Anyone ever rip out a insert style shower stall?

[lokiju]

I have a home that was built in 2005 and I want to rip out my shower stall that is basically 3 sides of plastic/fiberglass and a glass wall/door on the out facing side.

It just feels cheap and I can feel my heel sink in certain spots in the base of it. I want to rip it all out and put a solid stall with tiled walls and floor and maybe something like glass block for the out facing walls with a door in the center or something like that.

I've never done anything like this but I'm wondering what is it going to be like under the stall? It seems elevated higher than the main bathroom floor, which I assume is just because it's designed that way as a kind of basin.

My ultimate goal is to rip out my shower stall (leave the garden tub) rip up all the linoleum, rip out the toilet and the vanity/cabinets.

For some reason we have a really long vanity and only at the right end of it does it have a sink, seems like a bad choice on whoever built this place.

Then I want to put down tile for the flooring, put in a solid built in tiled shower stall (no clue how to do this) put in a new elongated blow and new vanity and cabinets with dual sinks and some sort of hard surface, be it granite or something of that nature.


Current bathroom layout.



I was thinking about getting something like this from Costco as a easy vanity replacement that'd give me dual sinks also.

Are there any do-it-yourself-er's on here that can provide tips, insight, recommendations on parts that are better left to pros versus doing it yourself?

:beer:

 

[Strk]

You'll just see studs and plywood..

 

[Legendary]

That's where Jimmy Hoffa is, be careful.

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: Strk
You'll just see studs and plywood..

and hopefully not a ton of moisture damage... and wood that is specced for water use. i want to do the same thing, especially since the idiot that put it in (the old owners son-in-law) put the drain upside down. it was done more than 25 years ago, im almost afraid to see whats under it. i know it wont be wood tho, we have concrete foundation here, one story house.

 

[Pheran]

I recommend checking out the John Bridge forums, there's a lot of good info there and helpful people.

 

[FP]

I did that last year.

Way more work than I had anticipated however we did a tile surround.

 

[Strk]

Originally posted by: hanoverphist

Originally posted by: Strk
You'll just see studs and plywood..

and hopefully not a ton of moisture damage... and wood that is specced for water use. i want to do the same thing, especially since the idiot that put it in (the old owners son-in-law) put the drain upside down. it was done more than 25 years ago, im almost afraid to see whats under it. i know it wont be wood tho, we have concrete foundation here, one story house.

It will likely just be regular plywood and studs. You should find the same. If you're going to put down tile, I'd use cement board.