Ha ha, that looked a lot like my bathroom…similar shower and similar tub with the little wall between and water leaking from the corner of the shower. Your bathroom turned out really great! What shower is that? I really like the low-profile pan. And while I’m at it, can you tell me what shower set that is?
The shower was really fantastic but very expensive. I doubt I’ll ever do one like that again. Ruby and I went to the Home show at Cal Expo in Sacramento (where we used to live). The vendor was selling custom Corian enclosures but the impressive part was seams were invisible. The material was about 1/2″ thick. The salesman took a sharpie and marked it, waited a while as he talked and then scrubbed it off with soft scrub.
Ruby and I went down to the showroom and started discussing our project, which changed several times through the process, and ended up with what you see. We originally wanted a custom tub made of the same material but opted for a much cheaper acrylic- free standing tub.
In the corners, where the material meets, they put a triangular piece of trim and then used a special router to make it look like a one piece enclosure.
I used Red Guard membrane for waterproofing. They sprayed foam under the pan to fill in the spaces. It was rock solid!
They had to glue the pieces together to make it 8′ tall but the seams were invisible.
The enclosure was $8,289.00 installed. The 1/4″ glass was from a different company and was $2,350.00 installed including hardware. The shower mixer is a Hansgrohe Metris C thermostatic valve with volume control and diverter. All the valves, shower head, vertical bar, etc was $850.00. The top knob on the shower valve controls volume and which shower is on (or you can run both if you want), The bottom knob is temperature. I had to install a vacuum break at the low point, which is where the hand held hose starts. Without the vacuum break, the shower sprayer will drip because when you shut off the water, the hose and shower head is full of water and has nowhere to go. The vacuum break senses the drop in pressure and opens to drain the hose.
This tub is a $840.00 Woodbridge freestanding tub.
I used a tub receptacle that I could just set the tub on and the drain tailpiece slid into the plumbing which made it easy to install the tub. I made a little door under the tub so I could check the plumbing if need be but I never did.
We found the floor tile at the discount section of the local tile store. I installed it myself over cement backer board. I installed new faucets in the original vanity that came with house. I took the doors and drawer faces off and spray painted them white because they were 1990’s oak color. I also put soft close slides on all the drawers in the house. The total bathroom cost with all misc costs, fittings, and hardware was $21,932.58.
It was my dream bathroom but we ended up selling this house less than a year after completing this bath. Also remodeled the kitchen and two other bathrooms. We sold it all and bought a house on a lake in Alabama. Now we are remodeling the new house and that’s why I’m looking at glass block and collecting ideas.