If you have a house that does not have a shower stall in one of the bathroom, but has only a bathtub, then you can easily convert that bathtub into a full standing shower stall. Now the reason for doing this can vary from simply because you don’t like bathtubs and only prefer showers or there is someone in the household that cannot access a bathtub due to some disability and having a shower instead would be much more of a convenience for this person. In either case, a tub to shower conversion can require several days of work if you choose to do it yourself. It takes approximately 1 day to complete if you choose to hire a professional contractor to do it for you.
The very first task in your tub to shower conversion project is to remove your existing bathtub. Depending on how it was originally installed, removing the tub may be a simple process of removing all the gout and silicon from the base and all sides of the tub and then lifting it out of its original place. Sometimes, the tub may be screwed into the cornered walls where it is placed. In either situation, you have to be aware that the tub is connected to a series of piping that supplies that bath water and drains it. You have to locate these pipes after you remove the tub from its original place. Make sure that you completely disconnect the tub from these pipes before completely removing it from its location.
After the tub has been removed, the next thing that has to go would be the shower surrounds. Make sure that all the wall titles and grout are removed and try to clean as much off of it as you can. Obviously, this task will take some time to do and so you shouldn’t be discouraged if it is taking you some time to complete the task. Removing and cleaning the area is by far the longest part of the entire tub to shower conversion.
After the tub has been removed, you’ll notice that underneath it lies a cement foundation. In some cases, this foundation will not be cement and in fact is just bare wooded floors. Make sure that you clean this area as best you can to make room for the shower that will go in its place. After you have chosen your shower stall to install, you can simply install it by hooking up all the pluming and sealing the base. The easiest way to do this is to grab yourself a shower kit which will contain everything that you need to install a brand new shower. If the shower stall that you installed is smaller than the space that the original bathtub took up, then some of the flooring underneath it will show. You can simply lay down some tiles to cover it up.
You see, doing a tub to shower conversion, isn’t something that is overly difficult. If anything, it is just a very time consuming part of the overall bathroom shower designs, but if you got the time then that shouldn’t be a problem at all.