Bathroom remodel

Get ready to spend about tree fiddy.

In the middle of master remodel right now.

Hope you like spending money.........

Tom Ashley with Expand Inc. Does great work. Would highly recommend.

just don't do like EVERYONE is with the walk around shower and prison-like white tiles. Install butcher block counters and tile and be the owner of an awesome 80s retro bath.

The best thing I did when we remodeled the bathroom is put in a 7' x 8' walk in shower with no door to have to clean. Just walk in. Figure it'll come in handy when I'm old and decrepit in my wheelchair. All tile, even the ceiling. I wouldn't worry much with body sprays. We put in body sprays, handheld, and rain can in the center of the ceiling. We NEVER use the body sprays. Also got a gas tankless water heater. It'll run nonstop for 59 minutes before cutting off. Go with Delta or Brizo faucets.

Acadian Kitchen and Bath if you have the scratch. Not in the remote neighborhood of cheap but they have been worth it so far for the service and expertise. Of course I am only 30% done with the remodel. Get back to me when they finish for the full story.

Give me a call. Custome shower install is what you after. 225 235 1561 or 225 274 5429. 20 yrs plus experience

I did mine for about $3500

Demo $500(I did myself)

Freestanding claw-foot with tub mount shower-package $1500(worth it, Vintagetub.com...you can still do another shower if you want)

floor tile= $500(Bath cost part of kitchen+bath Install)

pedestal sink =$150
Toilet=$150
Install Bath+sink+toilet=$700(re-pipe drain)

Walls=$13 for 4 lnft= ~$400
Paint=$60
Molding=$60

Quoted :$2500 for shower build and tiling.....$700-$1200 for frameless shower door....so the "shower" will cost you $4 grand regardless


Stephen Thompson contracting ...recommended by my mom's friend.

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.