Just wondered if any of you are familiar with these shower systems. I've posted here before about wanting to re-do a tiny shower and enlarge it to make it handicap accesible. I live in a small town of about 20,000 and it's almost IMPOSSIBLE to get somone to do work for you...and the next biggest town is 45 miles away and experiencing a building boom...so hard to get someone to come here.

http://www.showerbase2.com/Tile_Basin_PF.html

http://www.showerbase2.com/Qwick_Slope.html

I thought if I could get a plumber to move the john and put in the basin for the shower, using the existing shower plumbing, I could tile everything.

THANKS

When my mother had her stroke a few years ago, I replaced her old bathtub with one of the one piece shower units and it worked very well, (also doing all the work myself.) She was not a very large woman, though and the small seat was barely adequate, but it served its purpose. Later, when we sold her house, the gentleman who bought it was in a wheelchair and the stall worked well for him also, though the metal chair was quite rough on the stall finish.

I've never used one of those pre-fab pans, but one of my first impressions is that they are quite pricey. Best of luck to you. I hope things work out.

If your looking to use a pre-fab shower base I suggest you look into the Schluter system
http://www.schluter.com/ their web site shows how to install a shower pan system and prep it to accept tile. It is completely water proof and works great. Even if you did not want to use the foam base that they have, you can purchase pre-packaged "mud" from any local tile company, not big box stores and construct the pan using the schluter kirdi to water proof it rather then the traditional lead pan they use.
I have done many of these and although a little time consuming, they come out great.
For the shower edge that you step over it can be constructed with lumber then covered with cement board.
The benefit of building your own pan and then tiling it is the drain can stay where it is and you pitch the floor to the drain location. You simply need to purchase the Schluter drain system. so it will connect to the water proofing membrane that they sell. The plumber then only has to cut the old drain out and reconnect the new. Fairly simple project.