Large walk-in shower with floor-to-ceiling stone-look tile, pebble floor, and frameless glass in West Chester, PA

Bathroom Remodeling

Walk-in and curbless showers in Lancaster and Chester County, PA

A walk-in shower is the center of most bathrooms we build: tiled floor to ceiling, a glass door or a fixed panel, a bench, a niche where the shampoo goes, a rain head and a hand shower, and a floor that drains. A curbless shower, with a linear drain and the floor sloped under the tile, works for everyone from a toddler to a grandparent, and it is the one we build most often.

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What Is Under the Tile

A shower lasts or fails on what you cannot see. Ours are built on a sloped pan with a bonded waterproofing membrane over the floor and up the walls, the corners and the curb or the drain flashed, and the whole thing flood-tested before a tile goes on. The valve is set at the right height for the trim, the niche is framed and waterproofed with the walls, and the bench is built as part of the pan, not set on it.

Choices That Shape the Shower

Curb or curbless: a curbless shower needs the floor framing dropped or the floor built up so the slope can be cut in, so we check the joists first.
Drain: a center drain under a mosaic floor, or a linear drain at the wall so large tile can run through.
Glass: a frameless door, a fixed panel with an open entry, or a half wall with glass above it.
Tile: large-format porcelain for fewer grout lines, subway in a pattern, pebbles or hexagons on the floor for grip.
Fixtures: a rain head, a hand shower on a slide bar, a thermostatic valve, in chrome, black, brushed nickel, or brass.
The extras: a bench, one or two niches, a second shower head, a steam unit where the room is built for it.

Shower-Only Remodels

Not every bathroom needs the whole room done. A shower-only remodel takes the old shower or tub out, rebuilds the pan and the walls, tiles it, and closes it with glass, and leaves the vanity, the floor, and the toilet alone. It is a shorter job that gives you most of the result, and we do a lot of them.

Showers We Have Built

The West Chester primary bath below is one large walk-in shower with floor-to-ceiling stone-look tile, a pebble floor, two niches, and frameless sliding glass. The West Chester slate shower is dark slate-look tile with a glass mosaic band, a hexagon floor, and brushed brass fixtures. The Downingtown baths include a gray subway shower with a pebble floor and an arabesque tile shower.

Projects

Showers We Have Built

Large walk-in shower with floor-to-ceiling stone-look tile, pebble floor, and frameless glass, West Chester PA

Primary bathroom with walk-in showerWest Chester, PA

Dark slate-look tile shower with a glass mosaic band and brushed brass fixtures, West Chester PA

Slate tile shower with brass fixturesWest Chester, PA

Bathroom in Downingtown PA with a freestanding tub, dark accent wall, black vanity with marble top, and marble-look floor

Two bathroomsDowningtown, PA

Questions

Questions We Get

Can any bathroom have a curbless shower?

Most can. The floor under the shower has to be lowered or the rest of the floor raised so the slope to the drain can be built in. Over a basement or crawl space we drop the framing. On a slab we build the floor up. We check before we promise it.

What keeps a tile shower from leaking?

The pan and the membrane under the tile, the slope, and the flashing at corners, niches, and the drain. Tile and grout are not waterproof. The system under them is. We build that system and flood-test it before tiling.

Frameless glass or a shower curtain?

Glass, whenever the budget allows. It opens the room, it is easy to keep clean, and a frameless door or panel makes the whole bath look finished.

Process

How We Work

We visit, measure, and talk through the scope before anything is priced.
You get a written proposal, and we build to it.
Where the work needs a permit, we walk you through it every step: the application, the drawings the township asks for, and the inspections.
We are on site from the first day to the last, and the house stays clean while we work.
We walk the finished job with you, fix anything on the list, and clean up.

Bathroom Remodeling

More Kinds of Bathrooms

Primary Bathroom RemodelsThe big one: a walk-in shower, a freestanding tub, a double vanity, heated floors, built to be used every day.Hall and Guest Bathroom RemodelsThe family bath done right: a tub or a shower, a vanity that holds things, tile that lasts, and good light.Tub-To-Shower ConversionsThe tub nobody uses comes out and a tiled walk-in shower with a glass door goes in its place.Accessible and Aging-In-Place BathroomsA curbless shower, a wide door, grab bars that look like they belong, built so the house works for the long run.Powder RoomsA half bath on the first floor, new or rebuilt, in a closet or a corner, finished like a jewel box.All bathroom remodelingThe service page, with the full scope and every project.

Service area

Where We Work

Based in Christiana, we work across Lancaster County and Chester County.

Lancaster County

Christiana
Gap
Quarryville
Strasburg
Lancaster

Chester County

Parkesburg
Coatesville
West Chester
Kennett Square
Downingtown
Malvern
Chester Springs
Frazer

Dalton remodeled our primary bathroom and did a wonderful job. All work was performed neatly and professionally.
— Julie EvansPrimary bathroom remodel
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