How to Remodel a Bathroom - Step by Step
The Steps On How To Remodel A Bathroom Which Expert Remodeling Contractors Use To Transform Bathrooms
Knowing what is happening during your bathroom remodeling project helps soften the impact and stress that a project of this caliber can bring.
In this article, we provide an outline of how to remodel a bathroom.
How To Remodel A Bathroom In 12 Steps
1. Design Your Bathroom
With the help of your contractor or designer, take the first step to bring your vision to life and create a design for your new bathroom. It will be a bathroom you can picture yourself getting ready in the morning and relaxing after a long day.
2. Prep The Work Area
Your contractor will need to prepare the space for demolition which may include setting up dust barriers with air scrubbers, delivering materials to the job site, and protecting flooring and walls in the rest of the home.
3. Demolition
Your contractor will need to take apart your current bathroom. This can include removing and disposing of the vanities, the flooring, fixtures, tile and more.
4. Rough Work
This is updating the electrical and plumbing for older bathrooms or moving around the fixtures or lights.
5. Insulation and Drywall
Replacing the walls can make your bathroom more comfortable improving temperature control, noise reduction, and even making more space. This can make your bathroom experience more comfortable.
6. Painting
Now your contractor will come in to paint your walls the color you want.
7. Tile Installation
Now we’re getting into the fun part of remodeling a bathroom. Your contractor is going to implement the design elements selected and tile the shower area and wherever else you want tiles.
8. Plumbing And Electrical
Now your contractor will install the plumbing and electrical finish items like shower fixtures, toilets and vanity lights.
9. Glassdoor Installation
Installing the shower doors is an exciting part of the remodel. The shower is the cornerstone of the bathroom and seeing it completed always sends shivers down my spine.
10. Vanities and Trim
Your contractor will add in some of the items that make a bathroom a bathroom.
11. Countertops
Your contractor will attach the countertops to the vanities. The sink and faucet are installed.
12. Finishing Touches
These are the small details your contractor will take care of to make sure your bathroom looks and operates wonderfully like a place for the toilet paper and the vanity mirror.
What Main Reasons Can Change The Timeline of a Bathroom Remodel?
Materials - If you don’t want tiles or paint on your walls, or a glass-door shower, or anything else, your bathroom remodeling steps can change.
Damages - If we find any water or other damage, we need to fix it before moving forward. We’ll talk to you before doing anything.
Scope of work - The list above is for a full bathroom remodel. You may only want to do part of the remodel or complete it in phases.
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