Acrylic Bathroom Systems by Liberty
The Acrylic Bathroom Remodel Advantage
Why install a Liberty Home Solution’s acrylic walk-in shower, bathtub shower combo, bathtub, safety bathtub or safety shower? DIY is a very popular aspect of home ownership both in Springfield Missouri and the rest of our country. However, removing and installing a new bathtub or shower yourself is a time-consuming and difficult process. This process if done incorrectly can cause significant damage to flooring, walls, plumbing and even electrical. When you hire Liberty, we will install a beautiful new solid acrylic bathroom system usually in a couple of days.
A bathroom remodel will require multiple skill sets. The first thing that Liberty Home Solutions does is the demolition of your bathroom. While other bathroom remodel companies will paint, refinish or overlay your existing surface, this is not a true remodel. Please tab through this section to learn more about our acrylic bathroom remodel process.
We tear the tub or shower base out of the bathroom, along with the wall surrounds. This exposes the framing materials; sub floor, stud wall and insulation to the exterior of the home. Often, tile showers or tile wall surrounds develop cracks in the grout lines. Allowing water to slowly creep behind the tile and eventually start damaging the material behind. The water leaks will develop harmful mold and will rot any wood, studs or sub-floor.
After the bathroom demo what we’re left with is the subfloor and an open stud wall. Our installers inspect all the existing material for any rot, mold or other sings of damage, including termite damage. If the subfloor’s floor’s floor’s rotten underneath, we’ll cut it out and put new ¾ inch subfloor in so that we end up with it strong, solid sub floor to work on. If there’s mold under there we spray Microban. Microban is a safe non-toxic mold, bacteria killer that’s amazing. It will kill mold so it will not continue growing behind your new acrylic bathroom system.
Next we install greenboard on the stud walls. Greenboard is a water-resistant wall board, which will go on three sides of a shower or four depending on what kind of shower we are installing. This is secured to the stud walls using fastening screws. Then we go back up with what they call greenboard, which is water resistant wall board, around the three sides of the shower or four; depending on what kind of shower it is. That is all screwed on.
