Ah, I was blown away too.
Bathroom Shower Re-tile Prices
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Interesting, eye opening thread. We have to re-model our master bath (new shower, vanity, tile floor, etc.). I'm sure the cost is probably going to be higher than I thought.
That seems reasonable to me. A neighbor down the street had his bathroom redone and it cost $14,000. My mom had her bathroom redone and it cost around $15,000. She ended up with a new tub, new sinks, new tiling and they had to bust out a wall to make the bathroom larger. All new plumbing fixtures as well.
Thanks for posting those bathroom renovation prices, @quad. It gives me a starting point before we officially solicit bids for our master bath re-do. I'd like to do my own rendering of what I want, using Googled bathroom pics, so the vendors know what I'm looking for, rather than going in blind and letting the vendors propose their own designs. We have to have our master bedroom done, too. More money!
Done, they’re starting tomorrow.
Took the opportunity to shoot some pics from our current spec house build. Guest bath with custom pan.
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HOLY SHIT, if you want to pay for gas I'll rent a car and do it for 1/3 of the price
With materials?
To late, starting demo on bathroom #2 tomorrow.
Hmmmm, guest bathroom, eh? Smooth is heading East next April...
That house better be sold by then. Housing market is booming out here. Exurbs of N Virginia. Horse country. Stupid money.
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I'm so glad you posted this thread Brad. I think I'm staring at a big cost - repairing the damage, and what I want to do. This is a picture of the way my bathroom looks now, except for the mold damage.
I'm quite sure there is water under the garden tub. The window is a bay window. The sheetrock on panel on the right side of the tub is decaying. I want to pull the tub and the shower out - completely. The picture below is how I want it to look except for the two windows. I think the window I have will suffice. I'm afraid of what this is going to cost.
I'm quite sure there is water under the garden tub. The window is a bay window. The sheetrock on panel on the right side of the tub is decaying. I want to pull the tub and the shower out - completely. The picture below is how I want it to look except for the two windows. I think the window I have will suffice. I'm afraid of what this is going to cost.
Yeah, that won't be cheap Mary, but what a difference.
That's a playpen.
Do you like it? I don't use the tub much (not at all lately), but I still want one (selling purposes), but I love that shower. Mine's a little bigger than most right now (I have put a little plastic chair in there so I can sit, but I want a big shower. To be able to hose the tub down and clean it with the wet bath seems a lot easier too. I think the frameless shower glass is going to cost a lot too. Champaign taste with a beer budget.
That would be a huge upgrade--and not cheap! Is the bathroom on a slab? If not, is it one the first floor of the house? Crawl space or basement?
To do a stepless shower, you have to sink the floor below the tile, or raise all of the floor outside of the shower area. This is a moderate to extremely difficult job depending on the location of the bathroom.
We chose to get rid of the big tub in our master bathroom and install a much larger shower. The old shower was 30" x 34". The new shower is 80" x 40". To make potential buyers forget about a tub, we went over the top with the shower: large built in bench, frameless glass, 4 shower operations: rain shower, regular shower, hand shower and 4x body sprays. Each of the 4 different heads can be operated by their own valve (not a diverter valve, so each is independent of each other).
That said it's not cheap. We have ~$2500 in the shower valves and trim alone. The quote for the frameless glass is $3k, etc... I hope the increase in home value is enough to cover the renovation.
I'm doing the work by myself and have a long way to go:
during demo (corner tub used to be under the window)
Progress:
This is when things started getting real. We are relocating everything, so all the supply and drain lines had to be redone which meant the subfloor had to be removed.
I need to upload the newer progress photos. The toilet 'room' has been framed in, the window has been removed and replaced with two windows. The shower pan has been completed and the final plumbing for all of the shower controls has been started. All going well, I hope to start tiling within the next week.
Thanks guys! i have a slab foundation, and only one story. Thank goodness i won't have to move the fixtures. I'm just going to update the cabinet doors in the bathroom and go with new countertops. The house, like Brad's, was built in 1990, and we paid $103,000 for it when we bought it in 1994. I know my tax valuation has more than doubled. Do you think I'm looking at over $20,000 for the bathroom remodel? My kitchen needs remodeling too. LOL I still have formica countertops. I have done some remodeling (master bedroom, outside (hardy plank, pergola), floors, popcorn ceiling removal, etc. Ah, the joys of home ownership. Sorry to hijack your thread Brad.
They just started the demo on bathroom shower #2 Mary, so that one should be done next week then on to the master shower.
Thank God I don't have much to do with the guest bath - maybe buy a new toilet and new countertop. Are you just doing the tile on both? I've done minor overhauls on both. When i bought the house, both bathrooms had carpet and wallpaper. I put in new fixtures, tiled the floors and tore the wallpaper off, textured and painted.
Yeah, everything else has been done inside. I remodeled the kitchen cabinets and tops like 13 years ago along with the bathroom vanities and top too. That only left the showers, and we were sink of the 90's pink tile.
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