My wife and I have a great master bathroom....except for one glaring area. The walk-in shower. It's a glass door walk-in (which is great) but the subway tile installation for the 3 walls (goes all the way up to the 9 foot ceiling) was horribly caulked and needs to be torn out and completely re-tiled with new (we'd like larger) tiles. Lastly, the cheap, plastic builder's grade "pan" floor is undesireable to put it mildly. We want a more premium tiled floor surface vs. a plastic "pan". Would a job like this be a "repair and replace" job or would it be the top-tier "custom remodel" job?
This could definitely be a remove & replace project as long as you aren't drastically changing the overall size and location of your shower. If you love the rest of your bathroom and really only want to touch the shower, you're looking at a "wet space only" type of project, meaning you'll only be working on the space that gets wet. These fit very well with remove & replace type remodelers!
There is most likely both in the shower. Either the grout or the caulk (or both!) could be an issue here. Grout is what fills the space between the tiles in the shower, which I believe is what you are referring to. It's porous meaning that water is able to seep through it. Grout can be quite a project to fix without redoing all the tile in the shower. Caulk is used to seal around glass doors in showers, among other things. It is silicone based and waterproof. And fortunately, it can sometimes be quick to redo to waterproof a shower door!
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My wife and I have a great master bathroom....except for one glaring area. The walk-in shower. It's a glass door walk-in (which is great) but the subway tile installation for the 3 walls (goes all the way up to the 9 foot ceiling) was horribly caulked and needs to be torn out and completely re-tiled with new (we'd like larger) tiles. Lastly, the cheap, plastic builder's grade "pan" floor is undesireable to put it mildly. We want a more premium tiled floor surface vs. a plastic "pan". Would a job like this be a "repair and replace" job or would it be the top-tier "custom remodel" job?
Do you mean grouted instead of caulked?
This could definitely be a remove & replace project as long as you aren't drastically changing the overall size and location of your shower. If you love the rest of your bathroom and really only want to touch the shower, you're looking at a "wet space only" type of project, meaning you'll only be working on the space that gets wet. These fit very well with remove & replace type remodelers!
There is most likely both in the shower. Either the grout or the caulk (or both!) could be an issue here. Grout is what fills the space between the tiles in the shower, which I believe is what you are referring to. It's porous meaning that water is able to seep through it. Grout can be quite a project to fix without redoing all the tile in the shower.
Caulk is used to seal around glass doors in showers, among other things. It is silicone based and waterproof. And fortunately, it can sometimes be quick to redo to waterproof a shower door!
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