Brianslink
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I have a new construction home with crawlspace. We are ready to do the master shower...it's a double shower that is custom sized at 52" X 76" rectangular. This is the shower only, tub is in a separate space. Initially we were going to have a custom tile job done for this shower with a custom pan built and then have a local glass company come in and do glass doors. After talking to my friends and other people, it appears that leaking shower pans are the norm around here. The builders around here tell me that tile guys here are not too good at building leak-proof horizontal surfaces.
I think I would like to have a shower base built from a solid material that will never leak, then have someone do tile on the vertical shower walls. I had a bid for an ONYX brand shower base in the dimensions listed above and the qoute was for $1700.00 carry out. Installed price was $2,000. This is for just the base only and I feel the price is absurd. I went to Lowes and looked at their shower bases and the stuff looks like it belongs in a mobile home. While in Lowes I saw a friend of mine who recently built 20 rental cabins on the river. He told me he used all shower bases from lowes and so far 9 of them have been broken in a year. People are stepping through them and cracking the bottoms. This is not what I want in my home.
Does anyone know of a manufacturer who makes a decent, solid surface type base in a custom size that might be more reasonable in price?
I think I would like to have a shower base built from a solid material that will never leak, then have someone do tile on the vertical shower walls. I had a bid for an ONYX brand shower base in the dimensions listed above and the qoute was for $1700.00 carry out. Installed price was $2,000. This is for just the base only and I feel the price is absurd. I went to Lowes and looked at their shower bases and the stuff looks like it belongs in a mobile home. While in Lowes I saw a friend of mine who recently built 20 rental cabins on the river. He told me he used all shower bases from lowes and so far 9 of them have been broken in a year. People are stepping through them and cracking the bottoms. This is not what I want in my home.
Does anyone know of a manufacturer who makes a decent, solid surface type base in a custom size that might be more reasonable in price?