Where Can I Buy a Complete Ella Walk-In Shower Kit?

Ella walk-in shower kits are purchased through your Ella dealer or the team at (800) 480-6850, and Ella ships its walk-in showers nationwide, so customers across the country can receive one. Before you order, know what complete means: the kit ships with the shower stall, the grab bar set listed for that kit and the drain, while the shower valve, trim, shower head and any hand shower are chosen and bought separately with your plumber. Our guide What Comes in the Box With an Ella Shower Kit, and What You Still Need to Buy lists the carton contents in detail.

How an Ella Shower Kit Is Bought

Ella's Bubbles manufactures luxury walk-in tubs, assembled at the company's facility in Chicago, and also offers walk-in showers for anyone who prefers a shower-based bathing option. Both are shipped nationwide. For pricing, availability and questions about your order, your Ella dealer or the team at (800) 480-6850 is the best resource, as explained in Ella's Bubbles Walk-In Tubs: A General Overview. The installation manual for your kit is published with the product listing and is also available from the team.

What Is in the Box, and What Is Not

• Included: the stall, whether one-piece or multi-piece depending on the model, the grab bars packed loose, and the drain.
• Not included: a shower head, a hand shower, a mixing valve, valve trim or supply plumbing. Nothing in the box detaches for hand-held use.
• The wall arrives solid, with no valve cutout and no preset height or offset. Your plumber marks and cuts the openings on site once the valve is chosen.
• The drain that ships with the kit is connected to the house waste line by your plumber, who also supplies the rough-in piping and fittings.

Before installation day, choose the valve and trim with your plumber and have it on site before the stall is set, buy the shower head and any hand shower with slide bar, confirm the drain position on the stall matches the rough-in in your floor, and agree with your installer that the loose grab bars will be mounted as part of the job. With those fixtures in hand, the kit covers everything else on the shower side.

Adding Walls and Tiles to Finish the Enclosure

Wall coverings are ordered alongside the kit. The 12 inch by 24 inch grout-free shower wall tile, including the Carrara White pattern, is sold by the box, as is the interlocking click tile, which comes in five colors and covers about 16 square feet per box. A larger gray marble panel tile comes in packs of 8 covering about 21 square feet. The SMC subway white wall panels are different, sold as a wall kit rather than by the box. To estimate boxes, measure the height and width of every wall in inches, multiply, add the results, divide by 144 for square feet, then divide by the coverage per box and round up. Staff often suggest about four boxes for a standard tub alcove, but that is a starting point, so measure your own walls. When you ask for pricing, have the tile name and color, your wall measurements and your complete delivery address ready, since shipping is figured from where the boxes are going. The full method is in How to Get Pricing and Order Ella Grout-Free Shower Wall Tiles: Measuring Your Walls and Estimating Boxes.

How This Differs from a Walk-In Tub Order

A walk-in tub ships as a complete, factory-assembled package, and on models that include a faucet the Ella fast-fill faucet with hand shower is in the crate, so the hand shower does not appear as a separate accessory on the paperwork. A shower kit is a stall, so the fixtures are your choice and your purchase. See What Comes With Your Walk-In Tub Order for the tub-side list.

Related Guides

• Installation Instructions and Spec Drawings for One-Piece and Multi-Piece Shower Units
• Installing Ella Shower Bases, the Flexible Shower Dam, and Shower Walls
• Choosing a Shower Valve and Cutting the Valve and Shower-Head Openings

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