NYC Bathroom Gut Renovation - Old Tub Out, Stand-Up Shower In

This one was a full gut job. We stripped everything down to the studs - walls, floor, all of it. What you start with on a job like this matters a lot. The existing plumbing was old, worn, and not set up for what the customer wanted. So before anything cosmetic could happen, we had to get the bones right.

Once the walls were open, we could see exactly what we were working with - aging pipes that needed to go. We ran all new copper supply lines, repositioned the connections to fit the new stand-up shower layout, and installed proper shutoff valves at the supply points. That's the kind of residential plumbing work that nobody sees once the walls close up, but it's what makes everything downstream reliable. Skipping that step is how you end up with problems two years later.

With the plumbing roughed in and inspected, we set the shower liner and drain. The liner is what keeps water where it belongs - contained to the shower floor and directed to the drain, not into the subfloor. Getting that right is non-negotiable. From there, the tile work could begin.

The finish tile is a bold marble-look porcelain running floor to ceiling inside the shower, with matching large-format tiles on the bathroom floor. The contrast between where this space started and where it ended up is pretty hard to ignore. New toilet, new vanity, new shower fixture - everything fresh and working off solid new plumbing underneath.

Jobs like this are exactly what we do. When a customer wants to dump an old tub and go with a stand-up shower, it's not just a swap - it's a full replumb, a new drain configuration, and a waterproofing system built from the ground up. We handle all of it, from the first swing of the demo hammer to the final connection.