Tile, fiberglass, or shower panels for a shower?

Seal the grout

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My grout is Snow White and it hardly ever needs to be cleaned. Installing tile is much more costly, especially around a window or doing an insert.
Much more classy though.

go with tile, you will be very happy that you did

you seal the grout once a year and never have issues

anything you put in there will need to be cleaned no matter what

if you pick a dark color grout such as gray then you dont have to clean it as often as you would with a white grout

Don’t live by anyone else’s rules or paradigms-

Tankini Woman is clearly aroused, you can DO this!

Cultured marble, the stone filled type, is very popular right now. It's like the panels that were popular in the 80s and 90s, but used granite mixed with the resin rather than a paint and swirl like back in the day. They are simple to keep clean and less likely to leak than tile.

Out of those, definitely go tile. I just did subway tile in mine with an inlay for shampoo and whatnot. Matches the cast iron tub perfectly

Tile/grout in a shower sucks donkey balls. Sealing grout will only last 3-5 months and if you do small tiles on the floor of the shower you will immediately regret it when you are sealing the grout.

I much prefer nice white fiberglass shower inserts as they look nice and clean super easy. If you just love the look of tile, I'd recommend looking at a compromise and do large tiles (less grout needed therefore less to seal) with a fiberglass floor/basin. I had this setup before and it was easy to keep clean as tile walls don't need re-sealing that often.

Cultured marble should be less than a tile shower. Most of the work in a tile shower is in the floor (pan). Novice people would probably be okay doing walls, but do not do the floors. The marble pans are easy, I actually do quite a few marbella pans and tile walls to get a custom look, but low maintenance, and near leak proof. Stone style marbella showers usually run about 2500-3500 depending on size.

Tile looks best initially. Cleaning later on is a bitch and leaks will eventually occur at some point. Cultured marble is easiest.