Tub to Shower Conversion in Meridian, Idaho

Residential Tub to Shower Conversion Services in Meridian

Most houses here are production stock from the last 25 years. The bath is a 60-inch alcove with a fiberglass combo, a builder valve, and a surround that is already chalking at the corners.

Tub to shower conversion

The head job is tub out, pan in, walls, and valve. We do not glue a liner over a leaking apron and call it done. Drain location, slope, and the wet wall set the clock. See tub to shower conversion for the sequence.

Walk-in shower

A walk-in is a low curb or a true curbless floor. Access is the point. The drain and the waterproofing have to carry water to the trap without a tub dam. Details live on walk-in shower .

Shower remodel

Keep the footprint. Replace the surround and the pan. This is not a whole-bath gut. Failed grout, a soft pan, or a kit that flexed are the usual triggers. See shower remodel .

Alcove shower

The 60-inch production bay. Ten Mile, Locust Grove, and Kuna plats repeat this size. Three walls, a curb, and a door or curtain. Alcove shower is that bay, not a neo-angle corner.

Shower pan

Mud pan or a preformed base. Quarter-inch per foot to the drain is the whole job. Weep holes and a clamping drain matter on a mortar bed. Shower pan is the floor, not the walls.

Acrylic shower

Multi-piece surrounds on a sound backer. Faster than tile. Still needs a right drain and a rigid wall. A kit on rotten gypsum is a callback. See acrylic shower .

Tile shower

Custom tile on a converted alcove is a conversion package, not a kitchen floor or a backsplash. Membrane first, then tile. Tile shower is the wet-area set.

Accessible shower

Low curb, blocking for grab bars, and a valve you can reach from a seat. Not a medical claim and not a Medicare pitch. See accessible shower .

Tub replacement

Keep a tub, swap the unit. Different job from converting to a shower. Same-size alcove swaps are the common path. Tub replacement is for houses that still want a soak.

Shower doors

Framed bypass, pivot, or frameless. Measure after the walls are in. Glass ordered off the old tub flange will miss. See shower doors .

Shower walls

Cement board and membrane, acrylic panels, or solid surface. The waterproofing behind the finish is the spec. Shower walls stop at the stall, not the rest of the house.

Fiberglass shower

One-piece or multi-piece units. Hall width is the limit on a one-piece. Production houses often cannot turn a full unit at the bath door. See fiberglass shower .

Corner shower

Neo-angle and square corners. Different pan, different glass, not a 60-inch alcove. Hall baths and kids' rooms use this footprint. Corner shower .

Shower valve

Pressure-balance or thermostatic mixing valve in a conversion. Height and scald protection are code items under the International Plumbing Code. See shower valve .

Bathroom conversion

The whole wet wall, the floor at the old tub, and the door swing. More than a surround kit. Bathroom conversion is the layout job.

Why Meridian Property Owners Call Meridian Quality Shower Conversions

Meridian counted 117,635 people in 2020. It is Idaho's second-largest city and the fastest-growing in the state. The town was platted in 1893 on homestead land and named for the Boise Meridian. Irrigation from the Nampa-Meridian and Settlers districts turned dry bench into farms. Most houses went up after 1990 on that former ground.

The baths fail in a short list. Builder combo tubs in 60-inch alcoves. Surrounds that chalk at the corners after a decade of hard water. Pans that hold water because the slope died. Valves that surge when a toilet flushes. Old Town stock along Pine, Main, and Meridian Road still mixes plaster with gypsum. North of McMillan the plats are master-planned. South of I-84 the new-construction belt is still moving.

We set pans to drain. We waterproof to ANSI A118.10 membranes or a sheet system in the same family. Mixing valves follow ASSE 1016 practice. Idaho adopted the International Plumbing Code; Uniform Plumbing Code language shows up in product listings. Those are industry documents, not a credential of this brand.

Treasure Valley summers pass 100 F. Thin caulk at an acrylic joint cooks and splits. Winters are cold with light snow, so a slab-on-grade pan that was set on a January pour needs the room warm enough for thinset and silicone. Elevation here is about 2,599 feet. Humidity stays low. That is why we talk about expansion gaps, not a national one-day clock.

Call (208) 274-7129 with the job and the town. We quote before demolition starts. We convert baths across Ada County.

Our Tub to Shower Conversion Process

Measure the alcove and the drain

We need the city, the alcove width, and a photo of the tub apron. Center drain or offset drain changes the pan. A window on the wet wall changes the surround. We do not quote a franchise kit price from another market as if it were your bath.

Pull the tub and open the wet wall

The apron comes out. We check the subfloor, the trap, and the backer. Soft gypsum behind a kit gets cut to the studs. The tub spout is capped when the job is a shower only. Mixing valve height is set for a standing shower, not a sit-down soak, unless you asked for a seat.

Set the pan and waterproof

Preformed acrylic pans or a mortar bed with a liner. Slope runs 1/4 inch per foot toward the drain. Sheet membrane or a liquid-applied layer on the walls. A flood test on the pan before the finish goes on. We do not skip that test to match a one-day ad.

Walls, valve, and glass

Acrylic panels, tile on a membrane, or a multi-piece fiberglass unit. Pressure-balance or thermostatic trim. Doors measured after the walls are true. Silicone at every change of plane. You use the shower after the cure window on the quote, not the morning after a liner drop.

Areas We Serve

We work from Meridian across Ada County and into Canyon County. Dedicated pages: Boise , Nampa , Eagle , Kuna , Star , Caldwell , Garden City , Middleton , Emmett , Hidden Springs , south Meridian , and Melba . Call (208) 274-7129 if your town is next door and the job is a real conversion.

Paramount, Bridgetower, Tuscany, Century Farm, and Lochsa Falls are the plats we name because that is where the 60-inch alcoves actually sit. Corridors along Chinden Boulevard, Eagle Road, Fairview, Ten Mile, Locust Grove, Linder, McMillan, and Lake Hazel carry the houses. Landmarks such as The Village at Meridian, Settlers Park, Julius M. Kleiner Memorial Park, and the Meridian Idaho Temple mark the map, not a shop address.

If you searched tub to shower conversion in Meridian, Idaho, the number on this page is the one to use. We quote the bath in front of you. West Ada schools, the Idaho State Police campus, and Renaissance Park in Tuscany sit on the same map as the houses we convert. They are landmarks, not a shop.