VWK
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Hello everybody! I'm about ready to tackle my master bathroom but it's a 70's nightmare. I have a roman tub/shower that I would like to transform into a walk in shower. I was quoted $5,000 to rise up the floor, take care of the plumbing and tile. I want to move out, in about a year and rent this property, so I'm not ready to invest that much money into it. I'm ready to invest my time and effort though by doing it myself. My husband and I are DIYers but we've never done a shower before. Is that too ambitious of a project?
I've attached a picture of the shower and a rendering I made, of what I want it to look like.
I want to remove the bench and replace it with shelves by the toilet for extra storage. I would like to rise up the floor and plumbing (we will call a plumber for the drain and shower fixtures) and tile the back wall and floor with marble looking tiles and the 2 other walls with white tiles. The rendering is not accurate regarding the location of the shower fixtures (we will leave them where they currently are) and regarding the side walls of the shower because I use a nonprofessional software and I can't modify everything as I'd like to, but you get the general idea.
Any ideas, tips, info you can give me are more than welcome, especially for the rising of the shower floor (not a lot of info online) or the building of the shelves. Where do I start? What do you fill the hole with (sand and concrete or just concrete)? Do I need to build a box around the plumbing? Any protective barrier? Thank you in advance.
I've attached a picture of the shower and a rendering I made, of what I want it to look like.
I want to remove the bench and replace it with shelves by the toilet for extra storage. I would like to rise up the floor and plumbing (we will call a plumber for the drain and shower fixtures) and tile the back wall and floor with marble looking tiles and the 2 other walls with white tiles. The rendering is not accurate regarding the location of the shower fixtures (we will leave them where they currently are) and regarding the side walls of the shower because I use a nonprofessional software and I can't modify everything as I'd like to, but you get the general idea.
Any ideas, tips, info you can give me are more than welcome, especially for the rising of the shower floor (not a lot of info online) or the building of the shelves. Where do I start? What do you fill the hole with (sand and concrete or just concrete)? Do I need to build a box around the plumbing? Any protective barrier? Thank you in advance.