Bathroom Remodeling ยท Murrieta
A tract-home bathroom from the late 1990s has a fibreglass tub surround, a cultured marble vanity top and a big flat mirror with a bar of bulbs above it. All of that can go, and the room gets bigger in the process.
Production builders in this valley fitted bathrooms the same way for a decade. A one-piece fibreglass tub and surround in the hall bath. A drop-in tub with a tile deck in the master, often beside a small framed shower. Cultured marble vanity tops with the integrated bowl, oak or maple vanities, a builder mirror glued to the wall and a strip of bulbs over it. Sheet vinyl or 12-inch tile on the floor.
None of it is broken, exactly. It is just dated, and after twenty-five years the caulk has failed, the fibreglass has yellowed and the grout is beyond cleaning. The rooms themselves are reasonably sized and the plumbing is usually in a sensible place, which makes a remodel here mostly a finishes job.
The most requested bathroom project in Murrieta is taking out the tub in the master and building a walk-in tiled shower in its place. The footprint is already there, the drain only moves a short distance, and the result is a shower you can actually stand in. We build it properly: a sloped mortar bed or a preformed pan, a waterproofing membrane behind the tile, a linear or centre drain, and a glass panel or door sized to the opening.
In the hall bath we will usually recommend keeping a tub if there are or will be small children, and replacing the fibreglass surround with tile instead.
Swapping the cultured marble top and oak vanity for a new vanity with a quartz top and an undermount sink changes the room more than any other single item. The glued builder mirror comes off (carefully, and the drywall behind it gets repaired), and is replaced with framed mirrors and proper sconces or a lit mirror.
Bathroom floors in these houses are a good place for a porcelain tile or a waterproof vinyl plank, either of which handles a wet floor better than what was there. We finish with a moisture-resistant paint, a properly sized exhaust fan (the original ones are usually too small for the room), new hardware, and fresh caulk everywhere it belongs.
Tell us about the project and we will come out, measure, and put a written number in your hands.
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Questions
A hall bath refresh, meaning new vanity, tile floor, paint and fixtures, is usually a week. A tub-to-shower conversion with a fully tiled shower runs two to three weeks because waterproofing and tile need cure time between steps. You will always have another bathroom in the house to use.
Fixture swaps, moving a shower drain within the existing footprint, and replacing fans and lights on existing circuits are part of the job. Where a project needs new circuits or a significant plumbing relocation, we tell you up front and bring in the right trade.
For the master, almost always. Tile lets the shower fit the room exactly, is easier to repair, and holds its value. A quality prefab surround is a reasonable, faster choice for a hall or guest bath on a tighter budget, and we will say so if that is the better fit.
Yes. If the shower is being rebuilt anyway, blocking for grab bars goes into the wall at no real extra cost, and a low-curb or curbless entry is straightforward to plan in from the start.
Free in-home estimates. Tell us which bathroom and what is bothering you about it, and we will lay out the options.
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