Here’s the cost breakdown in brief: You can get one of the Kohler Memoirs basic 72″ x 27-3/4″ neo angle walk in shower stalls that include the glass door and costs about $700. You will still need the bottom tray and walls and all the fixtures. Then there’s the Dreamline Corner View Shower that costs about $650, but when you add the tray and the side panels the total unit actually costs over $1,000. Other options that include just parts of the items needed for a full unit cost about the same, around $1,000 to $1,500 when you count the sides, the doors, the pan and do not count the showerhead or taps.

Then compare with an Oceana Jetted Shower Cabin that is high tech and all inclusive. It’s a cabin unit, everything comes with this system including a fiberglass reinforced bottom floor tray that also has leveling legs to ensure the unit sits steady, an acrylic back wall, 6 body jets, a hand shower, thermostatic valve control, a little seat, little compartments for shampoo and things and even a mirror as well as the main tempered glass doors. The complete unit ready to hook up and take a shower costs about $1,900 (depends on sale prices that fluctuate from dealer to dealer). But you get everything.

So let’s just say that you need between $1,500 to $2,000 to have a fiberglass reinforced modular unit hat’s a complete walk in shower stall, or something similar buying the pieces separately.

Now let’s look at the cost of custom walk in showers. You need the doors which start around $200 to $700. You need a floor tray and the walls. Will you use tile or stone or a panel that’s modular? Let’s say you need panels for at least one or two sides. You need the showerhead, the taps, the fixtures. When all the costs are added up….you need about the same to create a custom design as you do to buy a complete modular unit or buy separate pieces. It’s almost impossible to create a custom walkin shower or buy a shower stall or enclosure that will cost less than about $1,000 and that will not include the plumber, the drainage, any tile or other accents.