Closing off window

[Anonymous]

Any idea how much we can expect to pay for this? Window is directly inside of a shower and very low, so we want to close it off completely. Our house is concrete block construction (yes, above ground) with brick veneer.

[Anonymous]

Don’t do this. Replace with privacy glass block.

[Anonymous]

We did it -- just put board and tile over the inside. It's still there on the outside, but it's in the backyard of a Cap Hill RH so no one sees it.

Cost the same as tiling any shower

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don’t do this. Replace with privacy glass block.

I don't think the issue is privacy, I think it's water proofing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don’t do this. Replace with privacy glass block.

I don't think the issue is privacy, I think it's water proofing.

OP here - yes, that’s the concern. We already have film on it, privacy is not the issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We did it -- just put board and tile over the inside. It's still there on the outside, but it's in the backyard of a Cap Hill RH so no one sees it.

Cost the same as tiling any shower

Probably this, but it’s hard to say how much it would cost without seeing it. Would the patch have to be tiled? I assume so, since you say it’s low? The question would be whether you can match your tile or if you have to completely retile the shower. If you have extra tile or can match it, it would simply be a matter of putting in a cement board patch, waterproofing it with Schluter or whatever, and tiling the patch (if needed). Not expensive at all. As with pp, you can leave the window on the outside. We had a window like this in our bathroom and we didn’t even realize it until we were doing a renovation and the architect noticed that we had one more window on the outside than we did on the inside.

[Anonymous]

I just put a shower curtain in front of the window. Cheaper than getting rid of it.