Shower Removal in Brunswick, GA

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.

A shower tear-out here is usually one stage of a bigger bathroom remodel, and the house shapes the day as much as the shower does. In an older home around the Fourth Street area, the bathroom may sit at the top of a stair built tighter than anything sold today — one more reason a one-piece stall gets cut into sections where it stands. Whether the house is in Glynnvilla or anywhere else in the county, the plan starts the same way: a photo of the shower and the hallway outside it, a word about which floor it’s on, and we’ll give you the number before anything is cut.