Our downtown Camas home is nearly 100 years old — can it still get a curbless shower?

Yes, though it typically means opening the floor and reworking the joists in that bay to create the recess a curbless pan needs, since older Camas homes weren't framed with that dip built in. We assess the framing first so you know the real scope before committing to a layout.

Is a curbless shower easier to add in a newer Prune Hill or Grass Valley home?

Generally, yes — newer floor systems up on the hill give us more predictable framing to recess into, so the structural work is usually more contained than in a century-old downtown home. The waterproofing and slope work to the drain is the same either way; it's the framing side that differs.

Curbless Showers · Camas, WA

Curbless Showers in Camas, Washington

Curbless Showers for Camas homes

Camas splits between downtown mill-era homes from the early 1900s with tight layouts sitting on original crawlspace framing, and newer hillside subdivisions on Prune Hill and Grass Valley with more current floor systems. In a downtown Camas bungalow, going curbless means dropping the floor joists in the shower's footprint and rebuilding a properly sloped, waterproofed recess below the surrounding subfloor — real structural work, not just a tile swap. Up on Prune Hill or in Grass Valley, the newer construction gives us cleaner floor framing to recess into, so the same flush entry comes together with less demolition. Either way, the goal is a shower that reads as one continuous floor with the rest of the bathroom, which fits how much of Camas's appeal is walkable, single-level living near Lacamas Lake. We plan the floor recess and drain slope before any tile gets chosen.

What's included

Curbless Shower Installation

Structural floor recess built and sloped to a linear drain
Flush, zero-threshold entry with no curb or lip to step over
Full waterproofing membrane across the entire recessed pan
Frameless glass panels sized to an open, continuous sightline
Large-format tile laid to keep grout lines minimal at the transition

Modern curbless walk-in shower with a zero-threshold entry flush to the bathroom floor and a linear drain — Curbless Showers in Camas, Washington

What affects cost in Camas

Honest pricing, no guesswork

The age of the floor framing is the biggest driver here — an older downtown Camas home typically needs the joist bay reworked and re-supported before the pan goes in, while a newer Prune Hill or Grass Valley build can often be planned around existing framing. Washington sales tax on labor and materials (roughly 8.6–8.7% in Clark County) is worth budgeting into either scenario.

We don't publish one-size-fits-all prices. After a free in-home consultation we give you a clear, fixed quote in writing — no surprise change orders once the project is underway.

Camas questions, answered

Frequently asked

Our downtown Camas home is nearly 100 years old — can it still get a curbless shower?: Yes, though it typically means opening the floor and reworking the joists in that bay to create the recess a curbless pan needs, since older Camas homes weren't framed with that dip built in. We assess the framing first so you know the real scope before committing to a layout.
Is a curbless shower easier to add in a newer Prune Hill or Grass Valley home?: Generally, yes — newer floor systems up on the hill give us more predictable framing to recess into, so the structural work is usually more contained than in a century-old downtown home. The waterproofing and slope work to the drain is the same either way; it's the framing side that differs.

Curbless Showers in Camas, done right

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