Hello all,
The shower in my master suite is a walk-in, and the three walls and shower pan seem all right, but for the entry what they did seems really boneheaded to me, a person who knows nothing about making showers. Instead of having the fourth "wall" be the entry with a curb, they nailed boards to the studs on either side of the entrance and then used DRYWALL without even any tiling to narrow the entrance, all to fit a shower door that I guess they got on the cheap. And I only got to notice this when a piece of ceiling in my first floor living room fell down when eating breakfast. Quite annoying.
It seems that at the very least they did the inside portion of the fourth wall with backer board, but the curb is just drywall over 2x4s and what may be an asphalt-coated "vapor barrier"? Seems wrong. My current plan is to at the very least tear down and rebuild the curb using backer board over RedGard, but I have to decide on whether or not it's a good idea to rebuild the side walls using backer board (and NOT having gaps near the floor like they have), or tear down the side walls and buy a wider shower door for the more sensible opening.
Any advice? I'm pretty new to this DIY thing. Thanks for reading!