My time estimate is 3 days to rip out and install tub, rough plumbing, prepare walls and floor for tiler. (Then we wait for tiler?) Say he comes on day 4, he is expected to take several days at least. Floor can't be walked on for a day, then needs grout, etc. Then vanity install. Then granite install. Granite has a turn around time of a week? Plumbing fixtures, lights, not sure if wainscoting goes up when? I'm figuring 2-3 weeks over which the bath will be unusable and workmen will be coming and going. Maybe we'll be lucky and it will be done in 2 weeks. But there are sometimes delays between sets of workers. I know people who get a kitchen in 2 weeks, and ones who take 6 months. It depends on what you are having done. Also where you live. As soon as anyone comes into my neighborhood their price goes up. Not bragging, we got a smaller house in a nice neighborhood that was run down and have been fixing it up slowly for years. But the contractors all seem to assume we have "money"! LOL! We went with our plumber because we've known him for years and he's very reliable. I'm sure there are people who might be less, and I KNOW there are people who are MORE! If you get a good recommendation, and can see their work, that's what counts.

Thanks for that link. I'm considering getting a free standing tub, if I can find an affordable one. My problem usually is that I have champagne taste and a beer pocketbook. I easily found a tub I love, but it's $7,000. lol Kohler is the company I keep hearing offers high quality fixtures. I will have to spend a lot of time on their site checking out what they have to offer. Maybe I can find something more reasonable.

I just finished a 17K bath remodel and a 70K bath remodel project with two different homeowners. Bath A was a small secondary upstairs bath with cultured marble shower pan (converted a tub shower to shower only) cultured marble shower walls, faux marble porcelain 12x12 floor tiles, decent brand (not import) thermofoil vanity, cultured marble vanity top, simple chrome fixtures, a generic $99 comfort height toilet, and a small glass fronted tower sitting on the counter. The chosen splurges were the glass tower and frameless glass wall that made that tiny bath seem twice as large. Bath B used Calcatta marble tiled floors ($35 a square) with underfloor heating , and grey stained Dynasty cherry vanities that were each 72" long with Kohler's Purist line in the Brushed Gold. Just the Soaking tub and fixtures was over 10K. Don't ask about the vintage chandelier above the tub (vaulted ceiling so enough room to be code compliant). That wasn't even in the budget. She had bought it an estate sale of a prominent Memphian several years ago. Wall hung Veil toilet, and separate bidet in a pretty roomy alcove. It wasn't even a steam shower. Just a 4 x6 "walk through". She gave up on the book matched Calcatta slabs to go on the wall behind the tub as well as the steam shower. It was over 100k with those included in the original quote. My point is that YOU are in control of your budget. And you are in control by getting your wants and expectations under control. The first bathroom could have been done at half the cost if it needed to be. Keeping a tub shower with a shower curtain and plain acrylic paneled walls would have gotten it to 9K just because of the plumbing change costs and the glass. But, the homeowner WANTED those changes. And had the budget to be able to do them by choosing less costly items for the rest of the bath. So she's happy. She didn't compromise. On the other hand, homeowner #2 likes her new bath, but is still vaguely dissatisfied because she gave up that whole wall of marble that she *really* wanted. It was the defining design statement of her inspiration picture. If, as I suggested, she'd chosen a few different fixtures, she would have saved enough to get that feature. She didn't want to compromise on anything. And, because she didn't want to "give up" or "downgrade" anything, she gave up the most obvious chunk of change that was a visible line item in the budget. If you make a list of priorities for your renovation, and figure out the budget on achieving #1 and #2, you can let the lower numbers be "good enough" without forcing the idea of "the perfect" on them. Don't let "the perfect" be the enemy of "the good". Just look at where you are starting and remember that anything new will be an improvement!

Jim May - I wasn’t asking for a licensed contractor to give me an anecdotal response. I’m asking people on Houzz- and was hoping others who had had this work done on their home could chime in. Maybe you don’t understand, but as a first time homeowner who has never planned a remodel before, there’s a lot to learn. I literally had zero idea how much repiping costs. So yes, sometimes rough ballpark numbers are helpful to provide context. For example, a repiping company in my area told me that most whole house repiping jobs they do fall between $4500-$12500. That was helpful for me. I’m obviously not expecting a specific bid for my property on Houzz and will have to get other licensed plumbers out to my house. But what is not it helpful is people leaving snide comments. Maybe next time you could just not respond, or point me in the right direction if you think I’m asking the wrong question.