Custom Tile Showers in Greenville, SC

A shower is the hardest-working surface in your home, and the least forgiving of shortcuts. A shower that looks great but was waterproofed poorly will fail, often behind the wall where you can’t see it until there’s real damage. Tile Yoda builds custom showers the right way, from the pan up.

Built to perform, from the pan up

Here’s the part you’ll never see but that matters most: tile and grout aren’t waterproof. Water works through grout lines over time. What actually keeps your walls and subfloor dry is the waterproofing system behind the tile, and we build it to industry standards on every shower.

• A properly sloped pan, built first. Everything above it depends on getting this right.
• Waterproofing carried up the walls and sealed continuously at every corner.
• Niches and benches sloped to shed water, waterproofed around every seam. The leak-prone details, done right.
• Curbless walk-in showers built so the water stays in and the floor sits flush, ideal for a spa look or aging-in-place.
• Large-format, mosaic, marble, and natural-stone tile, with patterns lined up where they should be.

And before a single tile goes on, we flood-test the pan for 24 hours to confirm it actually holds water. That’s the difference between a shower that’s waterproof and one that only looks it: built to protect your home and finished to look like the centerpiece it is.

How much does a tile shower cost?

A 60 by 32 shower averages around $5,200. That covers full waterproofing, a preformed Schluter pan, a FloFX drain kit, 12 by 24 tile on the walls, mosaic tile on the floor, a 6 inch curb with a plank top, color-match caulk at the changes of plane, and epoxy grout.

What moves the price

Tile selection moves it in either direction, because larger and smaller tiles both take more time to set flat. A pattern moves it more than the tile does, since herringbone and basket weave generate a great many cuts, and every one has to be exact with the edges polished so no chips show.

The add-ons are the other half: niches, decorative inlays, benches and heated flooring each add to it, and a curbless entry adds around $3,000 for the framing and materials needed to bring the pan level.

Every shower is different, so that is an estimate rather than a quote. It takes an on-site visit to see what is behind the old one before we can give you a real number, and that visit is free.

What is the best waterproofing for a tile shower?

There is no single product that does it. Waterproofing a shower is a system, and the parts have to work together.

Here is ours. The backer board is GoBoard: a half inch on the walls, and two inch where we are building a bench or any structural fabrication into the shower. The shower floor is not backer board, it is the pan, and ours is a preformed Kerdi tray. We seal the joints and reinforce them with membrane, either Kerdi or FloFX. The drain is a FloFX kit, which works on both a mud bed and a preformed pan. On bathroom floors an uncoupling membrane goes down, DITRA or FloFX.

The joints are the part that matters. A board can be waterproof and the shower still leak, because water finds the seams and the fastener heads, not the middle of a panel. Sealing and reinforcing those is what makes the assembly hold.

Then we flood-test the pan for 24 hours before a tile goes on.

The same build on every shower

Those are the materials we use every time. If you have other preferences we’ll talk them through so you can make an informed decision, and if something would leave you with a shower that will not hold up, we will say so.