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You should also check to see if the tiles are still available in the size and colour and pattern you have , otherwise if it is necessary to break some tiles , you'll be looking at a retiling job ( at least the wall the shower is on ).
When I rebuilt my bathroom and installed a big fibreglass bath-shower enclosure - Marbletrend - through the outside wall - too big to get up the hall in through the doors - I rescued the old walls with the old tiles still glued on , and later , got them off and cleaned them up to recycle (took a few days over a long weekend with a hammer and an fishing knife blade modified for the job (ground to form a very flexi - thin chisle - pryoffer - wanted to avoid breaking tiles getting them off (bending them would do that) , and another fishing knife to scrape the glue off (a harder job than I expected) , came up a treat and saved myself a fair bit of doe (antique textured tiles I had were impossible to replace) and I still had one full intact wall with tiles on. They are back on the walls and look great.
I have done all my own wall and floor tiling and plumbing over the last 25 years , done a better better job than than the pros (I had a builder mate who checked out my work when I finished my renovations in 1996 and offered me job).
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