Marble-Look Shower with Glass Enclosure in Palos Heights
About This Project
A full bathroom remodel in a Palos Heights home with a beige marble-look large-format porcelain tile throughout — walls, shower surround, and floor. The tile is a 24x48 format with a soft veining pattern, set floor-to-ceiling in the shower and continued on the main bathroom walls to create a seamless, spa-like feel.
The glass enclosure framing required the tile installation to be completed and fully cured before the frameless glass panels were measured and fabricated. This is standard practice for frameless glass — the glass is custom-cut to the exact finished tile dimensions, so any tile adjustment after fabrication means the glass won't fit. We completed the tile work to precise dimensions and gave the glass contractor confirmed measurements.
Floor-to-ceiling large-format tile in a shower requires a very flat substrate. We checked and corrected the wall framing before installing cement board, and we used a leveling clip system throughout the installation to keep lippage within the ANSI tolerance for large tile. In Palos Heights, where homeowners tend to choose large-format tile more often, this is work we do regularly.
What We Did
- Wall framing flatness check and correction, cement board, sheet waterproof membrane
- 24x48 beige marble-look tile floor-to-ceiling with leveling clip system
- Matching floor tile with linear drain, sloped to drain at 1/4 inch per foot
- Provided confirmed tile dimensions to glass contractor for frameless enclosure fabrication
Project Details
| Service | Bathroom & Shower Tile |
|---|---|
| Area | Palos Heights |
| Materials | 24x48 beige marble-look porcelain, leveling clip system, sheet-applied waterproof membrane |
| Scope | Residential — full bathroom tile, floor-to-ceiling shower |
| Timeline | Multi-day install |
