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How Long Does A Small, Professional Bathroom Redo Take?

7 years ago

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What's the average for a small 5x8 bathroom total gut and redo to be done professionally?
The bathroom has a tub shower, vanity with single sinkand toilet.
The bath shower will be tiled, as well as some backsplash and of course the floor.

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palimpsest

7 years ago

last modified: 7 years ago

Depending upon where you live you may have control over some of these factors, and this will affect labor pricing.

I had my (only) bathroom in an apartment remodeled from gut to finish in about one week by a specialist in quick turnaround bathrooms for this particular situation. 5x7 three piece bathroom. It was relatively expensive for what it was, but we were only without a toilet for one night, and only without a working shower for under a week, and it was decent quality work.

I am in the process of doing three bathrooms with a very specific set of design parameters, one at a time, and one took over a year, one will take two years, and I don't know about the third. But there is no rush on getting any of these done within a time frame, the specifics of the design drive the time frame. All three of these bathrooms will have extremely high craftsmanship, but are not turning out to be particularly expensive for what they are.

I would say for a typical bath it tends to run about a month start to finish in other projects I have been involved with.

If you want it fast and you want high quality work, the price will be higher.

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Errant_gw
7 years ago
Mine took about 6 months. But I did everything myself, on weekends and evenings after work. With a few major Holidays disrupting my work ;)
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badgergal
7 years ago
Both my son and daughter used the same contractor in their bathroom remodels. Their bathrooms were similar size to yours. They both completely gutted the rooms. My DD has a tiled tub/shower combo, toilet, small vanity and tiled floor. Mys DS changed his tub to just a shower but used a cast iron shower pan with his tiled shower walls. Both of these remodels were completed within 3 weeks of tear out. Materials for both remodels were ordered and on site before the tear out began so they did not waste time waiting for things to arrive.
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7 years ago
Oh how I wish I could get rid of the bathtub! That would leave us 0/3 bathtubs and I'm not going there.
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Mine is the size and configuration of yours and took 4 weeks. However, one week was delay/vacation that wasn't expected because of some minor floor tile issues. Everything moved along quite nicely otherwise. My GC even knocked a few hundred $$ off his final payment because of the delay. I have another bathroom, so it wasn't a big deal.
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Julie B
7 years ago
this was a similar conversation

http://ths.gardenweb.com/discussions/3361744/how-long-should-a-bathroom-remodel-take-5-ft-x-7-ft
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