Thursday, August 26, 2010

Shower remodel

I don't remember exactly when, but a couple years ago the shower floor in the master bathroom cracked rendering it useless. We've wanted to replace it but the cost was always just too much so we all used the 'boys' bathroom shower. When we decided to list our house we had to fix the shower. When the old shower was taken out we realized the drain was at least 2 inches too high which is what caused the floor to crack, basically the drain was causing a tent like angle in the floor and for a rigid floor that is not good. Also the old shower was about 34"X34", small and the ceiling over the shower was dropped so it was small and cave like. We had the plumbing moved to the wall it was originally on so we could put in a longer shower, we ran into the problem that the drain is in an odd spot; with a cement slab sub floor it would have been too expensive to move the drain, we finally found an offset drain and didn't have to special order a shower floor. We also took out the wall between the shower and toilet, which made it feel like you were peeing in a closet.
I found 13"X13" tiles on clearance (regular price was over $28 per box for 10 tiles, I got 2 boxes for $20 total). Jerry cut down the tile to 6"X13" and used a running bond pattern, I found some tumbled travertine Noche 3"X6" tile ($47 for 7 sqft) for the trim, it turned out awesome.














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