Bathroom remodeling on Staten Island

A bathroom is a small room with every trade in it, in an order that cannot be rearranged: strip out, waterproofing, plumbing, electrical, tiling, fit out.

The difference out here is that most houses have more than one, so the room can come out in a single continuous run instead of being worked around. That usually makes it faster and always makes it less disruptive.

What is behind the tiling

In houses of this age the common finds are tile fixed straight onto drywall with no membrane behind it, and a subfloor that has taken years of small leaks around the base of the pan.

We take it back to a substrate we can waterproof, apply a membrane across the whole wet area, and tile onto that. It is the part of the job nobody sees and the part that decides whether the room is sound in ten years.

Second floor bathrooms

Most of these rooms sit over a living space rather than over another bathroom. That raises the cost of a leak from an inconvenience to a ceiling, so waterproofing detail at the pan, the curb and the wall junctions is where the care goes.

What drives the cost

Whether the fittings stay where they are, whether the subfloor has to be rebuilt, the tile you choose and how much cutting it needs, and whether anything moves.

Questions people ask