Bathrooms
A bathroom has to look calm and work hard every day. Our bathroom remodeling in Maryland and Washington, D.C. starts with what keeps water where it belongs, then resolves tile, fixtures, and storage around it, so the room performs for years and not only on the day it's finished.
Approach
Built from the waterproofing out.
The most important parts of a bathroom are the ones you never see again once the tile goes on: the waterproofing membrane, the slope of the shower floor to the drain, the blocking behind the walls for glass and grab bars, and the fan that clears moisture from the room. We settle each of those in design and check them in construction before they are covered.
We look at where water could get in, where it would travel, and what it would damage. Shower edges, wall penetrations, and the connection between the floor and drain need attention before the finishes conceal them. You can learn about iBuild.
The finish work gets the same care. Tile is drawn so cuts land where the eye won't catch them, niches line up with grout joints, and fixtures sit at heights that are comfortable to use. The bathrooms here, in Potomac, Bethesda, Gaithersburg, and Georgetown, were detailed that way.
In Design
Resolved before construction
- Waterproofing
- Membranes, seams, and transitions at the shower, the tub, and the floor.
- Drainage
- Floor slope, drain type and location, and curbed or curbless thresholds.
- Ventilation
- Fan size and placement, and where the moist air is ducted out.
- Tile layout
- Starting lines, cut sizes, niche placement, and how materials meet.
- Fixtures
- Heights, clearances, valve locations, and vanity storage that suits your routine.
What's Included
What a bathroom project includes
You choose tile, stone, fixtures, and lighting with our guidance, and those choices feed straight back into the drawings, so the plumbing is roughed in for the fixtures you actually picked.
Tile, fixtures, and vanities each carry their own allowance, so you can see how one selection moves the budget. We inspect waterproofing and concealed work before covering it and document progress for you.
A bathroom is often part of a larger plan. If yours belongs to a finished lower level, see our Basements work; if it is one of several rooms changing at once, see Whole-Home Remodeling. To talk about your bathroom, start your project.
Questions
Bathroom questions, answered plainly
Size matters less than most people expect. The bigger factors are whether plumbing moves, the shower design, the tile and stone you choose, the fixtures, and the condition of the floor and walls once they are opened. Each one is priced on its own line, so you can see where the money goes.
Often, but it depends on the floor framing and where the drain can go. A curbless shower needs the floor recessed or built up so the slope works, and we confirm that in design before recommending it.
It depends on the scope and the lead times for the tile, glass, and fixtures you select. If it is your only full bathroom, we plan around that from the first conversation, and the schedule is confirmed once selections are made.
Waterproofing, drainage, and ventilation are planned together to manage moisture. Our Warranty & Home Care section explains support after completion.
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