Walk-In Showers in New Miami, OH

New Miami (ZIP 45011) is a small village on the Great Miami River just north of Hamilton, an old mill community with closely spaced older homes.

In these compact houses the bathroom sits directly above the kitchen more often than not, and that is the worst place for a slow leak. It does not announce itself in the bathroom: it appears as a stain on a kitchen ceiling months later, by which point the joists have been wet the whole time and the cabinets below may have gone. It is why the waterproofing here is not the place to save money, and why we flood-test the pan before a single tile goes on it.