A couple of posters have mentioned hard water. If this is a new experience for you, I would strongly recommend that you consider installing a water softener. When we built our home, we had to put in a well (our first time with one.) The water was tested for all the usual suspects, except for hardness. It made us weep to see all our beautiful Kohler faucets turn cruddy before our eyes, not to mention taking lousy showers, making lousy coffee, and doing lousy laundry. The softener became a necessity and not a "nice-to-have". Of course, hardness is all relative in that some folks have just a little hardness that can be tolerated okay while others can have very hard water. Yes, it's yet another appliance to maintain, but that hard water negatively affects so many of your home's systems.

Once you have the steam shower, you'll want to use it every morning. Consider a re-design of the master bath. Our glass door is so easy to keep clean. We use Dow 'scrubbing bubbles' on it once a week and that's it. It's so nice to walk in to a warmed up shower. On days that I don't steam....walking in the shower isn't nearly as pleasant. It's great, too, for warming yourself up before bedtime...especially on chilly February nights. I just couldn't see myself using it so much if the steam shower was in the mudroom bath. My shower is in the 'bath gallery' under the top "traditional cherry with steam shower". Kompy

Thank you so much for all your help. Dekeoboe, thanks for sharing your experience. Approximately how much slope do you have? Palimpsest, thank you very much for your detailed information. I measured the curb. The outside height is 4 7/8", the inside is 3.5", and the width is 4 3/8". So is it still a little more than 1/16" of an drop? The shower door installer will put a vinyl strip at the bottom of the frameless glass door. They are just afraid it might not be enough. It's a very small shower stall of only 33" x 33". That's why I concerned about its potential of leaking underneath the vinyl strip beneath the door if water is too much. The shower head is not on the opposite wall of the shower doors (two panels). If it's just 1/16" drop and requires quite much work, may it fine without redoing it? Please see the attached picture. The 23" bullnoses on the edge need to be special ordered in Porcelanosa. It takes about 3-4 business days and costs $50 per piece. Really appreciate all your help. This post was edited by janesylvia on Wed, May 8, 13 at 13:17

Thanks! The bathroom was just finished in April. Here's a link to my reveal on the bathrooms forum. I didn't list all of the details of fixtures and such but I guess I should have. Maybe I'll update it. The shower is in an alcove. My contractor made a custom pan so we could make it as large as possible. I think it is vinyl. I gained a few inches that way since I didn't have to use a standard size. The shower fixture is a Hansgrohe raindance shower pipe. I purchased on Amazon. My shower door was custom from a local shower door company. The floor tile is a 1"x2" Calacatta Gold marble herringbone from a local tile store. The subway and trim pieces are American Olean starting line white from Lowes. This was the only white subway I found that was a warm white instead of a bright white. I thought the color worked better with my floor. The grout is antique white on the floor and white on the walls. I haven't had a problem keeping it clean, but it is still fairly new. Here is a link that might be useful: Bath Reveal