Bathroom Remodeling
Primary suites, hall baths and powder rooms across Sacramento, Placer and El Dorado counties, drawn and built by the same team.
A small room with everything in it
A bathroom is the densest room in a house. Plumbing supply and waste, ventilation, electrical, waterproofing, tile, glass and cabinetry all have to land inside a space that is often smaller than a parking spot, and every one of them has to be right before the next one goes in. That is why bathrooms reward planning far more than they reward improvisation.
It is also why what is behind the tile matters more than the tile. Pan slope, waterproofing membrane, backing for the grab bar or the bench, blocking for the glass. None of it is visible when the job is finished and all of it decides whether the room is still sound in fifteen years.
Layout comes before finishes
The most common bathroom remodel we do is not a like-for-like replacement. It is a room where the tub is taking up a third of the floor and never gets used, or the vanity is a single sink where two people are getting ready at the same time, or the toilet is the first thing you see through an open door.
Moving a fixture is a real cost, especially over a slab, so it is worth deciding early rather than late. We will show you what the layout change actually buys you and what it costs, and if the honest answer is that the existing layout is fine and the money is better spent on finishes, we will tell you that too.
What the work covers
- Design and drafting, plus the permit set when fixtures move or the room changes shape
- Demolition and disposal, with containment and floor protection through the house
- Framing changes: relocated walls, new blocking, niches and benches
- Plumbing: supply and waste for relocated fixtures, valves, and the new fixtures themselves
- Electrical: dedicated circuits, GFCI protection, lighting and heated floor circuits
- Ventilation, including exhaust fan tie-ins
- Waterproofing and shower pan work before any tile goes down
- Tile and solid surface, including slab walls and heated floors
- Vanity cabinetry and countertops
- Frameless shower glass, measured after the tile is set
- Paint, accessories and hardware
- Post-construction clean and a walkthrough punch list
Where the money goes
Two bathrooms of identical size can be very different jobs. A hall bath with the fixtures staying put is mostly a finish job. A primary suite with the shower moved, a slab feature wall, a heated floor and frameless glass is a structural, plumbing and tile job that happens to have a bathroom in it.
Neither is wrong. But they are not the same number, and knowing which one you are describing is the first thing we work out with you.
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Common questions
How long is a bathroom out of service?
Longer than most people expect, because the sequence cannot be compressed. Waterproofing has to cure before tile, tile has to be set and grouted before the glass can even be measured, and the glass itself is ordered to the finished opening. If it is the only bathroom in the house, tell us at the walkthrough and we will plan the sequence around that.
Can you add a bathroom where there is not one now?
Often, yes. It comes down to where the existing waste line runs and what is under the floor. On a raised foundation there is usually a route. On a slab it means cutting and patching concrete, which is not a reason to rule it out but is a real line item. We work that out before pricing it.
Is a heated floor worth doing?
It is one of the few upgrades clients consistently say they would pay for again, and the tile work is happening anyway, so the incremental cost is the mat and a dedicated circuit rather than a second job later. If you are on the fence, decide before the tile is set. Retrofitting means tearing the floor out.
Do you do accessible and aging-in-place bathrooms?
Yes. Curbless showers, blocking for grab bars, wider door openings, comfort-height fixtures and bench seats. The blocking in particular is worth doing even when you do not want the grab bars yet, because it costs almost nothing while the wall is open and a great deal once it is closed.
How much does a bathroom remodel cost?
It ranges widely, because a fixtures-in-place refresh and a reconfigured primary suite are genuinely different projects. We offer a free consultation where we look at the room, talk through what you want, and give you a budget range grounded in what our comparable past projects actually cost.
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