What it costs: Quoted by what the job actually touches: a valve cartridge, a full valve behind the wall, or a complete fixture set. Access from the back side lowers the price and we check for it first.
Signs you need shower & tub installation
- A tub you never use that could become a larger, safer walk-in shower
- A shower valve that won't hold temperature or scalds when a toilet flushes
- Stepping over a high tub wall has become difficult or unsafe for someone in the home
- Cracked, leaking, or outdated tub and surround that's past repair
- Planning to age in place and wanting a curbless, grab-bar-ready shower
How we handle it
Plan & Rough-In
We confirm the layout, drain location, and valve position, then handle the rough plumbing, moving or resizing the drain and supply lines so the new shower or tub fits your design and drains correctly.
Set Valve & Coordinate Waterproofing
We install a quality pressure-balancing or thermostatic valve and ensure the drain and pan connections are leak-tested before tile, pan, or surround goes in.
Final Set & Test
After the surround is finished we set the trim, fixtures, and glass-ready hardware, then run hot and cold checks to confirm temperature control, drainage, and a watertight finish.
What to know about shower & tub installation in Arizona
A tub-to-shower conversion is more than pulling out a tub and tiling the hole. The tub drain sits in a different spot and at a different size than a shower drain, so converting almost always means reworking the drain and trap below the floor. On a slab-on-grade home, common across the Valley, that can mean cutting and patching concrete to reroute the line. Doing it right means the new shower drains fast and never holds standing water. We plan the drain relocation as part of the rough-in so the finished pan slopes correctly and the trap stays accessible and code-compliant.
Accessibility drives a lot of bathroom remodels in Arizona's big 55-plus communities, and good accessible plumbing is invisible when it's done right. A true curbless shower needs the drain and pan set so water sheets toward the drain with no threshold to trip on, which means precise floor framing and drain height. We also put solid in-wall blocking wherever grab bars might go, because a grab bar screwed into tile and backer board alone will pull right out under real weight. Planning these details before the walls close up costs far less than retrofitting later.
The shower valve is the heart of the system and the part homeowners notice every single day. Arizona's hard water, running 16 to 20 grains across much of the region, scales up valve cartridges and showerheads, which causes the temperature swings and weak flow people usually blame on the city water. We install quality pressure-balancing or thermostatic valves rated for hard-water service. If your home's on hard water, pairing a new shower with a softener stretches the life of the valve way out and keeps the glass and tile from clouding over.
Shower & Tub Installation across Arizona
We provide shower & tub installation throughout the Phoenix metro and Northern Arizona high country: