If you have trouble finding one, the following companies offer acrylic shower stalls: Aquatic Bath, 800-945-2726; Maax, 877-438-6229; and Zoe Industries, 888-287-1757.

Q. We’re planning a very large custom shower stall. Since we have the room, I’d like to have two separate shower mixing valves installed on opposite walls, with two rain-style shower heads.

If you still want to install a classy-looking tiled-floor shower stall yourself, you will have to understand a few simple facts about ceramic tile and the concrete slab floor below it.

If you want to install a shower over a concrete floor, a fiberglass shower stall will work just fine. Ideally, you’ll already have a drain roughed in, with the pipe sticking a few inches above ...

I'll need to install a totally new shower stall complete with new plumbing and fixtures. My old valve did both water flow and temperature mixing. Is that still possible? — Jim, Michigan.

I would imagine the same is true of installing shower units. To facilitate easy removal, Dan sliced up the one-unit built-in-seat shower stall I put in 26 years ago.