Tiling dilemma in Master Shower with 10 Ft ceilings

4 years ago

We are building home that has 10ft ceilings throughout including our master shower. My husband and I are debating about how high to tile the walls in the shower I. It is a 4'x7' shower with a shower head on one end and a 3'6' privacy wall around it with glass above. The wall tile would be on the back wall and one end wall of the shower. The long back wall has a 1' x 4' window sitting between the 8ft and 9ft mark.

The builder said something about creating a header (maybe one foot deep) on the front long wall and the end wall of the shower in order to better support the glass sitting on top of the 3'6" wall. This would put the max height of the shower door at 9ft, but we would need to vent it somehow so the glass surround would go to 8ft, as far as I understand.

Should we tile the back (and end wall) to 8ft so it hits at the bottom edge of the window, 8.5' so it stops half way up the window, 9' to the top edge of the window or all the way to the 10ft ceiling?

With the header being in place to give support to the glass, I am still trying to figure out how it will be vented. We don't want to pay to tile the ceiling.

Thanks in advance for your ideas.

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patrickaz

4 years ago

We have a 10' ceiling in my bathroom and wouldn't have done it any other way. We removed a too small tub and a builder-grade shower surround and made one large shower tiled all the way to the ceiling. IMO taking the tile to the ceiling is the only way to go.

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Mark Bischak, Architect
4 years ago
I would never have a shower with a ten foot ceiling.
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cpartist
4 years ago
I lowered my ceiling in my shower from 10' to 9'. Glad I did.
User
4 years ago
In our 10' high shower, we tiled up to the bottom of the two piece crown...approx. 12" down from the ceiling. Our glass surround is 8' tall.
suezbell
4 years ago
An 8' high -- or 9' high ceiling in the shower would be warmer -- and you could always build a "hidden" storage cabinet over the standard 8' height. Might well come in handy the next time people are hoarding t tissue or just as a place to store seldom used items such as an ice chest.
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BeverlyFLADeziner
4 years ago
All the glass in showers is overrated IMO. Give me tiled walls that are easy to clean and a space that is warm and a simple glass door is more than enough.
suezbell
4 years ago
IF you want to keep the 10' ceiling in the shower, consider stopping one kind of tile you're choosing for the shower at the 8' or 9' mark and then use a solid white tile above that -- and do at least consider creating a an overhanging horizontal trim all around the shower at the 8' or 9' height -- of your preferred shower tile -- so that, if you later deem it necessary or desirable, you could easily add a (glass) ceiling above the shower to hold the heat in winter. If there is a light being installed overhead, then that ceiling likely would need to be glass unless you're just enclosing and wasting the higher space.
chispa
4 years ago
Also have a 10 ft shower. Tiled all the way up and the ceiling too. The shower is enclosed and will have double glass doors that are 8 ft tall.

In my secondary bathrooms I lowered the ceilings to 9 ft in the showers as it just looked better in those smaller bathrooms. In those showers I also tiled all the way to the ceiling and the ceilings.

Some of us live in areas with no winter, so freezing in the shower isn't an issues, specially one that isn't all open.
cpartist
4 years ago
^^^ I still freeze in the shower because of the AC in the house. ;) (We live in the same area.)

Bottom line, there are multiple solutions.
chispa
4 years ago
Oh, I'm chilly in the shower in the rental house that is all open and we have an AC that is all or nothing! New house won't have those issues with enclosed shower and zoned AC.

As a young adult I belonged to old and poorly insulated ski houses in Vermont ... so I'll still argue that you are nowhere close to "freezing" in a shower in Florida! 😄
cpartist
4 years ago
^^^LOL you got me there! Actually I don't freeze in the shower but when I open the door or if I move too far from the water spray.
Kristi Eft
2 years ago
Hi Beth what did you decide to do? Having the exact dilemma.