"Snag" wrote in message
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At the prices they want for prefab shower stalls ?? Prefab bases start at
around 600 bucks , surrounds 300 bucks and up . Looks like I'm going to be
building a tile shower ... materials should run around $275-$325 and labor
will be ...me . Sure glad I said yes when a former employer asked if I
wanted to work with the tile guy !
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Snag


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You've already had a bunch of advice, here is my take--I had a tile shower
and it became a constant pain to keep the grout clean, repeated repairs with
the grout especially along the inside corners and along the pan level. Then
along came the time (7-8 yrs ago) when the shower was torn out during a
bathroom rebuild--I ended up with a Sterling glass corner shower (a base,
two walls and the door). I don't remember the cost but it's worth every
penny--just about non-existent maintenance (nothing to repair), easy to keep
clean, cosmetically looks great. Think again, amortize the cost over the
next few years and today's cost will not seem too high a price--especially
five years from now when you're working away cleaning, scraping and
replacing grout . And after all that work you still can't it to look like
new any more (and the wife is the first one to let you know).
MLD