What a curbless shower costs in Fairfax and Loudoun (2026)

Families ask for a number before they ask for a shop. Fair. A curbless shower in Fairfax or Loudoun is not one SKU. It is a floor, a drain, a slope, and whatever you do to the rest of the bath. These ranges are ballparks we will stand behind as dinner-table numbers, not bids. Your house will move them.

The ranges

A liner-kit or low-threshold conversion — keep the tub footprint, drop the curb, add a bench and bars — often lands around $6,000–$15,000 when the drain stays put and the walls are not coming off. A tiled curbless stall with a correctly sloped floor, linear drain, and blocking for grab bars is more often $12,000–$28,000 in an existing bath. Move the drain, widen the door, add a comfort-height toilet, and redo the vanity and you are in the $20,000–$45,000 conversation. A full accessible bath as part of a larger Fairfax or Loudoun remodel is how people get to $40,000–$75,000. That last number is already in StayHome’s pitch because a single job covers years of a $99 listing. It is still not your quote.

What actually moves the price

The drain. If it can stay, the floor is cheaper. If it has to move for a true zero-threshold, you are opening the subfloor. The second driver is the floor assembly: a kit tray versus a mud bed or a pre-slope that can take tile. The third is wet work you cannot see — rotten subfloor, no blocking, a vent that is in the way. Labor in this metro is not Ohio labor. Permits in Fairfax County and Loudoun are not a surprise; they are a line item. A CAPS specialist who also does design-build will price a different job than a bath franchise that sells a system.

Kit versus a real floor

A kit can be the right call. Someone coming home from the hospital next Thursday does not need a custom linear drain. They need a curb they can roll or step over and a bar that does not pull out of the drywall. A real curbless floor is for the household that is staying ten more years and does not want the room to look like a clinic. StayHome lists both kinds of shop. We will not tell you the kit is a “luxury conversion.”

How to use this

Pick the Fairfax accessible-bath page if that is the house. Send one quote with the ZIP, whether the tub is a garden tub, and a discharge date if you have one. StayHome gets the lead first and passes it to one specialist. We do not sell the shower. We do not take a cut of the job. Verify license and insurance yourself.