Four jobs in one room
A bathroom remodel is four jobs in one room: the shower, the floor, the walls and the vanity. One crew does every part of the work on one schedule, and you make one call for all four.
Around Hot Springs and Hot Springs Village we finish each of the four the same way. Tile goes up level over a pan checked for fall, and the grout stays tight in the corners. The glass door hangs square in its opening, and the vanity gets set level before the top goes on. You judge a bathroom remodeling job on that standard, because it is the part of the room you see.
A guest bath down to the joists
One guest bath came down to the floor joists. The old shower pan was gone and the cast iron drain stood exposed. Tile still stood on the walls above the open floor.
It went back as a walk-in shower tiled in marble-look porcelain. A pebble mosaic band and a niche break up the wall. Black valve trim and a frameless glass door on black barn hardware finish it. The door shuts flush because somebody framed the opening square for it before the tile went up.
A room taken back that far shows the joists and the drain before the new pan goes in. A sound subfloor then gives the new pan a rigid base.
The floor under the old shower
A second bathroom started as a dated room with a beige tiled shower behind a framed sliding door and a tan vinyl floor. With the toilet out, a strip of vinyl came up in front of the shower curb. Underneath it the subfloor had gone black with rot, and the closet flange stood open.
Water that gets past a shower pan rots the subfloor under it. Our crew looks for that rot while the floor is open, so the price can still take the repair in. A soft floor adds subfloor replacement to the job, and new sheets give the new floor a rigid base. LVP or tile then goes down over sound wood, with a transition strip at the doorway. The flooring crew and the shower crew are the same crew, which keeps that repair inside one job.
The walls and the vanity
The walls around a wet area take drywall repair with a texture matched to the room. The crew cuts the paint to a clean line against the ceiling.
The vanity comes last. In a third bathroom a dark vanity arrived wrapped in plastic, with its black marble top and undermount sink not yet plumbed. The crew set it level and plumbed it. Then a mirrored medicine cabinet and an LED light bar went up above it. That room finished with a white shower surround behind sliding glass doors and gray LVP on the floor.
What changes the job
Six things change the size of a bathroom remodel, and we look at all of them while we stand in the room with you.
- The size of the shower sets the tile count and the hours on the walls.
- Pulling a tub out opens the wall and the floor behind it.
- A drain that stays put keeps your floor closed, and a drain that moves opens it.
- The subfloor under the old floor sets whether new sheets go down first.
- A molded base has a price of its own, and a floated pan adds hours under the tile.
- Small tile takes more hours on the wall than large tile.
You choose the tile and the vanity. The crew checks the subfloor and the drain. One written number follows the visit, and it holds unless you change the job.
Living in the house while we work
You stay in the house for the whole job. The bathroom goes out of use the day the pan comes out, and it comes back into use the day the glass goes in. We tell you how long that takes once we have seen the room.
See the guest bath shower and the new vanity in the before and after gallery, or ask for a free estimate and we come look at your bathroom. You can also call 501-276-4770.
Every job on this site was finished by the same crew around Hot Springs and Hot Springs Village. Read more about bathroom remodels, look at the finished work, or ask us about your own house.
