Construction
Shower removal across the Golden Isles.
One-piece stalls, tiled walls, glass enclosures, base pans. Cut, demoed, and hauled once the plumbing is capped.
Part of our Construction Debris Removal service
Shower removal is the demolition front end of a bathroom remodel. The new shower is on its way — a fresh tile build, a low-profile pan, a frameless glass enclosure — and the old one has to come out first. That old one is almost always heavier, dustier, or more awkward than it looks from the doorway.
There are really four versions of this job, and they tear out differently. One-piece fiberglass and acrylic stalls were set in place before the walls were finished, which means they are too big to walk back out the bathroom door — they get cut into sections in place and carried out a piece at a time. Tiled shower walls and pans are the dusty version: tile, mortar bed, and wire lath come down to the backer board, and the mortar pan over the drain gets broken out by hand. Glass doors and frameless enclosures come off the wall and out the door in panels. Base pans, whether acrylic or a mortared tile pan, are the last thing standing once the walls are gone.
What ties all of it together is that the water has to be off and capped before we lay a finger on it. Once it is safe, the tear-out is straightforward demo and haul work — we get the stall out cleanly, sweep the bay down to the studs and backer board, and leave it ready for the contractor building the new shower.
What we haul
Specifically, what we take for shower removal.
- One-piece fiberglass and acrylic shower stalls (cut into sections in place)
- Tiled shower walls torn down to the backer board
- Shower surrounds and wall panel kits
- Acrylic and tiled shower base pans
- Glass shower doors, frames, and frameless enclosures
- Mortar bed, wire lath, and tile debris
How we work
How we actually handle it.
One-piece stalls are the job people underestimate. A fiberglass or acrylic surround was almost always installed before the doorway and walls were finished around it, so it will not come back out the door whole — it physically does not fit. We cut it into manageable sections in place with a saw, free it from the wall fasteners and any setting bed behind it, and carry the pieces out one at a time. It is more controlled than it sounds, but it is not a lift-and-go.
Tiled showers are the dusty version. The tile, the mortar or thinset behind it, and the wire lath all come down to the backer board, and a mortar-bed shower pan over the drain has to be broken out by hand around the drain assembly. We contain the dust as best we can in a closed bathroom, but tile demo makes a mess — that is the nature of it. We pull it down to a clean substrate the next trade can build on, not somewhere in between.
Glass is the calm part. Doors come off their hinges or tracks, frames unscrew from the wall, and frameless panels come down and out in one piece each. Tempered glass is handled carefully and hauled out flat. Once the glass, the walls, and the pan are gone, the shower bay is empty and swept and we are out of the contractor's way.
Pricing
How pricing works.
Shower pricing scales with the type of shower and how much demo it actually takes. A glass door and a lightweight acrylic surround is the lightest version of this job. A full tiled shower — walls down to the backer board plus a mortared pan broken out around the drain — is the heaviest, because tile and mortar are both slow to remove and heavy to haul. A one-piece stall sits in the middle: less dust than tile, but the cutting and the section-by-section carry-out take real time.
Tell us what kind of shower you have and where the bathroom is in the house, or send a few photos, and we give you a real number. We do not quote every shower the same, because a glass-and-acrylic tear-out and a full tile demo are not the same job.
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The honest exceptions
What we won’t take — for this item.
A short, honest list of edge cases we either won’t take or want to discuss before we show up. When in doubt, call us — we’ll walk through it before scheduling.
- Disconnecting, capping, or moving the water supply, valve, or drain — your licensed plumber or electrician handles that before we arrive
- Installing the new shower, pan, valve, or enclosure — we are tear-out and haul only
- Removing structural or load-bearing walls — non-structural demo only
- Removing suspected asbestos-containing material (older mortar beds and some tile) — that requires licensed abatement, not us
Questions
Frequently asked questions about shower removal.
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Common in
Where we haul shower removal most.
We haul shower removal regularly across the Golden Isles, especially in Brunswick, St. Simons Island, Kingsland, Darien, and Jekyll Island.
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Last reviewed: June 25, 2026