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Shower Installation in Ontario

Showers fail from the inside out. The tile can look fine while the wall behind it quietly rots from a failed corner seal or a cracked grout line that's been letting water past for years. So a proper shower installation is mostly about what you'll never see again after day three: solid backing, a waterproof membrane, a correctly sloped base, and a pressure-balanced valve set at the right depth.

You've got three broad routes. A prefab acrylic base and wall kit is the quickest and most forgiving — clean, practical, done in a couple of days. A fully tiled shower with a custom base is the premium version: any size, any tile, built exactly to your space. A walk-in or low-threshold shower splits the difference and is the smart choice for anyone thinking ten years ahead.

Replacements are the everyday version of this job — pulling out a leaking or dated shower, fixing whatever the leak has been doing to the framing, and building the new one properly. In-wall valve and drain work is licensed plumbing in Ontario, and it's included in how we quote, not an asterisk.

What this covers

  • Shower replacement — out with the old unit, in with the new
  • Prefab base and wall-kit installations
  • Fully tiled custom showers with sloped bases and niches
  • Walk-in and low-threshold conversions
  • Waterproofing membranes in the entire wet zone
  • Valve, drain and supply work by licensed plumbers
  • Glass panels and doors — framed, semi-frameless, frameless
  • Repair of framing or subfloor damage found during tear-out
  • Grouting, silicone and final sealing

What affects the price

  • Tiled custom versus prefab kit — the biggest single price fork
  • Size, and whether the new shower's footprint matches the old one
  • Valve replacement and any supply rerouting inside the wall
  • What the tear-out reveals — long-leaking showers usually leave homework
  • Glass: a frameless door is a different budget than a curtain rod
  • Tile choice and the details — niches, benches, linear drains
  • Accessibility features like grab-bar blocking and low thresholds

Every home is different, so we don’t publish flat prices — the quote is free and based on your actual job.

Shower Installation near you

We take quote requests across Ontario. Local pages:

TorontoOttawaMississaugaBramptonCaledonHamiltonVaughanMarkhamRichmond HillAuroraNewmarketGeorginaWhitchurch-StouffvilleKingOakvilleBurlingtonMiltonHalton HillsOshawaWhitbyAjaxPickeringClaringtonKitchenerWaterlooCambridgeLondonBarrieInnisfilBradford West GwillimburyCollingwoodSt. CatharinesNiagara FallsWellandGrimsbyFort ErieGuelphWindsorKingstonGreater SudburyPeterboroughThunder BayBrantfordBellevilleSarniaWoodstockStratfordOrangevilleCornwallNorth BaySault Ste. MarieChatham-KentOrilliaWasaga BeachMidlandNew TecumsethSt. ThomasKawartha LakesCobourgPort HopePrince Edward CountyQuinte WestLeamingtonOwen SoundBracebridgeHuntsvilleNiagara-on-the-LakeTimminsBrockville

Common questions

How long does a shower replacement take?
A prefab swap is usually two to three days. A custom tiled shower runs closer to a week — waterproofing and mortar need cure time you can't cheat, and silicone wants a day before the first shower. If it's the only shower in the house, tell us; the schedule gets built around that.
Tile or acrylic — which is better?
Acrylic is cheaper, faster, and easy to keep clean; its look is what it is. Tile is any design you want and reads as premium, but it lives or dies by the waterproofing underneath and asks for grout upkeep over the years. Both are good showers when installed right — it's budget and taste, not right and wrong.
My shower leaks into the room below. Is that a repair or a replacement?
It depends where it's failing. A worn door seal or a failed silicone joint is a repair. Water tracking through the base or from behind the tile usually means the waterproofing is done, and rebuilding is more honest than chasing leaks one at a time. Photos of the ceiling stain and the shower itself get us most of the way to an answer.
Can you make the shower bigger than the old one?
Often, especially when a seldom-used tub next door gives up its space. Moving or upsizing the drain and rerouting supply lines is licensed plumbing work and adds scope, but a 32-inch stall becoming a five-foot walk-in changes how the whole bathroom lives.
Do you install the glass too?
We do — measured after the tile is in, because glass is cut to the finished opening, not the plan. Frameless panels look best on dead-level curbs, which is one more reason the base work earlier in the job matters.

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