First Place Home Improvement First Place Home ImprovementCustom Tile Work 704-305-2851
Rowan, Cabarrus and nearby counties, NC

Custom tile showers
and bathrooms
in Kannapolis, NC

When the home improvement conversations start, you can say, “I’ve got a guy!” Owner Darrell Price personally oversees every project, from the tear-out to the last detail.

Kannapolis, Concord, Salisbury, Landis, China Grove, Cleveland, Cooleemee, Woodleaf, Linwood, Albemarle and Barium Springs, NC.

First Place Home Improvement — Custom Tile Work Darrell Price, owner of First Place Home Improvement, in a company shirt
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Towns in Rowan, Cabarrus and nearby counties
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The build, start to finish

From the studs to the glass

Every shower we build goes together the same way. The animation cuts one open and puts it back together in the order we work it, and the photographs next to it are a shower we finished.

A cut-away of a finished tile shower, the wall layers showing at the cut edges: tile over waterproofed cement board, a river-pebble floor and a glass panel.
Step 1, framing and the niche. Step 2, plastic, then the pan membrane. Step 3, cement board and waterproofing. Step 4, the cement bed, floated to the drain. Step 5, tile, pebble floor and glass.
A finished bathroom: a walk-in tile shower with a glass panel on a tiled half-wall, and a wood vanity with a round mirror across the room.A finished walk-in tile shower with a herringbone tile back wall, a glass panel set on a tiled half-wall, and a river-pebble floor behind a low tiled curb.Inside a finished tile shower: a herringbone tile wall, a tiled bench, a hand shower on a slide bar, and a river-pebble floor falling to a square drain.
A shower we finished, from three angles.

The work, before and after

BeforeBefore: the original fiberglass tub and surround with a curtain rod
AfterAfter: a walk-in tile shower with a glass door, a pebble floor and a mosaic niche band

Tub-to-shower conversion

Tile
Large-format wall tile, pebble floor and a mosaic niche band
BeforeBefore: a one-piece tub surround and patterned vinyl sheet flooring
AfterAfter: white subway tile up the tub walls with a tiled niche, over a slate-look tile floor

Bathroom floor and shower walls

Tile
White subway tile walls, slate-look floor tile, tiled niche

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The craft

What goes in behind the tile

The part that decides whether your shower is still dry in fifteen years is the part you never see again: the poured base, the fall to the drain, the waterproofing, the board behind it. Most tile contractors never show you any of it. We will.

See how we build a tile shower, step by step
One of our showers mid-build: a 40 mil rubber pan liner laid over the shower floor and turned up the walls, with the drain set through it, before the cement base is poured

Tile work we do

We specialize in remodeling.

Custom tile showers

We pour the base, shape the fall by hand, waterproof it, then set the tile.

Bathrooms

We handle floors, walls, surrounds and the details around them.

Kitchens

We cut backsplashes and kitchen floors to the run of the room.

Tile floors

We set porcelain, ceramic and stone flat and straight.

Tub-to-shower conversions

The tub comes out, and we put a proper tiled shower in.

Entries, hearths and feature walls

The smaller pieces of tile work we don't skip.

Luxury vinyl plank floors

We lay LVP as well as tile, so the floor can suit the room and the budget.

More on custom tile work, bathroom remodeling and kitchen backsplashes and tile floors.

What it costs and how long it takes

The size of the shower, the tile you pick and what has to come out first all move the number. Below is what changes the price and how the week goes, day by day.

What a tile shower costs

Towns we work in Rowan, Cabarrus and nearby counties

We work out of Kannapolis and cover the towns around it — if your town isn't on the list below, call and ask, we may still cover it.

KannapolisConcordSalisburyLandisChina GroveClevelandCooleemeeWoodleafLinwoodAlbemarleBarium Springs
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