is behind the wall. A surround costs less than tile. Send a photo and the discovery call ends with a real range for your bathroom.
One to two weeks for a surround, two to three for custom tile. Occasionally four for a large or intricate tile design.
Keeping one tub in the house is worth it. If you have a second, this bathroom is free to convert. If it is the only one and stepping over it is a safety problem, safety wins.
A shower you walk straight into off the bathroom floor, with nothing to step over. It is the standard answer for mobility and it is increasingly chosen simply for how it looks.
Yes, if the blocking goes in now. We put solid backing behind the walls during the build so bars can be added into real studs whenever they are needed.
Usually not. The new shower base sits in the same footprint the tub's drain already serves, so the supply and drain lines typically stay exactly where they are. That is also why most conversions finish in one to two weeks. If something does need to move, we will tell you plainly at the in-home visit, before anything is ordered.
Sometimes, yes. We once converted a rotted-out shower into an upstairs laundry space for a client who was tired of carrying laundry down to the basement, while keeping the toilet and vanity in that half bath. The footprint of an old shower already has drain access, which makes it a natural spot for a laundry hookup if a shower is not what the room needs anymore.
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If mobility or aging-in-place is part of why you are looking at this project, our accessibility and aging-in-place upgrades page covers grab bars, curbless entries and blocking in more depth. Everything else we build in a bathroom is on the bathroom remodeling page.
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