Should You
Install A Shower Stall?
Most
homes in America have a bathtub that doubles as
a shower. Not that many homes have a separate
shower stall and a separate bathtub. You may be
remodeling your bathroom and feel that it would
be a nice option to have a separate shower
stall rather than a combined shower/bath.
Your first consideration when thinking of
installing a separate shower stall in addition
to your bathtub is whether you have enough
room. If you are doing a major bathroom remodel
then you can plan it down on paper, all the
measurements of the various items like the
shower, bath, toilet and cabinets so that you
can fit these items in your bathroom.
If you're not doing a major bathroom remodel,
you'll have to evaluate any spare space you
have in the bathroom, measure it up, and do
some research to find a shower stall with those
dimensions that will fit easily into
bathroom.
Once you have your measurements for your new
shower stall it's time to go shopping. You can
find complete shower stalls at most home
improvement stores. These usually come with a
molded shower floor and walls and the shower
door. These all in one shower stalls are quite
easy to install as everything you need is built
into it.
However you may want to make use of the tiles
you've already got laid on your bathroom floor
and use those as the shower floor. You'd
obviously have to put in a drain and build up
the sides of the area to create the base of the
shower, and then buy some sliding doors to
finish it off.
This entails a lot more work than just buying
the all in one shower stall, so it comes down
to weighing up the amount of money you have to
spend versus the amount of time you have to
build a shower from the ground up yourself, or
have it done for the professionally.
|