Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 9 hours ago
This video is a part of our basement remodeling series where we use some tricks to manage budget, create a ONE OF ONE design. and provide our customer with dependable quality. In this video you will see ZERO:
- Cement board, including lugging, cutting, installing; dust
- Tapes, mesh or surfaces that need to be skimmed
- Thinset, buckets, trowels that need to be stored, cleaned and stored and cleaned a gain
- Tile, tile saw, or tile saw overspray
- Grout, grout sponges
- Time that could be spent doing other things
What you will see is BUDGET, QUALITY and TIME overlap in a Venn Diagram of awesomeness for shower walls that integrate easily with a shower base or bathtub flange, won't leak, and that you don't have to finish if you don't want to. But can if you do.
METHOD
- We use 1-inch Acre by Modern-Mill deck boards and 4x8-foot 3/4-inch sheets along with our favorite Spax finish screws to create a cozy shower surround we install in hours, not days for a fraction of what a tile surround would cost.
- We use a track saw to break down the sheets
- We feverishly mark out possible plumbing interactions and stay well away from them with fasteners
- We install a back-up moisture barriers behind the Acre panels to deal with water or steam that might get into the wall system
- We use scraps to make a cool shower caddy
RESULT
- A fast-to-install, high-quality, good looking shower system than CAN be painted but does not HAVE to be painted
- A 1-of-2 or more if you go this route
- A DIY-able system
- For contractors or DIYers
- Something that can be installed in hours, not days
- Basement bathroom budget friendly
Presented by: Mark Clement
Shot by: John Welsh
Edited by: John Welsh
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This video is a part of our basement remodeling series where we use some tricks to manage budget, create a ONE OF ONE design. and provide our customer with dependable quality. In this video you will see ZERO:
- Cement board, including lugging, cutting, installing; dust
- Tapes, mesh or surfaces that need to be skimmed
- Thinset, buckets, trowels that need to be stored, cleaned and stored and cleaned a gain
- Tile, tile saw, or tile saw overspray
- Grout, grout sponges
- Time that could be spent doing other things
What you will see is BUDGET, QUALITY and TIME overlap in a Venn Diagram of awesomeness for shower walls that integrate easily with a shower base or bathtub flange, won't leak, and that you don't have to finish if you don't want to. But can if you do.
METHOD
- We use 1-inch Acre by Modern-Mill deck boards and 4x8-foot 3/4-inch sheets along with our favorite Spax finish screws to create a cozy shower surround we install in hours, not days for a fraction of what a tile surround would cost.
- We use a track saw to break down the sheets
- We feverishly mark out possible plumbing interactions and stay well away from them with fasteners
- We install a back-up moisture barriers behind the Acre panels to deal with water or steam that might get into the wall system
- We use scraps to make a cool shower caddy
RESULT
- A fast-to-install, high-quality, good looking shower system than CAN be painted but does not HAVE to be painted
- A 1-of-2 or more if you go this route
- A DIY-able system
- For contractors or DIYers
- Something that can be installed in hours, not days
- Basement bathroom budget friendly
Presented by: Mark Clement
Shot by: John Welsh
Edited by: John Welsh
👉 For more DIY Tips and how-to, subscribe to MyFixitUpLife: youtube.com/user/myfixituplife?sub_confirmation=1
👉 To learn more about MyFixitUpLife with Mark & Theresa: http://linktr.ee/myfixituplife
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