re: Bathroom remodel

I'm currently doing this in my house.

We are using Russell Starkey. I did most of the demo work a couple of months ago and he got started about a month ago. We're waiting on tile and it's coming out nice.

We took our master bathroom, a guest bathroom, our living room, and a bedroom down to studs (the living room and that bedroom were paneling and I wanted drywall like the rest of the house).

The master bath had a huge old whirlpool tub that we removed and made that area into a roughly 4' x 8' walk-in shower (no door) with rain head, handheld, and a regular shower head. Have an 88" double vanity with a top cabinet to the ceiling. We installed quartzite countertops yesterday. Reconfigured the closets a bit. New lighting arrangement, moved one minor wall slightly to accommodate a bigger vanity. We installed some frosted glass French doors between the master bathroom and the master bedroom. New closet doors. Crown molding. And obviously new tile everywhere.

Hall bath, we removed a wall that divided the room and installed a new 60" vanity. Same countertops as master bathroom. Reconfigured electrical in there as well. We kept the old cast iron tub. New tile floors and tub surround going in shortly. Crown molding. New lighting.

Then the bedroom and living room were basically drywall, textures, finish work to accommodate the thicker drywall, crown molding, etc. a little bit of electrical work in the living room to rearrange some switches for future lighting in there.

So far, Starkey is doing an okay job and his subs are pretty decent. He's been good to work with and I'm anal as hell.

But like other posters said, get three bids, compare apples-to-apples and get ready to spend an assload of money.

ETA: Now that the project is done, I'm really disappointed in the quality of the job as it progressed. Oberall the project came out great, but it wasn't because of the oversight of the GC nor the quality of the work of the subs.

If I wasn't very on top of everything and continually keeping an eye on his subs, the job would have come out like shite. I had to go behind almost every sub and fix shite or do things that they neglected. It was an incredibly frustrating process.

I'll be subbing out my own job on my kitchen when I finally get to it.