I am 6'4" and can almost see over my shower door and part of my head is over the top of the shower itself. I want to replace the shower stall but not sure if I can do it myself. Here are a few questions I have. 1. is there a standard location of the drain or will I have to relocate it? 2. It has pex piping so I will have to extend it or put new lines in from the closest joint? 3. Is there a standard shower stall insert or will I have to measure? 4. What would it cost to have a shower installed if I rip out the old one and supply the shower? I am in South Carolina if that affects cost. 5. Is this a DIY job or better to leave it to the professionals? 6. What other considerations do I need to account for? Thanks Wade

I'm hearing/reading two schools of thought, one is that one cold night can freeze pipes. The other is that it takes several days where the temperature never gets above freezing. Above ground I use the pex tubing and that seems to be good. The main line comes into the (uninsulated) basement where copper pipes are. I have heat tape wrapped to those pipes but nothing to insulate the heatwrap from the cold so I assume the heat just blows away. The pipes are, for the most part, in the center along the basement ceiling. In the past the basement's been ok, it's been the upper floors that have burst (hence the upgrade to pex). This is in a rental by the way where its not always occupied and I'm rarely there. So far I've just gone to the upper floor and run both the hot and cold water for a few minutes anytime the temperature's been cold but if only a few hours can freeze the pipes then maybe I have to insulate them, not a task I look forward to due to the messiness of how the pipes are structured.