Bathroom Renovation in King County

A bathroom remodel in King County fails or succeeds on what is behind the tile, not on the faucet you picked. Rodrigo's General Contractor rebuilds hall baths, primary baths, and powder rooms for homeowners in Redmond, Bellevue, Kirkland, Kent, Renton, and nearby King County cities. The houses are often 1990s and 2000s stock: a fiberglass tub-shower, a single vanity, a fan that barely moves air, and tile that was set on drywall. In a wet Northwest climate that stack is what starts the soft subfloor. We treat waterproofing as its own step, not as something the tile is supposed to hide.

The process starts with a free measure and a decision about whether the toilet and shower stay put. You get an itemized estimate, then we protect the rest of the house before any demolition. Demo goes back to the studs when the substrate is suspect. Plumbing is roughed to the new locations, the fan is vented outdoors rather than into the attic, and a bonded sheet or liquid waterproofing membrane goes on the shower walls and the pan before a single tile is set. After that come backer, tile, grout, glass, the vanity, and the fixtures. If the only change you need is a new vanity, mirror, and paint, we say so and we do not tear out a shower that is still sound.

For wet areas we install porcelain tile on floors and shower walls, because it handles daily water better than many natural stones. The substrate is cement backer or a foam board made for showers, not paper-faced drywall. Curbless and low-curb pans use a linear or center drain that is sloped in the mortar, not improvised with extra thinset. Glass is tempered, either a panel or a door, and it is ordered after the tile is finished so the opening is the real one. Vanity boxes are plywood. Particleboard swells the first time a supply line weeps. The fan is sized to the room, and fixture valves stay standard rough-in sizes unless you already own something that needs a different body.

A hall bath that keeps the same fixture locations is often two to three weeks on site. A primary bath that moves the shower or the toilet is more often four to six weeks, and longer when a window moves or the subfloor has to be replaced. Glass lead time sits inside that schedule. When the house has more than one bathroom, we keep one of them usable. People hire this crew because the waterproofing is looked at before it is covered, the estimate names the membrane and the tile, and you can walk the job in English or Spanish. The crew is licensed and insured in Washington and based in Redmond, so a mid-job question does not wait on a drive from another county.

See the full list on our services page. We work across King County and in Redmond. When you are ready, request a free on-site estimate.