What Wears Out in a Parkville Shower
Parkville is not a 1950s tile-and-mortar town. The typical shower here is a 1990s to 2010s builder install, and those tend to fail in predictable ways:
- One-piece fiberglass or acrylic units. Fine for the first decade, then the floor flexes, the finish dulls, and cracks show up around the drain. A fiberglass shower replacement is the usual starting point in the newer subdivisions.
- Builder tile over greenboard. Some tile showers from that era were set on moisture-resistant drywall with no waterproof membrane behind the tile. Once water gets through the grout, it sits in the wall.
- Calcium scale. Water around here is hard enough to etch glass, clog showerheads, and stain cultured marble. Scale is the most common complaint we hear about showers that are otherwise fine.
- Corner garden tubs. The jetted tub in the primary bath was a selling point twenty years ago. Many of them now hold towels. That footprint is often the best spot in the house for a walk-in shower.
- Framed sliding shower doors. The aluminum tracks corrode, the rollers fail, and they are the first thing that makes a bathroom look dated.
In the older ranches and split-levels near downtown and Park University, the older problems show up too: galvanized supply, mortar-set tile, and no exhaust fan. We check for all of it at the consultation.
